Old English Wikipedia

The Old English () is the version of in the Old English language. Since January 2010, the has had more than 2,000 articles. As of 8 July 2010, it was the 159th largest by number of articles.
It is remarkable as being one of only a handful of ancient language versions of , with Old English having no known native speakers. It is one of only two ancient Germanic language s (the other being the Gothic version), and is by far the larger of the two, with Gothic having only several hundred articles.
User contributions, quality, and style
There is a high concentration of edits between only a handful of users, with only a small amount outside of said edits being made by other users. Many neologisms are in use on the , with a neologism project well under way (neologisms or borrowings are usually first proposed here), and grammatical errors are not rare. A common problem is lack of citation.
There are often controversies on the over various issues, such as whether to introduce a neologism or a borrowing; which neologisms are to be used; writing style (whether or not to use yogh and wynn or g and w - this conflict has been resolved with a multi-page-version system, e.g. the same article has two separate versions - one written using g and w, and another with yogh and wynn; whether or not to mark palatalization); or occasionally whether or not to adopt a modern, non-Old English notation style, such as the word-order, listing style used in writing addresses in many modern languages to show location (e.g. "Auckland, New Zealand" as opposed to "Auckland in New Zealand").
Many of the articles are simply translated versions of other languages', especially Modern English's, articles; some articles are only partly translated, and still have a large amount of non-Old English text. Both Old English and Modern English are used on the talk pages, with Modern English usually being used when neologisms or borrowings are being discussed.
Inter-language link
The Old English inter-language link is non-standard in that it is the name of the language in a language other than the language itself (e.g. the German version of has an inter-Wiki link called "Deutsch" because that is how German is called in the German language - the same goes for almost every other inter-Wiki version); the inter-Wiki link in question is called "Anglo-Saxon", whereas the native term would be "Englisc" or "Ænglisc". This is an error that has not yet been fixed.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu