On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
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http://www.examiner.com/x-58002-Wiki-Edits-Examiner~y2010m7d26-British-Museu...
Thanks for the link. I had read that article previously and thought it was fairly interesting while getting a few points not quite right.
I agree that having a featured article in Latin seems a bit pointless, but it is actually useful as a quirky point to publicise the fact that we have such language wikis. If I was giving advice to anyone thinking of running a similar competition, specifying or excluding languages would be one option, or requiring that the entrants be from a range of languages (or require the articles to be translated into at least one other language after gaining featured status, and all to be translated into English unless there is already an existing article).
I do regret not being in the country at the time of the British Museum meeetup, and I hope they do another one.
Carcharoth