We should indeed care. One thing is that we should do whatever we can to help new projects grow to a selfsustainable size in terms of content and contributors. The second is that we must accept that a lot of new projects will fail, but that this is no reason not to go ahead with even more new projects. If 1 out of 10 new projects survive, then the time spent on the 9 failed projects was not waisted. That one project in some "small language" helps fullfilling the vision of the Foundation as stated on those fundraisingpages I'm just now translating into the small language of Norwegian.
Thanks to Lodewijk for a posting here that actually gave me some inspiration to continue translating ;)
Finn Rindahl
2008/11/30 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
Hoi, I wish for 80% of our projects to have the same problems as our bigger projects. It would be cool that we could compare the quality issues of the Xhosa Wikipedia or any of the bottom 80%. It takes content in order to talk about quality. The content is not there and consequently quality is not an issue. Thanks, GerardM
2008/11/30 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru
Actually, the quality is a serious problem of all projects including en.wp. I thought it is obvious for everybody, but if not, I can provide more detail.
Cheers Yaroslav
Please, speak for yourself :) I *do* care, and if there is an easy and definite solution, I'd love to embrace it. I think we should care about our little siblings, about the smaller languages as we call them, and
support
them if possible. I can only hope you were being extremely ironic :)
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