[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Marcus Buck wrote:
>
> I don't think that there are generally too few people interested in 
> those languages. It's just hard to make the start. It's immensely 
> frustrating to work on a wiki all alone, writing article for article, 
> and after a year, you maybe have 100 or 200 articles and your Wikipedia 
> is still just a little heap of disjunct articles with hardly any blue 
> links and you realize that it will take years (or decades) until you 
> have written enough articles to establish a resource, that is 
> interconnected through blue links and covering all basic concepts. 
I think in this situation a useful page that Danny Wool
and a few of his friends thought up a few years ago,
and has been improved upon subsequently by diverse
hands, might help.

I am of course thinking about the list of 1000 articles
each wikipedia should have. Just completing a
significant part of that list is an accomplishment for
a tiny pool of editors, but is within reach, and
can serve as a useful incentive.

BTW, I understand there is some work being done
currently to define a tinier subset of that list, which
could be even better for projects with fewer contributors,
which would define what the really really really core
encyclopaedia articles are.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen