[Foundation-l] Swedish Week on Russian Wikipedia

[Ziko van Dijk]

The Swedish Wikipedia has a bad reputation, but according to my
research that is not quit justified. Sv.WP has many very short
articles, alright, but mostly they are real articles, not pseudo
articles.
Ziko


2008/5/18 Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>> All of April, the Swedish Wikipedia has been active with merging
>> "substubs" into larger units.  As a result, the over all size of
>> the Swedish Wikipedia has been flat around 282,000 articles, while
>> the Russian Wikipedia has continued to grow at a healthy pace.
>> The difference in size is now only 5000 articles. Any day or week
>> soon, Russian will capture the 10th place.  This will be a great
>> event, but what about the timing?
>>
>> The Russian wikipedians already missed the 200th anniversary of
>> the conquest of Sveaborg (May 3, 1808). I don't think they will
>> time today's final in the ice hockey world championships.  But I
>> also think they will be too early for the 299th anniversary of the
>> battle of Poltava (July 8, 1709).  So we will have to find some
>> other way to mark the Russian victory for a place around the
>> puzzle globe (http://www.wikipedia.org/).
>>
>> As part of WikiProject Sweden (Википедия:Проект:Швеция), they
>> started yesterday a subpage "Swedish Week" (Шведская неделя). The
>> idea is to fill these last days of Swedish dominance with writing
>> new articles about Sweden.  Yesterday, Saturday May 17, was
>> Norway's independence day but this didn't stop the Russians from
>> creating an article about the National holiday of Sweden, as well
>> as 50 other new articles pertaining to Sweden.
>>
>> From a Swedish perspective, this isn't too bad.  To quote ABBA:
>> "I feel like I win, when I lose" (Waterloo, 1974).
>>
>> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Проект:Швеция/Шведская_неделя
>
> I must congratulate the Russian (and Swedish) Wikipedians on their
> good humor.  It is something heartening to see amid the nationalist
> conflicts one sometimes encounters.
>
> I wish I could think of a good excuse for proposing a "Swedish Week"
> or "Russian Week" or something similar on the English Wikipedia.
>
>> It is surprising how well hockey-playing nations (Russia, Finland,
>> Sweden, Norway, Canada, USA, Germany, Poland, Czech Replublic) are
>> doing in Wikipedia.  Maybe this is what the Arabs should try.
>
> Clearly, the best way now for the WMF to promote free content in the
> Arab world is to sponsor an ice rink at Alexandria.  Pick-up contests
> between Russian and Swedish Wikipedians could only demonstrate the
> fine qualities of this game to our Egyptian hosts, and encourage its
> broader adoption as an educational tool.
>
> Thanks,
> Pharos
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Ziko van Dijk
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