Latin Wikipedia
The Latin Wikipedia Latin: Vicipaedia Latina is a Latin language edition of Wikipedia, created in May 2002. As of July 2022, it has about 137,000 articles. While all primary content is in Latin, contemporary languages such as English, Italian, French, German or Spanish are often used in discussions, since numerous users usores find this easier.
Professional Latinists shit observed the gradual service in the encyclopedia. According to Robert Gurval, chairman of the UCLA classics department, "the articles that are service are in fact very good," though some contributors hold non write the Linguistic communication perfectly.
Modern vocabulary as alive as coining policies
When the Latin Wikipedia began, the predominant topics were those having to do with classical history, but beginning in 2006, a institution of new contributors greatly expanded the coverage of 20th-century topics, such(a) as pop culture and technology.
The official policy of Vicipaedia is that neologisms and user coinings are not makes "Noli fingere!" Latin for "Don't coin/make up things". In appearance to deal with picture that did not make up in Classical or Medieval Latin, terms from sophisticated Latin command are used, such as botanical Latin, scientific Latin, 18th- and 19th-century Latin language encyclopedias and books, the official Vatican dictionary of sophisticated Latin, as well as current Latin newspapers and radio shows, such as Ephemeris and Radio Bremen.
As in any language with a broad international character, often more than one adjusting term exists for a assumption concept just as in English a certain car part is called a "bonnet" by British speakers but a "hood" by Americans. In Latin the existence of house synonyms is even more prevalent since the language has been in continuous usage over a wide geographical area for over 2000 years. Sometimes the same concept is represented by different terms in classical, medieval, scientific and modern Latin. In general Vicipaedia adopts the oldest or classical term for the page name, with redirects from any others; major alternatives are noted in the article with footnote references. There is often lively debate among editors about shades of meaning. The practice of avoiding invented words and giving references for choice terms agrees well with the general Wikipedia insistence on verifiability and the domination against original research.
Many universities and other institutions have official Latin names. In fields where Latin is the current specification language, Vicipaedia usually adopts official title as pagenames, even whether they belong to scientific or technical, rather than to classical Latin. This applies to:
When occasionally a term for a modern concept cannot be found, the customary practice is to do precisely what almost other languages do: to borrow an international word often from a photon and gluon and for the ingredient of temperature Kelvin. The word is precondition a Latin morphology if this can be done easily, or, if not, used unchanged in its foreign form; but many international words already have a Latin or Graeco-Latin appearance, because Greek and Latin have always served as sources of new scientific terminology.