Andre Engels wrote:
I disagree. I think it is strange to count the various languages together into one number. Some of these articles are translations of each other, others are different articles about the same subject.
We are talking about the progress of the project as a whole -our community effort-, we /are not/ boasting about the relative merit of our encyclopedia as a usable resource (using article count as a proxy). We need to make that clear in the announcement. It takes a lot of work to create 300,000 articles (including the ones that are translations). /That/ is what the milestone statement is for.
Community.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Andre Engels wrote:
I disagree. I think it is strange to count the various languages together into one number. Some of these articles are translations of each other, others are different articles about the same subject.
We are talking about the progress of the project as a whole -our community effort-, we /are not/ boasting about the relative merit of our encyclopedia as a usable resource (using article count as a proxy). We need to make that clear in the announcement. It takes a lot of work to create 300,000 articles (including the ones that are translations). /That/ is what the milestone statement is for.
250,000 is a somewhat better milestone since it can be expressed as a "quarter million"
Ec.
I agree with Maverick on this one. The wikipedias traditional notions of nice walls between languages serves only to keep some structure. As a whole, wikipedia is destined to be far more than just an English and Germanic and Latin language resource. It should be thought of in this way regardless of the issue. -S-
Andre Engels wrote:
I disagree. I think it is strange to count the
various languages together into one number. Some of
these articles are translations of each other, others are different articles about the same subject.
We are talking about the progress of the project as a whole -our community effort-, we /are not/ boasting about the relative merit of our encyclopedia as a usable resource (using article count as a proxy). We need to make that clear in the announcement. It takes a lot of work to create 300,000 articles (including the ones that are translations). /That/ is what the milestone statement is for.
Community. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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