On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:45 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
While I am in general against imposing restrictions on the creation of new Wikipedias, from what I have observed so far those with test Wikipedias seem to be more successful: Cebuano and Kapampangan are growing very very slowly (didn't have test Wikipedias), while Scots and Võro are growing very quickly. Though, to be fair, those requests were around longer as well and so had more of a chance to develop a wider support base.
Võro and Scots are spoken in countries that have significantly a higher number of internet connections in general, and broadband connections specifically. And you only need one active native speaker with a broadband connection to have quick growth...
And, where people have more knowledge of the English language. For languages of the Philippines it would probably have been better to start with another language than English. I think it would be a good idea to wisely choose the "starting language" of new Wikipedias. If people can understand the interface they will be more tempted to add or change something...