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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