Stepping in here without knowing all there is to about this, so excuse me if there are gaps.
It seems to me as if no one metric in any way outdoes others; i.e. one high metric is just that, and can be well celebrated on it's own without imputing (or relating to) 'overall' strength/ success based on multiple metrics.
Might it make sense to think of it this way? That is to say, the overall strength of a language Wikipedia is something like the overall strength of an average Wikipedian; a good score on a commonly acceptable metric is a wonderful thing but by no means is *the* thing. In the discussion so far, it doesn't seem to as if you can substitute depth with any other metric (even a more commonly acceptable one like article count) and say that a particular language Wikipedia - as a whole - is better on that basis. Simultaneously, it doesn't mean that an achievement in depth is anything to scoff at either..
It seems as if there are a whole host of tangible and intangible factors that make up the success of a Wikimedia project; some are measurable, others definitely not.
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:46:52 +0530 From: CherianTinu Abrahamtinucherian@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians" To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Bangalore Wikimedia list Wikimedia-IN-BLR@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: "Achal Prabhala (Wikimedia Foundation)"aprabhala@gmail.com Message-ID: AANLkTikoP7AwwFG_QkKOSx-XusAA0N-xHbJhO01ZD-GQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians", featuring Achal Prabhala http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-neighbourhood/article112...
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