In general Wikipedias are being divided by language, not by country. Sure, Swiss users will have different interests than German, French or Italian ones, but those are I think better served by adding Swiss content to the existing Wikipedias than by creating a new, multi-lingual Wikipedia.
Andre Engels
Hello Andre
Yes it's ok to difided by language, but there is already a "Portal" for switzerland at http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal and my idea was to improve the efficiency of this "portal". My first mind was to update this site. And so i make the suggestion to start a new wikipedia. Are there other proposals to make this site more attractive???
Michael
As first, sorry my bad english... my preferred languages are German and French.
I'm interested to start
details on ch.wikipedia.org: Switzerland is especially: The national languages are German, French, Italian, and Romansh and this by only 7 millions habitants. There's already a Page for swiss users: http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal/ but i think that's a bad seller. I have further plans with respectable and multilingual content for Switzerland.
details on ch.wikinews.org: same motivation like ch.wikipedia.org and Switzerland has a strong economy with a lot's of interesting news. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union. And so, we have other interestes than germany. and so on.
Are there also Plans like this? Can i help? If there no plans i will to start first with wikipedia.ch and secondly wikinews.ch. Are someone interesstet to help?
best regards Michael Rueetschli business data processing specialist Switzerland _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
mr> Yes it's ok to difided by language, but there is already a "Portal" mr> for switzerland at http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal and my idea was to mr> improve the efficiency of this "portal". mr> My first mind was to update this site. And so i make the suggestion to mr> start a new wikipedia. mr> Are there other proposals to make this site more attractive???
The portal is there to direct people who are looking for Wikipedia by the top-domain code to Wikipedias in the languages used in Switzerland. There is no further need to make a Swiss Wikipedia, as the Swiss are welcome to use the German, French and Italian ones.
Kaixo!
There is no further need to make a Swiss Wikipedia, as the Swiss are welcome to use the German, French and Italian ones.
And don't forget Alemannic ( http://als.wikipedia.org/ ) and raetho-roman ( http://rm.wikipedia.org/ )
(If they aren't in the "Swiss" portal, they should be added)
If your aim is only to create a more accessible portal, just have a look on www.wikipedia.be, a belgian portal with links to the french, dutch and german Wikipedias.
Traroth
Hello Andre
Yes it's ok to difided by language, but there is already a "Portal" for switzerland at http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal and my idea was to improve the efficiency of this "portal". My first mind was to update this site. And so i make the suggestion to start a new wikipedia. Are there other proposals to make this site more attractive???
Michael
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Personally, I am of the opinion that the Swiss portal is better than the Belgian one.
Andre Engels
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:49:07 +0100 (CET), Traroth traroth@yahoo.fr wrote:
If your aim is only to create a more accessible portal, just have a look on www.wikipedia.be, a belgian portal with links to the french, dutch and german Wikipedias.
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