Hi all.
We have a domain reserved for Luganda (Lugandan?) at lg.wikipedia.org. It currently has no content, although it is open for editing.
Someone left a question on the en:wiki Help Desk about translating articles into Luganda; I pointed them towards that site. However, it's pretty much completely empty other than the main page, which I can see being pretty daunting for a new user. Is there anything on meta: intended to act as a "so, you're starting on an empty project" guide?
(Anyone who wants to leave other advice on the HD page, please do)
Andrew Gray wrote:
Hi all.
We have a domain reserved for Luganda (Lugandan?) at lg.wikipedia.org. It currently has no content, although it is open for editing.
Someone left a question on the en:wiki Help Desk about translating articles into Luganda; I pointed them towards that site. However, it's pretty much completely empty other than the main page, which I can see being pretty daunting for a new user. Is there anything on meta: intended to act as a "so, you're starting on an empty project" guide?
(Anyone who wants to leave other advice on the HD page, please do)
Hi
Unfortunately, I do not think we have such a page. Though...
Well, one you may be interested in (or not) is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
Not everyone agrees with that list though.
On fr: when it started, most editors mostly did stubs, with empty red links to invite contributions. I rather chose to make few but quite complete articles. At least a visitor gets something real to read and not put off by the encyclopedia being merely a collection of stubs. If you wisely choose the topic, the fleshy articles can also pretty well appear in google and attract new editors. Remember also to wander on discussion forum and let the link to the fleshy articles there, so that participants of the forum can follow them.
However, all this takes time. First thing to do is to make a main page, with a bunch of links. Avoid making a full main page as big languages do, hundreds of red links on the main page is more scary than anything :-)
Ant
We have a domain reserved for Luganda (Lugandan?) at lg.wikipedia.org. It currently has no content, although it is open for editing.
Hi
Unfortunately, I do not think we have such a page. Though...
Well, one you may be interested in (or not) is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
Not everyone agrees with that list though.
I personally would start with subjects in connections to the country/region the language is spoken in.
So an article about the country A couple of major cities/regions/provinces 3 or 4 persons that were/are important to the people speaking the language like a famous singer, president, actor
furthermore according to our pagestatistics which were on again for a couple of weeks this year but which jave unfortunately been switched off yet again! articles related to sex and articles related to news items do very well in any language. Also the "day pages" always end up high in those statistics. So if you want to try and attract people more quickly towards your language pedia try to develop those areas from the beginning.
Waerth/Walter
My suggestion is to add a TOC to the mainpage.
A good English TOC can be found: http://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Obviously, the names need to be translated.
When those redlinks exist, that person may write the articles from scratch, or translate them from an existing Wikipedia.
Mark
On 01/09/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
We have a domain reserved for Luganda (Lugandan?) at lg.wikipedia.org. It currently has no content, although it is open for editing.
Hi
Unfortunately, I do not think we have such a page. Though...
Well, one you may be interested in (or not) is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
Not everyone agrees with that list though.
I personally would start with subjects in connections to the country/region the language is spoken in.
So an article about the country A couple of major cities/regions/provinces 3 or 4 persons that were/are important to the people speaking the language like a famous singer, president, actor
furthermore according to our pagestatistics which were on again for a couple of weeks this year but which jave unfortunately been switched off yet again! articles related to sex and articles related to news items do very well in any language. Also the "day pages" always end up high in those statistics. So if you want to try and attract people more quickly towards your language pedia try to develop those areas from the beginning.
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