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On 31 March 2004, [[Sonja Lang]] asked on the Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Toki Pona language edition of Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014972.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Adding a new language|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Sonja Lang|date=2004-03-31|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-September/017330.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Re: Gothic Wikipedia|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Andre Engels|date=2004-09-19|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> On 4 April, an officiala '''Toki Pona Wikipedia''' was created under the domainat tp.wikipedia.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015010.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Brion Vibber|date=2003-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> The choice of this subdomain was debated.; Otherother proposals included <code>art-toki-pona</code>, <ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015019.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Timwi|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VFRKVVPE4BNOCANDFWY3ABOXNTWD42TU/|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Karl Eichwalder|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> <code>art-tp</code>, <code>x-toki-pona</code>,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015031.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Evan Prodromou|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> and <code>x-tp</code>.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015024.html|title=<nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki> Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Ralesk Ne'vennoyx|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> There were disputes about the address and about the existence of this edition of Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/thread.html#start|title=April 2004 Archives by thread|website=lists.wikimedia.org|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-May/thread.html|title=May 2004 Archives by thread|website=lists.wikimedia.org|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref>

On 16 November 2004, Wikipedia cofounder {{w|Jimbo Wales}} closed the Toki Pona Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C#Closed_wikipedia(s)|title=User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive C {{sect}} Closed wikipedia(s)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122013238/http://tokipona.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/lipu_lawa|title={{tok|lipu lawa}}|website={{tok|lipu Wikipesija}}|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Klingon_Wikipedia|title=History of the Klingon Wikipedia|website=Wikimedia}}</ref> It later{{citation needed|reason=when?|date=2024-03-11}} moved to {{w|Wikicities}}<ref group="lower-alpha">Later known as Wikia and Fandom</ref> before being independently hosted as {{tp|[[lipu Wikipesija]]}}. By 2010, "[a]fter being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia ha[d] been completely removed."<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News/2010#March_2010</ref><ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Toki_Pona_Wikimedia_projects</ref>

On 8 April 2002, Chuckwith Smiththe createdEnglish anWikipedia {{w|Englishat only about 30&nbsp;000 articles,<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Wikipedia}} Statistics English]. Wikimedia. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> Chuck Smith created the article, "Toki Pona language".<ref>Chuck Smith (8 April 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=13 Toki Pona - Wikipedia article]. ''[[Toki Pona Forums]]''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> Wikipedia then had only about 30&nbsp;000 articles.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Wikipedia Statistics English]. Wikimedia. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>

In 2008, "Toki Pona" became a {{w|Project:Good articles/Language and literature|language and literature good article}}, albeit through a vague review.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA1</ref> In 2010, it was delisted due to unreferenced sections, inconsistent citation formatting, overreliance on primary sources and [[personal website]]s, and excess detail. The reassessment's only reply agreed, "As a major writer of the article, &hellip; it doesn't feel particularly {{abbr|GA|good article}} to me. More fun than encyclopedic."<ref name=":12">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA2</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sonjaaa&oldid=371038617#GA_reassessment_of_Toki_Pona</ref>

Two more deletion proposals failed in 2012<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(3rd_nomination)</ref> and 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(4th_nomination)|title=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (4th nomination)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref><ref name="wikipedia-deletion-forums">{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2203|title=toki pona article on wikipedia up for deletion|website=[[Toki Pona Forums]]|name={{tok|jan Mato}}|username=janMato|date=2013-03-16|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref>

On 30 JanuaryIn 2020, the English Wikipedia's article on Toki Pona was translated onto Slovak Wikipedia and assigneddesignated a good article status there.<ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975108&oldid=6394863</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Zoznam_dobr%C3%BDch_%C4%8Dl%C3%A1nkov&diff=6975154&oldid=6876304</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975264&oldid=6975190</ref>

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