For small wikipedias we thought about something more meaningful: pseudo-translation of countries, rivers, mountains, islands, movies, actors etc. from English Wikipedia. Yes, I know that concesus should be reached for 100.000 new articles, but if people from small Wikipedias want that, they will localize software. If they don't want, we wouldn't have even stubs in their language.
On 2/24/06, Heiko Evermann heiko.evermann@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Milos, hi Sabine,
There is one aspect in this project that is totally missing so far: it has to be checked, whether these small wikipedias really want this mass inclusion. Please do not add such content without consensus.
Just imagine a small wikipedia with e.g. 2000 articles. If you then add 20000 stubs about geographic places, this will ususally not do the wikipedia a favour. I just try to imagine 2000 articles following the template "x is a city in y with 20000 inhabitants. a% of them speak b c% of them speak d x lies in the administrative region of z".
It would just promise an incredibly high article count and once you browse through the wikipedia 95% of you find is template articles. A small wikipedia's team will probably not have the resources of turning 20000 geographical stubs into meaningfull articles and even if it had, it would probably prefer spending their time on other things that are more important than stubs about every village in other countries than their own.
I am not convinced that this is a service. To me it looks more than a burden.
Kind regards, Heiko Evermann _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l