On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:28:42 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
You put it very nicely Gerard.
I don't particularly agree about the requirements, but I do agree with everything else you said - an active Wikipedia is an active Wikipedia, whether it's being written in a language with 10 speakers or one with 1 billion.
Currently, IIRC our greatest article-to-speaker proportion is for Faroese. This is a bit sad since the Faroese Wikipedia doesn't even have 200 articles, but if I recall correctly it is the truth (surely Welsh and Basque are somewhere nearby in this proportion).
*ahem*
I could build a complex mathematical model, but I have the feeling that a Wikipedia in a language with 1000 speakers has just as much growth potential as a Wikipedia in a language with 1 million speakers, although one may grow faster than the other, the latter will never reach a size that the former cannot achieve as well.
Mark
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:22:07 +0100, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, To start off with. As far as I am concerned, when the requirements are met for a new project, it can be created. With five people adding one article a week, you have100 articles in 20 weeks. I am happy with that.
What we have to consider when we talk about our wikipedias, is that no two projects have the same content. Translations exist, but the majority of the articles written contain info that makes it particular to the language and reflects a culture. We aim to have an encyclopedia in every spoken language. For me it is important that the content that is important for a culture can be found in a wikipedia. When some argue that English will do for the Hopi, I would argue that this may be true for the general information that is provided in the English wikipedia. I would also argue that content will be lacking that is particular to the Hopi. When people who speak Hopi find the urge to create a Hopi Wikipedia and decide not to write about the 1000 subjects that every wikipedia ought to have. I would not be bothered. When they write an encyplodia about their culture, about the things that are relevant to the Hopi, I would be absolutely thrilled.
When the Hopi encyclopedia wants to include things that are of a more general nature, it would be great. I am of the opinion that wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Articles should be well written and encyclopedic in nature. .
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