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2009/8/21 Ole Palnatoke Andersen <palnatoke at gmail.com>:
> I assume that your contributions have been made under another username
> or anonymously, as I do not recall seeing anything from Bruger:Svip.

My username on all Wikimedia wikis is "Svippong".  Svip was unfortunately taken.

2009/8/21 dex2000 <sir48 at lite.dk>:
> The merits of localization aside, making localization for the Danish Wiki a
> reason for its lagging behind the other Nordic Wikis is really beside the
> point. As an old-timer on da:, I can confirm that meeting untranslated or
> bad messages on the Danish Wikipedia is a very unusual experience.

Well, I did some time ago run into a very strange writing "the bot"
(which translated as "botten", which made it make even less sense if
it hadn't been translated) and a word like "start" was misspelt as
"stard".

> For the record, the Danish Wikipedia is doing fine. I¨m sure that it¨s level
> of "ridiculous articles" is in no way  different from any other Wikipedia. A
> Danish newspaper recently made an informal comparison between the "official"
> encyclopedia "Den store danske" on the internet and the Danish Wikipedia,
> where Wikipedia came out on top.

While I realise, the specific chosen articles in that article did
relatively fine, the Danish Wikipedia is lagging in areas where it
could be a lot better.  Articles about Danish geography and famous
writers is severely lagging.

But just because there are a lot of stubs is not the real concern.  I
remember reading an article on Skagen on the dawiki, and the article
explicit said that in 5400 years, the sands around it would have
reached Sweden.  This is obviously a single example, but unfortunately
it is not extraordinary.

> I recommend anybody really concerned about the state of the Danish language
> and/or the state of the Danish Wikipedia to write and correct articles. It
> will pay off better than doing localization.
>
> Allow me to suggest that some explanation for the lag in article numbers and
> contributors is the fact that Danish summers are more sunny and winters less
> severe than is the case in our northern neighbourhood :-) .