Marco Krohn wrote:
wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org wrote:
I like to point out to people that the *German* version won in a blind test against two commercial encyclopedias, and we'd like to bring the English one up to the same standard. This points out that though en: is a remarkable achievement, at least one other language version has in fact tested even better!
IMHO the English Wikipedia was and continues to be better than the German one, both in terms of quality and quantity. This of course does not hold for topics that are related to Germany.
best regards, Marco
Hoi, Is it relevant what wikipedia is better ? I think the different wikipedias can not be compared because few articles are translated and most articles are rewritten. This way the information is more relevant to the public reading the language and the bias that can be found in the en:wikipedia is replaced by the bias that is prevalent in the non English language. With a believe that the en:wikipedia is better, you will not look into the other projects and find out what the strength is of the other projects.
One nice translation excercise I learned about the other day were Italian students translating German wikipedia articles into Italian. The texts were chosen by the teacher, the students translate the article, the student corrects and does the proof reading and the translated article is posted in the Italian wikipedia. When the students become more able with the German language, they will translate into German. :)
Thanks, GerardM
Thanks