I'll be talking to the BBC tomorrow about Wikipedia, and they're also interested in stories about Wikipedia outside of US/Europe.
Of the top 20 languages, only Chinese and Japanese are non-European. However, if anyone can point me to some interesting stories regarding users in developing countries or how Wikipedia is used in unusual ways, please let me know.
Thanks!
--- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be talking to the BBC tomorrow about Wikipedia, and they're also interested in stories about Wikipedia outside of US/Europe.
Of the top 20 languages, only Chinese and Japanese are non-European. However, if anyone can point me to some interesting stories regarding users in developing countries or how Wikipedia is used in unusual ways, please let me know.
Uh - what about the majority of English and Spanish speakers who live outside of Europe? :)
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:26:54 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be talking to the BBC tomorrow about Wikipedia, and they're also interested in stories about Wikipedia outside of US/Europe.
Of the top 20 languages, only Chinese and Japanese are non-European. However, if anyone can point me to some interesting stories regarding users in developing countries or how Wikipedia is used in unusual ways, please let me know.
Uh - what about the majority of English and Spanish speakers who live outside of Europe? :)
Well, he did say "outside of US/Europe", which must put a pretty big dent in English. And both English and Spanish, are technically speaking, European languages, so his second paragraph is probably technically accurate, from a pedantic point of view. But especially with Spanish, you do have a point: I wonder how many South American contributors we have there (and what of Brazillian Portugese?)...
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:43:35 +0100, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
Well, he did say "outside of US/Europe", which must put a pretty big dent in English. And both English and Spanish, are technically speaking, European languages, so his second paragraph is probably technically accurate, from a pedantic point of view.
Right, I consider English and Spanish as having European roots.
But especially with Spanish, you do have a point: I wonder how many South American contributors we have there (and what of Brazillian Portugese?)...
Yes, this is what I would like more stories about, and maybe some numbers about how many Latin American users we have now. There should be a fair number of Brazilians, since the threat of a Portuguese language split was an issue recently. But I just don't know much about the Spanish speaking WP community.
They should of course contact Wizzy Digital.
Andy Rabagliati probably has the best stories; I think he is the one who realized Wikipedia would make a good component for their CD, and who handles retreiving the latest snapshot (he's posted about this on the wikitech list over the summer):
andyr@wizzy.com RSA Tel: +27.82.681.4887
If you can't reach him, there is also a US business contact listed on their site: Larry Wood, +1.570.746.3408
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:01:15 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be talking to the BBC tomorrow about Wikipedia, and they're also interested in stories about Wikipedia outside of US/Europe.
Of the top 20 languages, only Chinese and Japanese are non-European.
There's always the middle east... though that may not be far enough from Europe for their tastes.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:01:15AM +0800, Andrew Lih wrote:
I'll be talking to the BBC tomorrow about Wikipedia, and they're also interested in stories about Wikipedia outside of US/Europe.
Of the top 20 languages, only Chinese and Japanese are non-European. However, if anyone can point me to some interesting stories regarding users in developing countries or how Wikipedia is used in unusual ways, please let me know.
Maybe not excactly what you want, but on de: we have a group of Swiss pupils (age 15-17) who wrote a lot about the small island-country of Nauru making it to the maybe best described country in Wikipedia. They also start to translate their articles to English.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_Nauru http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Nauru http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:CdaMVvWgS - the group of pupils
ciao, tom
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