On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:37:50PM +0200, Boris Lohnzweiger wrote:
However, I think it's finally time to realize that not every language is suitable for a wikipedia. Matter of fact, from a realistic perspective we have more Wikipedias that aren't working than ones that are.
You lost historical perspective. I remember times when German Wikipedia had so friggin awesome 1200 articles (mostly stubs, by today's standards), and we tried to get over 500 on the Polish Wikipedia. It wasn't such a long time ago. Now the German Wikipedia seems like the best German-language encyclopedia ever made, and the Polish Wikipedia is likely to reach similar status in a year or two.
On the other hand Kashubian Wikipedia has now 661 articles and so many people consider it a hopeless effort that can't possibly work.
Not all of the currently small Wikipedias will grow, but it's very likely that most of them will get to into "useful" (10k+ articles) range in just a few years, and by then we will have a lot of new small Wikipedias that people will keep whining about, how hopeless their efforts supposedly are.
I, for one, believe the Kashubian Wikipedia and others like it have future.