[Foundation-l] Chinese Wikinews: board action required

[Jimmy Wales]

Yann Forget wrote:
> I hope that a new promotion campaign will attract new contributors for this 
> project. This should be started soon as the French Wikipedia is approaching 
> the 100,000 articles.

Since we're all discussing the problems of French wikinews, it is
worth pointing out that French Wikipedia is prospering.  I don't like 
for people to compete on article counts, because after all an article 
count is a poor proxy for quality work in the final analysis.  But, we 
all do it anyway because it is fun.  :-)

It seems likely that at recent rates of growth, French wikipedia will 
surpass Japanese wikipedia in the next few months.  According to (En) 
Wikipedia, French has 128 million total speakers (first and second 
language) while Japanese has 127 million total speakers.  So we should 
expect that most likely they will grow in parallel passing each other 
several times in the coming years.

--Jimbo
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