toki, ale o!
As we find ourselves in the first half of December, let’s catch up with more than a month of cool new happenings from the Toki Pona community!
Working together
- The Wikimedia Foundation has approved the creation of a Toki Pona Wikipedia! It is already full of content, as it is actually a continuation of wikipesija.org, which had been hosted independently since 2021.
- The lipu tenpo magazine has released its newest issue — nanpa lon! Read about the Strasbourg meetup, the many ways to express “child”, why restrictive abortion laws are bad, and more!
- The VR Chat community uploaded several scary fireside stories for Halloween, told by jan Tekinowi, mun Kekan San, waso Seko, len Ke Tami, jan Mikiko, pan Pake, and jan Netakin!
Videos about real life
- jan Polijan wants you to take care of yourself in the newest vlog!
- jan Ilasa and waso laso made two vlogs: talking about trees and things and carving pumpkins!
- jan Apike vlogged about life updates and makeup!
- The CG Toki Pona Club performed a skit about an invisible bench!
- voytxt recreated “toki pona lon ma kasi” for its 10 year anniversary!
- jan Kililaso told a story about forming rival groups in primary school!
- jan Koselu and jan Wakon made a commercial to promote their Toki Pona presentation on Futrołajki furry convention in Poland!
Video stories & readings
- jan Kekan San uploaded a narrated translation of The Red Mask by Edgar Allan Poe for Halloween!
- moku ala Samo translated the short poem The First Thing You Should Know by Joshua Seigal!
- jan Aselo translated and read the poem Cut While Shaving by Charles Bukowski, and Wanderer’s Nightsong II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!
- jan Aselo read and analyzed jan Kapilu’s poem lon ma tomo pi tenpo suli!
- jan Tene uploaded a short overview of Plato’s philosophy!
- If you like testing out waters and very casually presenting something, there’s a regular event on the 4th Sunday of the month 7pm UTC on the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server!
Games
- jan Mija translated the game Slay the Spire with sitelen pona!
- jan Wiwi released a fantasy computer with some Toki Pona elements!
- Joonas Keitaaniemi created a printable language-learning tabletop roleplaying adventure that serves as a “language shower” for Toki Pona!
- jan Ke Tami organised some ideas of what a Toki Pona expansion pack of Trial By Trolley could look like!
- People get together every other Thursday on 20:15 CET to play games on the kama sona Discord server!
Songs
- akesi Takonijun released an original song wile utala featuring jan Usawi!
- pan Opa released nasin sike and translated Take It With You by Cameron Winter!
- kon Okisen translated I’ll be Seeing You!
- tetsusquared translated Mr. Brightside by The Killers and translated Welcome To The Black Parade into multiple languages, including Toki Pona!
- jgcodes translated the Kasane Teto song Machine Love!
- ko Sosuwa translated the Akita Neru song Flop Era!
- soweli Mosuki and jan Anso translated Susumu Hirasawa’s Caravan!
- jan Ke Tami translated Alle Vögel sind schon da!
- Basil Bagel translated The Flavor of a Cockroach (ゴキブリの味)!
- jan Anselo mixed Deltarune with a Toki Pona word!
- jan Pikesike translated Neuro-sama’s LIFE!
- jan Alonola re-uploaded Pata Powe songs!
Comics
- jan Pikesike continues to translate Bocchi The Rock! now up to chapter 6!
- jan Lusi made a Prolangs comic featuring Toki Pona and Esperanto as characters!
- jan Ke Tami translated the most recent episode of the webcomic Pepper & Carrot!
- u/JaoGamer321 explores the word “pilin”!
- ma Pusa translated chapters 1 and 2 of Shimeji Simulation!
Texts
- soweli Kapi continues to translate Alice in Wonderland, now with chapter 7 completed and illustrated!
- soweli Tajeson released the 3rd issue of lipu pi jan sin (here are links to part 1 and part 2!
- People get together every other Thursday on 20:15 CET to read lipu tenpo articles on the kama sona Discord server!
Tools & Resources
- jan Lakuse published Beginner Texts in Toki Pona, an interactive platform where you can practice your reading skills on a wide range of topics. A important stepping stone in a learner’s journey!
- jan Sate sells a physical keyboard with the Wakalito input method!
- jan Tomapi made a Fediverse and Bluesky bot that posts 3 random songs each day!
- u/FsBrcVgkpN created a cheat sheet in Chinese printable in an A5 format!
- With the addition of French by jan Lisente and jan Kakili, the Wasona course is now available in 11 languages!
- u/LeioLevan made a French Anki deck!
- ilo Muni got a 2025 database update, with some improved search functions!
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