Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)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
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