`  == Re: Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Wiktionary ==  Good evening.  A little over a month ago I started work on reactivating the Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Wiktionary.  As a result, a call has gone out to the members of the WikiProject Melanesia group for a startup group to get together to oversee the TPI reactivation project.  If you have an interest in joining and participating in this group (as I think you very well might have), would you mind going to the main page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Melanesia and sign on as another one of the participants in the WikiProject?   I think you might be interested in the fact that one of the proposals (mine) for the TPI Wikipedia is that the Wiki be bilingual, that is, with a close English translation provided for each of the Tok Pisin articles, and vice-versa.   I've also suggested that the TPI Wiktionary be bilingual, i.e., providing a page for an English equivalent of a Tok Pisin word, and again vice-versa.  I've tested the bilingual concept in the TPI Wikipedia at ``Papua Niugini`` and a subpage with a test ``translation`` at ``Papua Niugini/English``.  I also tested the concept in the TPI Wiktionary for the TP word ``wanbel``, which has a link to the English translation ``(to) agree``.  There's a table in the def. for ``wanbel`` that has translations of the term in several other languages.  I've put links in two of the translations (German and French) which link directly to the page in those languages where the equivalent of ``wanbel`` is given.   I think you'll agree that the close translation concept makes the Wikis exceptionally useful as learning documents for both native and non-native speakers of Tok Pisin.  Bilinguality gives both sides an opportunity to write about Melanesian and related subjects, and gives both sides an excellent opportunity to learn Tok Pisin and English by having ``Rosetta stones`` as translation guides.  If you then go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Melanesia/Tok Pisin you'll find the purpose of the reactivation of the TPI Wikis given on  that subpage.  The subpage has been created for general discussions about Tok Pisin and the reactivation projects.  I've created two additional subpages under the ``Tok Pisin`` subpage, one for discussions about the TPI Wikipedia, and another for discussions about the TPI Wiktionary.  I'm hopeful that together we can form a group of interested authors/editors/tech specialist that will make the TPI Wikipedia and Wiktionary two very useful regional Internet references, i.e., that the primary focus of the Wikis will be PNG and the surrounding regions, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim countries.  I believe the TPI Wikipedia should be encyclopedic, but focus closely on the flora, fauna, people and institutions of Melanesia, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim rather than the world in general, as is being done in all the other international Wikipedias.  Well, rather long-winded of me, but that's how I am.  So anyway, I do hope that youl join our ``TPI reactivation`` group.  But if not, I hope that, given your interest in Melanesia, that you will at least sign up as a participant in the WikiProject Melanesia group.  Thanks/very best regards.   (Ken) `