The Swedish Wikipedia has a bad reputation, but according to my
research that is not quit justified. Sv.WP has many very short
articles, alright, but mostly they are real articles, not pseudo
articles.
Ziko
2008/5/18 Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
All of April, the Swedish Wikipedia has been
active with merging
"substubs" into larger units. As a result, the over all size of
the Swedish Wikipedia has been flat around 282,000 articles, while
the Russian Wikipedia has continued to grow at a healthy pace.
The difference in size is now only 5000 articles. Any day or week
soon, Russian will capture the 10th place. This will be a great
event, but what about the timing?
The Russian wikipedians already missed the 200th anniversary of
the conquest of Sveaborg (May 3, 1808). I don't think they will
time today's final in the ice hockey world championships. But I
also think they will be too early for the 299th anniversary of the
battle of Poltava (July 8, 1709). So we will have to find some
other way to mark the Russian victory for a place around the
puzzle globe (
http://www.wikipedia.org/).
As part of WikiProject Sweden (Википедия:Проект:Швеция), they
started yesterday a subpage "Swedish Week" (Шведская неделя). The
idea is to fill these last days of Swedish dominance with writing
new articles about Sweden. Yesterday, Saturday May 17, was
Norway's independence day but this didn't stop the Russians from
creating an article about the National holiday of Sweden, as well
as 50 other new articles pertaining to Sweden.
From a Swedish perspective, this isn't too bad. To quote ABBA:
"I feel like I win, when I lose" (Waterloo, 1974).
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Проект:Швеция/Шведская_неделя
I must congratulate the Russian (and Swedish) Wikipedians on their
good humor. It is something heartening to see amid the nationalist
conflicts one sometimes encounters.
I wish I could think of a good excuse for proposing a "Swedish Week"
or "Russian Week" or something similar on the English Wikipedia.
It is surprising how well hockey-playing nations
(Russia, Finland,
Sweden, Norway, Canada, USA, Germany, Poland, Czech Replublic) are
doing in Wikipedia. Maybe this is what the Arabs should try.
Clearly, the best way now for the WMF to promote free content in the
Arab world is to sponsor an ice rink at Alexandria. Pick-up contests
between Russian and Swedish Wikipedians could only demonstrate the
fine qualities of this game to our Egyptian hosts, and encourage its
broader adoption as an educational tool.
Thanks,
Pharos
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