With all the hype about English hitting 500k, I just want to point out another milestone that is being overlooked.
A while back, Amikeco and some others began pressing for an Ossetian Wikipedia. It took a while, but they finally got it, and in a very short time, they passed the 100 article mark. This is especially impressive for a language that few people have heard of. Great work for a small group of committed editors.
I just want to congratulate them on this achievement, and hope that it inspires some of the other small Wikis to pick up speed and grow.
Good work.
Danny
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
With all the hype about English hitting 500k, I just want to point out another milestone that is being overlooked.
A while back, Amikeco and some others began pressing for an Ossetian Wikipedia. It took a while, but they finally got it, and in a very short time, they passed the 100 article mark. This is especially impressive for a language that few people have heard of. Great work for a small group of committed editors.
I just want to congratulate them on this achievement, and hope that it inspires some of the other small Wikis to pick up speed and grow.
Congratulations from me, too - the work done looks pretty impressive so far :-)
greetings, elian
At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100.
Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias.
All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less.
Mark
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:53:42 EST, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
With all the hype about English hitting 500k, I just want to point out another milestone that is being overlooked.
A while back, Amikeco and some others began pressing for an Ossetian Wikipedia. It took a while, but they finally got it, and in a very short time, they passed the 100 article mark. This is especially impressive for a language that few people have heard of. Great work for a small group of committed editors.
I just want to congratulate them on this achievement, and hope that it inspires some of the other small Wikis to pick up speed and grow.
Good work.
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Mark Williamson wrote:
At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100. Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias. All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less.
If someone could go and update the www.wikipedia.org template page accordingly ...
- d.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp (preview of actual appearance: http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_tem... )
I have received mostly positive feedback for the minor design modifications I made. A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias. For the same reason, the Hebrew name instead of the Yiddish name, the Arabic name instead of the Farsi or Urdu names, etc.
Mark
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:27:54 +0000, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100. Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias. All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less.
If someone could go and update the www.wikipedia.org template page accordingly ...
- d.
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Mark Williamson wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp (preview of actual appearance: http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_tem... )
I have received mostly positive feedback for the minor design modifications I made. A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias. For the same reason, the Hebrew name instead of the Yiddish name, the Arabic name instead of the Farsi or Urdu names, etc.
Mark
Hoi, I have had a look at the proposed change to the portal page and I do not like the background with all the languages. It is too cluttered to my taste. It is also a distraction from the 10 big languages that are being obscured in this way. I appreciate the effort but I do not like it. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:27:54 +0000, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100. Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias. All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less.
If someone could go and update the www.wikipedia.org template page accordingly ...
- d.
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Walter Vermeir schreef:
Hoi, I have had a look at the proposed change to the portal page and I do not like the background with all the languages. It is too cluttered to my
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It also looks very ugly whit IE.
Walter
But whit FireFox it is better.
Why not use the monobook background? If all the wikis use it, even the cafepress shop now, why not the portal?
Idem for www.wikimedia.org
Walter
The reason it looks ugly with IE is because Goplat, for whatever reason, removed the IE hacks for CSS.
Mark
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:49:30 +0000 (UTC), Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
Hoi, I have had a look at the proposed change to the portal page and I do not like the background with all the languages. It is too cluttered to my
[cut]
It also looks very ugly whit IE.
Walter
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:59:52 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp (preview of actual appearance: http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_tem... )
I have received mostly positive feedback for the minor design modifications I made. A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias. For the same reason, the Hebrew name instead of the Yiddish name, the Arabic name instead of the Farsi or Urdu names, etc.
The background is far too heavy. Lighten it a bit, maybe leaving blank space around the circle of languages.
Is it better now?
Mark
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:36:13 +0000, Tomer Chachamu the.r3m0t@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:59:52 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp (preview of actual appearance: http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_tem... )
I have received mostly positive feedback for the minor design modifications I made. A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias. For the same reason, the Hebrew name instead of the Yiddish name, the Arabic name instead of the Farsi or Urdu names, etc.
The background is far too heavy. Lighten it a bit, maybe leaving blank space around the circle of languages.
http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_tem...
A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias.
Yes
There are 13К articles in Russian Wikipedia, and 16К in Ukrainian
But
There are 3.0М words in Russian Wikipedia, and 2.0М in Ukrainian 158К links in Russian Wikipedia, and 71К in Ukrainian 21% >2K articles, and 8% 10 very active wikipedians and 3 etc
:)
The background is far too heavy.
Yes, it's very dark and contrast.
Mark Williamson wrote:
Is it better now?
Mark
Well, it is better, but please try lightening it again. I think the effect should be at most like a watermark, if there at all. At the moment, the effect of "text on text" is highly distracting, and worse than the current appearance.
-- Neil
Is there a place where I can see the current sizes of the various languages? The statistics page is still showing the situation of late December, and going through about 150 languages by hand is an awful lot of work (I use a list of 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 'largest' languages for the bot).
Andre Engels
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:46:38 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100.
Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias.
All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less.
Mark
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:53:42 EST, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
With all the hype about English hitting 500k, I just want to point out another milestone that is being overlooked.
A while back, Amikeco and some others began pressing for an Ossetian Wikipedia. It took a while, but they finally got it, and in a very short time, they passed the 100 article mark. This is especially impressive for a language that few people have heard of. Great work for a small group of committed editors.
I just want to congratulate them on this achievement, and hope that it inspires some of the other small Wikis to pick up speed and grow.
Good work.
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Andre Engels wrote:
Is there a place where I can see the current sizes of the various languages? The statistics page is still showing the situation of late December, and going through about 150 languages by hand is an awful lot of work (I use a list of 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 'largest' languages for the bot).
Andre Engels
This one is updated every month:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics
Alfio
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