According to the wikistats page (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm in English), Japanese (ja:) is the 3rd-largest Wikipedia, after English and German, both in terms of articles and in terms of active contributors. I haven't really heard any discussion from there though---there's plenty of people from the de:, fr:, and even lots of smaller Wikipedias here, but not many at all from ja: that I've heard of. Anyone know how things are going on over there? Do they know about the Wikimedia Foundation and have any interest in it or requests or concerns or whatnot?
-Mark
Delirium wrote:
According to the wikistats page (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm in English), Japanese (ja:) is the 3rd-largest Wikipedia, after English and German, both in terms of articles and in terms of active contributors. I haven't really heard any discussion from there though---there's plenty of people from the de:, fr:, and even lots of smaller Wikipedias here, but not many at all from ja: that I've heard of. Anyone know how things are going on over there? Do they know about the Wikimedia Foundation and have any interest in it or requests or concerns or whatnot?
-Mark
Hello,
Maybe you can have chat with them on irc ( server: irc.FreeNode.net, channel: #ja.wikipedia ) ? :o)
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Do they know about the Wikimedia Foundation and have any interest in it or requests or concerns or whatnot?
The [[m:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation]] page has been translated into Japanese and is linked to from their recent changes. They have a contact page for non-Japanese-speakers at http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us_for_non-japanese-speakers if you want to ask them directly about it. If you do speak Japanese, they use a bulletin board at http://taurus.kake.info.waseda.ac.jp/wikip/joyful/joyful.u.cgi rather than a village pump. You might get more of a response at either of those places than on this mailing list.
Angela.
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