Spanish speakers wouldn't like it to be called a Wikipedia because
they really don't even like saying or hearing the "Wiki" part, both
the "w" and the "k" sound being foreign and unpleasant.
Here's some data.
I just checked one name, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the greatest living
writer in Spanish, probably, certainly the best known:
-- No article in the Spanish Wikipedia
-- Short article in the Enciclopedia Libre, short list of works, with
all blank links or external links
-- Nice long article in the English Wikipedia with a much longer list
of works with all blank links
Maybe we should investigate what we need to do to encourage and
support translation?
Also, we should certainly offer or arrange to transfer the content of
the Spanish Wikipedia to the Enciclopedia Libre and not just swap
links.
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88
|From: Axel Boldt <axel(a)uni-paderborn.de>
|Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:59:55 +0200 (MET DST)
|
|The Enciclopedia libre at
http://enciclopedia.us.es/ is much larger
|and more active than the Spanish Wikipedia at
http://es.wikipedia.com/
|(in fact, it is by a large margin the biggest non-English free
|encyclopedia and the third largest wiki in the world).
|
|I think we should junk our Spanish Wikipedia, provide a link to their
|site on our main page (they probably don't like to be called
|Wikipedia, so we could simply say "non-English sister projects") and
|have our interwiki links point to them rather then to the Spanish
|Wikipedia.
|
|And if we ask nicely, we may even get a link back to
wikipedia.com.
|
|Axel
|
|P.S. I would assume that over time, other international Wikpedias will
|prefer to operate out of their own countries, to improve connection
|speeds and gain more contol, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
|