Thread:User talk:Siebrand/Additional version of Nynorsk (nn)?/reply (10)

I think there are three things to consider:
 * 1) Following standards (almost unconditionally) – not a issue here since we are in practise following IETF language tags =~ BCP47
 * 2) Being fair – we already seem to have be-tarask, which is not just legacy
 * 3) Do what makes sense – Do the benefits of localisation overweight the effort creating it. In other words are people going to use the localisation and how different is it compared to other supported languages.

I think you have already explained the differences quite well. You have also indicated that there are some høgnorsk articles and there is one wiki in høgnorsk. Could you elaborate how widespread the use is, and is it limited only to certain contexts? For example how many høgnorsk articles there are compared to number of all articles.

We have previously rejected requests for piglatin, lolcat and pirate English, since they are obviously just made for fun and they have no value or benefit outside the few, limited contexts. Same goes for ancient greek, which is essentially a dead language, but for which huge body of texts exists and people still learn it. However it is essentially stopped developing since it is no longer used as language of daily communication. Attempts to revitalize it are to my knowledge purely academical or for fun like the examples mentioned above.