Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I think this is a very interesting point. You will forgive if I have asked this before, and not gotten a reply. (I honestly forget if I have broached this subject before, I know I have often thought I should ask the question.)
Does anyone know how many unique (that is not reproduced around other languages) articles there are in toto in the non-English language wikipedias, which do not have a corresponding English language wikipedia article? Can even a rough estimate be made?
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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Might be of interest.
It is.
If I read that correctly the upshot seemed to be that just by translating articles from the non-English language wikipedias (presuming they would not be deleted immediately because of a lack of English language web-sources :-( that is) there would be fertile ground for an addition of around two million new articles to the English language wikipedia.
Would there be any workable way to create a big (huge?) "Missing Articles" project by somehow mass generating a list of the various non-English language articles still not translated to the English language wikipedia?
<smirk> At least the creation of such lists from those various language projects wouldn't be problematic in terms of database copyright. </smirk>
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen