Geban:Jay B.
Hi, please feel free to post any questions to me regarding the construction of the Wikipedia for Volapük. I'll try to do my best to get to answer as quickly as I can and as best I can. Cheers, Jay B.
QUESTIONS TO JAY B. ABOUT THE VOLAPUK WIKIPEDIA
Glidis!
I'm afraid that I don't know enough Volapük to understand the naming question. What do "Vokiped" and "Vükiped" actually mean? You say that "vü-" is "inter-", and "kiped" is "maintenance", or "preservation". So, "inter-maintenance", or "inter-preservation"...? I don't get what either of them is trying to say, I'm afraid! The name "Wikipedia" comes from "wiki" (or "WikiWiki") plus "-pedia" (from "encyclopedia"), showing that it is a wiki encyclopaedia. I don't suppose there is a Volapük word for "wiki", is there? But what about "encyclopaedia" - do you know what that would be? There should probably be something in the name to suggest that it is an encyclopaedia, I think. :)
If there is no word for "wiki" in Volapük, could we just coin one? We could ask Brian Bishop - he's in charge, right? :) We could say that "viki" means "wiki", and then call this the "viki-"... something. Something derived from whatever "encyclopaedia" is, maybe...
Okay, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but those are my ideas...
Good luck and eveything, anyway!
Glidis, o Oliver!
Thanks for your question. Vü is Volapük for "Inter-, Among" which sounds very close to VEE, as the first syllable of Wiki is pronounced in the original Hawaiian (in which it has the meaning of "quick, fast", therefore "Wiki-wiki!". It so happens that Kiped means "the action of maintaining". It seemed logical to me that: 1. Vükiped sounds close to Wikipedia, and 2. It has the bonus of having a an implied meaning that the effort to maintain this Wikipedia is shared among a group of folks.
There is a word for "fast, quick" in Volapük of course, "Vifik" and for Encyclopedia it's a toss either "Sikloped" or "Züklopäod".
No, we couldn't likely just coin a term like "viki" for one thing no Volapük roots end in vowels and the ending -ik is usually reserved for adjectives, the root "Vik" is already tied in with "Vikod" for Victory.
Yes, it would be interesting to get the current Cifal's view on this.
Again, thanks for your ideas on this, they are very welcome and I'm glad you posted the question.
Flenöfiko, Jay B.