Editing ConScript Unicode Registry (section)

==History==
The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project<ref name="Scott">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Michael Lee |title=Programming Language Pragmatics |date=2009 |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann |isbn=978-0-12-374514-9 |pages=295 |edition=3rd |quote=It also sets aside a "private use area" for such artificial [constructed] languages as Klingon, Tengwar, and Cirth [Tolkien Elvish]. Allocation of this private space is coordinated by a volunteer organization known as the ConScript Unicode Registry.}}</ref> that was founded by [[John Woldemar Cowan|John Cowan]]<ref name="CSUR">{{cite web |last1=Cowan |first1=John |last2=Everson |first2=Michael |title=ConScript Unicode Registry |url=https://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ |website=ConScript Unicode Registry |publisher=Evertype |access-date=2023-08-09 |date=2023-04-27 |quote=The Registry is the joint project of John Cowan and Michael Everson. John originated the Registry and did most of the work of collecting information and writing preliminary proposals; Michael has been reviewing and revising these proposals into final registrations.}}</ref> in the early 1990s. It is a joint project of John Cowan and Michael Everson.<ref name="CSUR"/>

Historically, it was hosted on both Cowan and Everson's websites (branded as the North American and European sites, respectively); in 2002, the site was transitioned to be hosted exclusively on Everson's site.<ref name="CSUR v3.0 to 3.1">{{cite web |title=Wayback Machine comparison (2002-01-13 vs 2002-06-15) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20020113110730/20020615183822/http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ |website=ConScript Unicode Registry}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cowan |first1=John |title=John Cowan |url=http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/ |publisher=Chester County InterLink |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020724150643/http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/ |archive-date=2002-07-24}}</ref>

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Since 2008, the ConScript Unicode Registry has been largely unmaintained; in 2008, Cowan explained that Everson was too busy to continue maintaining the project.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cowan |first1=John |title=Re: CSUR help |url=https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/everson.shtml |website=KreativeKorp |date=2008-02-04}}</ref> Due to this inactivity, Rebecca Bettencourt founded the '''Under-ConScript Unicode Registry''', aiming to coordinate code points for constructed languages until they can be formally added to the ConScript Unicode Registry.<ref name="ucsur">{{cite web |last1=Bettencourt |first1=Rebecca G. |title=Under-ConScript Unicode Registry |url=http://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718002340/http://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/ |archive-date=2015-07-18 |access-date=2015-07-21}}</ref> Scripts added to the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry include [[Sitelen Pona]] (for [[Toki Pona]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=jan Ke Tami |date=2022-09-01 |title=nasin Juniko ala la, nasin UCSUR li lon |url=https://liputenpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/0015moku_1.pdf |journal=Lipu Tenpo |language=Toki Pona |issue=moku |pages=2–3 |issn=2752-4639}}</ref> and [[Cirth]].<ref name="unifoundry" />