Lingua Latina

Sections of Wikipedia now appear in about 250 languages, serving communities across the world, making it one of the world’s most translated documents. However, one project serves a language most people think of as "dead": Vicipaedia. Contributors to the site have translated more than 15,000 Wikipedia entries into Latin! The Wall Street Journal offers a profile of Vicipaedia’s editors, who admit that the project is “a slightly odd thing to do in this century”. The site’s content is eclectic as most readers and contributors use Vicipaedia to test their language skills, rather than to conduct real research. There’s plenty of debate about neologisms as editors can’t seem to agree on the proper Latin word for “computer”! [Spotted in The Wired Campus]