Saturday, September 29, 2007

Vicipaedia

At school, I study the ancient language of Latin. On the web, Wikipedia and other wikis are catching on and becoming very popular. Wikipedia is made in many languages, even ones that aren't spoken. Latin is one of the languages available on Wikipedia, and they call it "Vicipaedia." The articles aren't all about Roman History, they have many different articles about topics in history or things that are happening today. They have an article about the internet http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet and one of Caesar http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Iulius_Caesar. One interesting fact: All of wikipedia's different language sites are translated by people, not computers. That means that somebody has studied Latin long enough to write about the internet in this arcane language! This is a very interesting find on the web, and could help me with my studies.

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