On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:38:38 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
19k articles is huge. It is more than decent. It makes zh a usable encyclopedic resource with only a few omissions in normal browsing.
Not wanting to debating this to death, but here are some numbers: World Book Concise Encyclopedia - 25,000 entries Britannica Concise Encycloepdia - 24,000 to 28,000 depending on edition Oxford Concise Encyclopedia, paperback - 12,000 entries
I'd consider ZH decent, not huge, considering many of the 19,000 ZH articles are not "production quality."
Following some links from today's featured article and checking on their ZH counterpart: Economics (sparse) Population (stubby) Litre (substubby) Ecology (missing)
Look, ZH is a very good achievement so far. No one is trashing it. It just can't 't be considered as on a healthy S-curve yet. Given the number of Chinese speakers, there's work to be done. I'm not the first to point this out. See this previous post and look for "zh:" http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/032596.html
Your only giving actual figures for "very active" Wikipedians is also selective spin. "Active" Wikipedians are obviously much higher in number and are what makes zh.wikipedia a community rather than a closed group of friends.
Active Wikipedians follows the same trend - ZH in December *just* climbed back to May 2004 levels in terms of active Wikipedians. See for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/ChartsWikipediaZH.htm
Calling very active Wikipedians a "closed group of friends" is inaccurate. There are plenty of active Wikipedians in EN that I can't stand. :)
You try to make it sound as if zh.wikipedia is devoid of all life except for the lone Wikipedian here and there - that's ridiculous.
Please quote anything from previous emails that comes close to saying "devoid of life."
If Nishishei really wants to work on a Wu Wikipedia, and he can draw other editors/readers, then why do you want to redirect his efforts to zh.wikipedia? That's a bit selfish.
I don't think asking someone to work on a GFDL project, putonghua or Wu, can be considered "selfish."