Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu writes:
elian wrote in small part:
Next, I want to see the progress of all wikipedias at one central place and not somewhere hidden at an obscure statistics page somewhere at the english (Main?) wikipedia where nobody of the non-english contributors bothers to look for regularly. The version I proposed stimulates competition.
I'm not sure why you use the word "competition" here. It seems to me that having a central page to look at each language will promote cooperation rather than competition. And furthermore, I think that that's exactly what *should* be promoted. So you seem to use the wrong word, but replace it with "cooperation" and the argument is exactly right.
Not the right wording, you are right. What I meant is both, cooperation and competition. It ranges from "Oh, the spanish have 4000 articles now - I should go over and add interlanguage links" and "hello, the french added in one week over 1000 articles - how did they do that? Let's have a look..." to "Oh, no - the x-ish are outrunning us, let's try to get some more contributors."
greetings, elian