--- koyaanisqatsi(a)nupedia.com wrote:
Anthere Wrote:
In Wikipedia case, most people will only go to one
of
the links most of time. So a portal is not very
interesting maybe? Except if on the second
connexion,
the user is directly brought to the right
xx.wikipedia.org. Otherwise, it is a lack of time.
But if on the second connexion the user is brought
to
the
xx.wikipedia.org, he will rarely go to the
www.wikipedia.org and maybe is it loosing
something.
No ?
Besides, you will notice I used the word
"partners". A
portal tends to atomize things rather than to
interlink them.
Does what I say make more sense now ? Do you think
I
am wrong in my feeling or not ?
You make some good points. What would you have on
the page to make it more consistently useful?
kq
I can't see right now more than what I tried to
explain here
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-October/000900.html
with additional answers to comment and suggestions in
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-October/000904.html
and
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-October/000903.html
in short, good info from several langages, being
either
* background info for current events (eg, earth
summits, palestinian conflict...),
* or current event info (celebrities death, festival
de cannes)
* or a couple of "brillant prose" we are especially
proud of (dunno, global warming ?), either one
article, or full coverage of a special point
Most info would probably be in only one langage, but
maybe not, depending on the subject, it can be covered
by one or several articles in different langages, each
*leading* to the specific wikipedias.
It can be rather easy to differenciate langages when
it is supported by a small sentence introducing the
subject (or even a couple of words).
It will maybe slightly overlap with the front page
currents events of each wiki, but given the number of
subjects which likely will be covered, I don't think
it will really be a terrible strain to maintain a
couple of links in two different places.
The important things would be to provide good,
comprehensive and well-balanced articles that will
make us proud to show, and will make people *wonder*
how wonderful things Wikipedia can produce.
mes deux centimes d'euros :-)
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