"Heiko Evermann" <heiko.evermann(a)gmx.de> wrote in
message news:200602240904.30927.heiko.evermann@gmx.de...
There is one aspect in this project that is totally
missing so far: it has
to
be checked, whether these small wikipedias really want this mass
inclusion.
Please do not add such content without consensus.
It would just promise an incredibly high article count and once you browse
through the wikipedia 95% of you find is template articles. A small
wikipedia's team will probably not have the resources of turning 20000
geographical stubs into meaningfull articles and even if it had, it would
probably prefer spending their time on other things that are more
important
than stubs about every village in other countries than their own.
On the other hand, it would provide visitors with excellent opportunities to
edit something relevant to themselves: where they live.
Once they got the editing bug, there would then be plenty of articles they
could go forth and clean-up.
I'm thinking that a Wikipedia chock-full of geographical stubs is a lot
better than one chock-full of pop-culture stubs, which would likely prove
totally irrelevant to almost every Wikipedia other than that for the home
language.
HTH HAND
--
Phil
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