Hoi!
- Although stubs are more likely to be edited than new pages are to
be created, macro-edits on stubs are neither more nor less likely than new pages are to be created as non-stubs in the first place.
Yes, I'd say it's 100% true, based on what I see.
Still, I guess that for the small Wikipedias, there is another thing that could speak in favor of the '1000 stubs': Their first issue will be to get people, more than to get articles
Yes, that's your main problem in a small wiki. You also have to get people use to that idiotic wiki-markup (WHEN will we have a NORMAL WYSIWYG?????) and they are good scratch-boxes.
People are also much less frightened to modify asemi-desert stub with little more than "small alpine village of 234 humans, 34 cows, 4 dogs and a cat" than they are of making a change on a 18.000 words entry on Kafka.
The new wikies are all like this, big wikies have long been opened. For all newcomers getting traffic and finding people who are willing to cope with the inner weirdness of wmf is the most relevant job.
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