Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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.
I don't think he's the one losing perspective. You can hardly compare two languages based on the number of articles in their Wikipedia editions. We currently have only 195 articles in Urdu, and I'll do whatever is necessary to support its growth into the hundreds of thousands. But a Wikipedia written in Klingon is a complete waste of time whether it has 100 articles or 100,000. You may as well write it in ROT13-encoded English. The measure of success should be information transfer, not information content.
-- Tim Starling