Lesson plan
Langmaker
Langmaker is a website run by Jeffrey Henning that acts as a database of conlangs, neographies, and other resources related to conlanging and conworlding. Prominent articles and the conlang directory were collected published by Yannia Press as Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs, with an introduction by David J. Peterson. As of June 4, 2009, the site was offline. An unknown source took control of the website, hosting malware. After the takeover of the website, the owner regained control in 2022 making the site available through a Tor network endpoint until 2023. As of 2025 a copy of the site is hosted as a GitHub Pages site.
Article summary
Langmaker is a website run by Jeffrey Henning that acts as a database of conlangs, neographies, and other resources related to conlanging and conworlding. Prominent articles and the conlang directory were collected published by Yannia Press as Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs, with an introduction by David J. Peterson. As of June 4, 2009, the site was offline. An unknown source took control of the website, hosting malware. After the takeover of the website, the owner regained control in 2022 making the site available through a Tor network endpoint until 2023. As of 2025 a copy of the site is hosted as a GitHub Pages site.
Key claims
- publication date: 1995 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the publication date is "1995". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369858689
Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.