Florence Devouard wrote:
Strange as well to see that in the case of an already
pretty big
.sv, half of the articles are <0,5 ko.
At the Swedish Wikipedia, we're very well aware of this. It is
"pretty big" only by article count, not so much by word count.
Article count is a traditional measure for encyclopedias, but it
can be inflated if a few large articles are split into many
smaller ones. If stubs are merged into larger articles (e.g.
"villages in Bretagne", instead of having one stub for each), the
amount of text is unchanged, but the article count is lowered.
If we were to count words or something to that effect, the Russian
Wikipedia (the 11th biggest by article count) would already be
bigger than Swedish (10th). The Polish (4th) and Dutch (6th)
Wikipedias would also fall behind Japanese (5th) and Italian
(7th). Over all, the ranking of Wikipedias would become more
similar to the ranking of languages (by number of speakers).
There is currently a discussion on how to possibly rearrange the
top ten positions at
www.wikipedia.org taking place on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Wikipedias
My congratulations to the donation from the Sloan Foundation!
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se