I took a quick poll amongst the adminstrators of scn.wiki (all 4 of us!) - the feeling was quite unanimous - we pride ourselves on having got up to 4,500 odd articles without any assistance from a bot and we much prefer to continue going down that route.
I agree with Slavik on all counts - adding tens of thousands of articles to a small wikipedia just because you can is of no real value. A handful of people are never going to get through a fraction of that quantity of articles in terms of checking them, adding to them, etc. On the other hand, covering all countries and major cities of the world (approx. 500 articles?) does not seem such a bad idea. However, for the moment, scn.wiki is quite happy to continue plodding along at our unspectacular, but steady, rate. Salutamu. pippu d'angelo
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Message: 11 Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:17:01 +0300 From: "V. Ivanov" Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] RFC: Principles of mass content adding on small Wikipedias To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 39ef24b40603031917jb668864j@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Well, what should the people from a smaller Wikipedia do to become a testing place for the new project? I am ready to cooperate about the Ossetic (and probably also Chuvash and Udmurt) wikipedia. Really, thousands of new articles might be a not so good idea, but creating stubs about all countries and probably about the largest cities of the world sounds good.
So, what is the algorythm?
Slavik IVANOV os, ru, udm: User:Amikeco
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Hmm, this pretty much doubled what I said in the other substub mailing thread. I believe these substub bots are not doing a very good work, it's better to let the usual contributors work on. It's quality that counts, not quantity. A pedia isn't of better quality with 50000 substubs, than 500 good articles.
/Andreas
On 3/4/06, Giuseppe DAngelo pippudoz@yahoo.it wrote:
I took a quick poll amongst the adminstrators of scn.wiki (all 4 of us!) - the feeling was quite unanimous - we pride ourselves on having got up to 4,500 odd articles without any assistance from a bot and we much prefer to continue going down that route.
I agree with Slavik on all counts - adding tens of thousands of articles to a small wikipedia just because you can is of no real value. A handful of people are never going to get through a fraction of that quantity of articles in terms of checking them, adding to them, etc. On the other hand, covering all countries and major cities of the world (approx. 500 articles?) does not seem such a bad idea. However, for the moment, scn.wiki is quite happy to continue plodding along at our unspectacular, but steady, rate. Salutamu. pippu d'angelo
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:17:01 +0300 From: "V. Ivanov" Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] RFC: Principles of mass content adding on small Wikipedias To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 39ef24b40603031917jb668864j@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Well, what should the people from a smaller Wikipedia do to become a testing place for the new project? I am ready to cooperate about the Ossetic (and probably also Chuvash and Udmurt) wikipedia. Really, thousands of new articles might be a not so good idea, but creating stubs about all countries and probably about the largest cities of the world sounds good.
So, what is the algorythm?
Slavik IVANOV os, ru, udm: User:Amikeco
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