On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)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
[[User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test]]
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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