Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
From English wiki:
sv 358 Swedish (??? of 212) This is odd.
212 is the article (comma) count. There are 394 pages in the Swedish
Wikipedia.
Which means many of the linked articles either don't exist or are
comma-less stubs.
Also, you assume that interwiki links must point to
articles that
already exist. Normal (intrawiki) links can point to pages that don't
yet exist, and there is no harm in that.
I'm not "assuming" that; that's an empirical observation of most (all?)
of the interlanguage links except for the ones you yourself have put in
without warning to nonexistent articles.
Whether they _ought_ to be that way is another matter. My contention, at
least as things stand now, is that the interlanguage links are more like
streamlined links to external websites than they are like internal wiki
links. You wouldn't link to an external web site that _might_ come into
being in the future but doesn't exist yet, especially without giving
warning. Would you?
Further, it is odd that the Swedish Wikipedia has only
attracted
contributions of 212 articles. Maybe the management is doing
something wrong in promoting that website.
Maybe they just don't draw as much activity when there's already an
active encyclopedia-like Swedish wiki at susning.nu? You may have heard
of it. :)
That theory could also
explain why the Spanish Wikipedia only has 2000 articles, while
another famous Wiki in the Spanish language has well over 9000
articles. Perhaps the Spanish interwiki links would be more useful if
they pointed to where the contributions go. Just an idea.
I've suggested that myself; support has been lukewarm here and nobody
seems to have bothered to ask the Spanish wikiistas what they prefer.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)