Anthere (anthere9 at
yahoo.com) [050601 14:24]:
But *this* announcement would not be a global one.
Launching article
quality survey is of great interest for the english wikipedia due to its
size. It is of much reduced interest for smaller language (as the lack
of interest in validation topics by minor languages show in meta).
Wikipedias are at different stages of development. 2M global article can
help smaller languages get a press announcement. I am not sure they
would dare send a "quality survey" if their project is 11 254 articles.
Journalists are more likely to have a great laugh :-)
Mmm. It's of great interest on en: and (I think) de: (particularly in
regards to their quality campaign). Has anyone on fr: noticed?
- d.
I certainly agree it is of great interest.
I think there are enough french readers of this list and enough french participants on
meta, to know about this future feature (hard to say this aloud... :-)) ... and to make
the information dip at the right places... though I do not remember having it seen
discussed in french anywhere... well.
This morning, I put the [[en validation feature]] page a bit in the light on the "hot
news" on meta to help a bit it raise interest. But what I am confused about why are
there not two different pages for german and english speaking wikipedias ? Will the same
"frame" work for both languages ?
In any cases, the topic of the thread is about making a press release for the 2M, not a
press release for the article validation system.
The 2M would be of interest to many languages, if not all languages.
The article validation system, if it deserves a press release, would not be interesting
all languages by far, because some languages are currently still in the process of trying
to have *content*.
These are obviously two different topics and possibly not to mix in the same press
release.
And as Ryo points it out extremely well, a press release about the article validation
system should be discussed in wikipedia-l. I think it is premature though :-) Perhaps for
september ???? (hummm, when school and business start again ?) Since you take care of it a
lot, you'll be able to tell us in time :-)
Hmmm, right, I am not in the communication business. I only have the feeling these are two
important issues and it would be best to avoid that one press release deals with two
different issues at the same time. If only because we could not draft a good powerful
title :-)
ant
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