[Wikipedia-l] Look Who's Using Wikipedia ... gerardm

[Mark Williamson]

I agree with this greatly. The only "major" language I can think of
with a more drastic native speaker to second language speaker ratio is
French, whose speakers are more than slightly more regionally
concentrated.

Spanish has a wider reach than either as a native language, but as a
second language it falls short.

Mark

On 07/03/07, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > When asked where the English Wikipedia fails, it is for me in the other
> > cultures. However, when you consider the Wikipedians that have a different
> > mother tongue, there is a group that does their native language and there
> > are others that work on the English Wikipedia. It could be argued that the
> > quality of the articles in the English Wikipedia has a relation to the
> > quality of the Wikipedia in the local language.
> >
> > I think en.wikipedia does reasonably better than the other wikipedias on
> this, because there are so many non-native speakers that write on it. It is
> easier to drift towards a "national" POV with languages that no one speaks
> outside a country. It's still not perfect, but it could be worse.
>
> Marco/Cruccone
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