I just noticed that in addition to the Spanish/Castilian wikipedia at http://es.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Portada (using the old, ugly and difficult to use UseMod wikiware) with 1400 articles there is a very lively FDL�d Spanish wiki encyclopedia at http://enciclopedia.us.es/ (using php wikiware) with nearly 9,000 articles.
Did the Spanish wikipedia fork into two projects? And if so why? Seems like a lot of wasted effort to have two projects in the same language and also wasted interwiki link functionality since the more popular Spanish wiki is not on the same server (could we make interwiki links anyway?). This Espa�ol/Castellano split makes about as much sense as having separate American English and British English wikipedias would.
BTW, why are we reporting the stats of the http://enciclopedia.us.es for the Spanish wikipedia? Also, when in the world are the non-English wikipedias going to get a software upgrade? I would love to start adding inter wiki lingua links in many of the non-English articles to point back to the English versions (esp. the German chemistry articles � which are quite good, oftentimes better than their English counterparts).
Hum, I just read their about page (warning, my Spanish is rusty). From what I read, they seem to be rather critical of Wikipedia, citing as fact that Wikipedia is a �for-profit project of a North American company� and something about the fact that Wikipedia is at a �dotcom� address. Then they go on to state, again as fact, that the English wikipedia has an �elite with administrator privileges� who �harasses contributors� and �censure content� and �prohibit editing of certain pages�. Yikes! Do we deserve this?
--maveric149
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