Hi. I would like to know how different language-wikipedias are handling entries that are not necessarily "typically" encyclopediac.
I recall that, on English Wikipedia, there was a list of songs whose lyrics do not contain the song title itself. On Japanese Wikipedia, there are some discussions if it is good to have lists of episode titles of TV programs.
We already have entries on minor cartoonists, animation voice actors, female news casters, many fictional characters/weapons/places/events, etc. Isn't this going to tarnish our reputation and disappoint existing/potential academic-oriented participants, if not yet?
It has to do with, it seems, two major concerns.
1) What is the encyclopedia for in general, and Wikipedia for in specific?
2) The volume of TV, animation, and other leisure/entertainment related posts are quite large in Japanese Wikipedia.
This is not like an official inquiry from the Japanese Wikipedia community, but I personally thought if Wikipedians in other languages know some wise ways to handle them.
Also, please feel free to write in languages other than English, or point to past discussions or existing policy pages on your wikipedia. I personally cannot read them, but I think I can find someone's help at least on languages like de, fr, eo, es, ko, zh, ar, and some others. I personally would appreciate any information.
Thank you,
Tomos
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:16:22AM +0900, wiki_tomos wrote:
I recall that, on English Wikipedia, there was a list of songs whose lyrics do not contain the song title itself. On Japanese Wikipedia, there are some discussions if it is good to have lists of episode titles of TV programs.
At de: we have lists of lists and I fear even a list of lists of lists. I can't remeber a discussion at de: about that but my suggestion would be to move such lists to the category namespace, missing entries can be put into the category description and viola, you have a cleaner namespace.
We already have entries on minor cartoonists, animation voice actors, female news casters, many fictional characters/weapons/places/events, etc. Isn't this going to tarnish our reputation and disappoint existing/potential academic-oriented participants, if not yet?
Bundle articles on the Star Wars characters and such. It's better to have those in one article. About minor cartoonists, find enough informations about them and you can't delete them anymore.
- What is the encyclopedia for in general, and Wikipedia for in specific?
An encyclopedia is for generally all knowledge. It's impossible to find a clear line what to put into. At least we have to chance to collect more knowledge cuz we have more space than any paper-encyclopedia.
- The volume of TV, animation, and other leisure/entertainment related posts are quite large in Japanese Wikipedia.
And at de: we are strong in mathematics, informatique and news. Just don't care, find people who know a lot about history and other weak topics and invite them to write for wikipedia. And, don't hurry.
ciao, tom
wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org