Latin Wikipedia update
Manchester Guardian "In praise of ... Latin.":Such advantages might (just about) justify eccentric efforts to make Latin - long extolled as offering a window on the past - a living tongue for the future. Through Vicipaedia, an offshoot of the web's superb free encylopaedia that was launched last month, the ancient language is being used to read and write about not just Julius Caesar but also Britney Spears. Even if lingua-franca status is unlikely to be regained, the venture deserves success if it gets people reading the classics again.
Obligatory journalistic erratum: Vicipaedia was founded in 2002, not "last month." (Who was it who was just telling me that the most common error in news reports was the assumption that "If I haven't heard about it it must be new"?) I dare say this error is more glaring than the misunderstanding about computatrum.
Within the blogosphere, the original WSJ story has been picked up by Internal Monologue, and Paleojudaica. The former is the blog of one of my long-time friends, so is not surprising. The latter is one of my favorite blogs, but I have very little contact with the blogger at all: his mention of the story was a complete coincidence.
If you know of any other journals (by which I mean both newspapers and blogs) that have brought up the Vicipaedia Latina story, please do let me know.
Obligatory journalistic erratum: Vicipaedia was founded in 2002, not "last month." (Who was it who was just telling me that the most common error in news reports was the assumption that "If I haven't heard about it it must be new"?) I dare say this error is more glaring than the misunderstanding about computatrum.
Within the blogosphere, the original WSJ story has been picked up by Internal Monologue, and Paleojudaica. The former is the blog of one of my long-time friends, so is not surprising. The latter is one of my favorite blogs, but I have very little contact with the blogger at all: his mention of the story was a complete coincidence.
If you know of any other journals (by which I mean both newspapers and blogs) that have brought up the Vicipaedia Latina story, please do let me know.