Svip wrote:
I guess I am too busy maintaining my own wiki as well. Maybe a choice to attract editors would be similar to that of the Swedish and Norwegian wikis. That, and I'd like to see more appreciation of the Danish language from the Danes themselves. I hear Dutch is under the same criticism from the Dutch themselves.
This is interesting. My understanding is that even compared to the Danes, the Dutch are hugely internationally minded.
In Science Fiction fandom circles I have heard of an "8person rule of thumb" (though I admit the rule may hive more general application within Dutch society) - whereby within spoken communication situations, if there is one native English speaker present, there have to be at least 8Dutch speakers present, before even the most private comments by the Dutch speakers will be made in Dutch.
It would be a genuinely useful data point to see how the Dutch language wikipedia compares to any possible wikipedias of similar number of native speakers in terms of breadth and size, where the languages compared against do not have this strong tradition of internationalism.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen