Ray Saintonge wrote:
--from Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net-- --reply wikipedia-l@nupedia.com--
--MLLNZEYCLYMQ@spammotel.com--Axel Boldt wrote:
The Enciclopedia libre at http://enciclopedia.us.es/ is much larger and more active than the Spanish Wikipedia at http://es.wikipedia.com/
That is a fact.
I think we should junk our Spanish Wikipedia, provide a link to their site on our main page (they probably don't like to be called Wikipedia, so we could simply say "non-English sister projects") and have our interwiki links point to them rather then to the Spanish Wikipedia.
That would be *very* unfair and a insult to the people who work on the Spanish Bomis-wikipedia. That Wikipedia is active; http://es.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Cambios_Recientes If it would be a dead Wikipedia things would be different. The fact that it is smaller is not a reason to junk it.
Every Wikipedia is autonomous to do things like the seem fit in general. But I see the Bomis-Wikipedia's as a part of a federation. Some ways of doing things my vary from wikipedia to wikipedia but the are all from the same family. The preferd partner must always be a fellow Wikipedia and not a foreign pedia.
P.S. I would assume that over time, other international Wikpedias will prefer to operate out of their own countries, to improve connection speeds and gain more contol, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
Only that if you exclude some fellow-wikidpia the "international Wikpedias" would likely be soon no "Wikipedia" anymore. ("international Wikpedias" -> does this mean there is also a national Wikipedia ? )
A great thing of Wikipedia is the global aspect. Please do not blow it.
giskart, Dutch Wikipedia