Peter Gervai wrote:
Yep. We have ~600 articles, but they are _real_. Not templates. Not [...] (All I wanted to say: article count isn't god's way to rate us. Apart from
This is of course not about "rating" a people or language per se, only indicating the size (at a point in time) of a collection of articles. It took me (alone) only one month to write the first 1000 articles (real articles) in my own wiki website, so 600 articles is a very small collection.
I'm not suggesting to remove the smaller language Wikipedias, only to separate big from small in lists such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_coordination
The Hungarian Wikipedia has gotten a late start, but I'm sure it will soon reach 6000 and then 60,000 articles, just like German, Polish and Swedish, so you need not worry. But I'm worried that Sami or Kashubian will never reach 600, and I don't think we should stop them from trying just because these languages might not have 10,000 active speakers. When someone asks why there is no active Kashubian Wikipedia, do you think we should answer "they tried but have not yet succeeded" or "we have forbidden them from trying"?
And what if the Poles (46 million speakers) and Germans (140 million speakers) would decide to set the limit at 30 million speakers instead of 10 thousand, then both you (Hungarian, 15 million speakers) and me (Swedish, 9 million speakers) will be in trouble.