On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Although page depth was not really connected with the
current
trend, Personally, I think page depth is *no longer a reliable* metric
for comparison, here is why I think so.
Assamese Wikipedia ( 312 articles) : page depth is 339 .
Sindi ( 355 articles): 381
Compare this with
Bengali ( 22,062 articles) : 374
Malayalam ( 16,414 articles) : 320
It is self-explanatory...
Technically 1 million edits is a cute milestone ( congrats to ml wiki) to
take notice, but we cannot consider it as real metric for comparison among
Wikipedias. There are language Wikipedias where Google translation/Machine
translations or bot created articles are banned or controlled tightly. There
are Wikipedias, where they have a free run. Please note that I am not saying
taht they are either good or bad. There are Wikipedias where constant
updation of articles happening, due a vibrant Wikicommunity. There are
Wikipedians who like to work on the articles offline and then bring it live
with a single edit.
Having said that, it is advisable to do what each community feels best for
their language Wikipedia. Of course, it is good to have an healthy
competition :)
But everybody, please do continue to report such interesting milestones and
statistics. We all love that..
Agree with Tinu. Congratulations on the progress though. Indeed, it is good
to have healthy competition.
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