Linguapedia:About

Linguapedia is an open-source wiki for the historical linguistics community. It is a combination of an etymological dictionary and historical linguistics encyclopedia. All linguists are welcome to contribute, since this site is meant to be a lab where users can develop their hypotheses.

History

Linguapedia was founded in November 2020 by User:Lingua as a supplement to the various existing online entries and datasets. As no wiki for comparative word histories and etymologies was available at the time, Linguapedia was founded to fill that gap.

What is Linguapedia?

The entries on Linguapedia are mostly those of word histories and language descriptions. Entries (or articles) on linguist biographies, linguistics departments, universities, research institutes, and research projects are also welcome. Linguapedia also includes word lists and other open-source linguistic materials.

Why Linguapedia?

This wiki for the historical linguistics community is comparable to AntWiki, Palmpedia, and other niche scientific wikis.

How Linguapedia is different from Wikipedia and Wiktionary:

• Entries on biological species have lengthy word histories and lexical data for little-known languages from around the world. This is not accepted on either Wikipedia (due to various policies such WP:NOTDIC and WP:UNDUE) or Wiktionary (where all multilingual entries generally must have ISO codes).
• There is no "Wikipedia (or Linguapedia) is not a dictionary" policy, where long word lists and comparative tables in an article would get deleted. On the contrary, we encourage, and need, such content.
• No strict notability and conflict of interest policies as on Wikipedia, as long as the topic or subject is related to linguistics. Linguistics students are more than welcome to write biographies about themselves.
• Original research is an integral part of this wiki. Users are welcome to publish their own data and hypotheses.

Hosting

• This site is a wiki hosted by Miraheze.

Copyright

• All content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.
• Do not copy and paste long blocks of paragraphs/prose from other web pages onto this wiki without permission.

Biography policy

• No libel, attacks, or personal gossip.
• Subjects of biographies have the right to request updates and deletions.

Contact

The site admin can be contacted at User talk:Lingua.