[Foundation-l] Promoting non-en Wikipedias (was In defence of Google)

[geni]

On 1/22/07, Till Weber <peterpanini at gmx.net> wrote:
> André,
> thanks for the list of all languages.
> IMHO the spread of wikipedia in small languages would be better, if all these languages >appear in the left menue-bar of the wikipedia for each article. Then users see, if an article >is already existent in their or other language and they can translate one from another >language,. so the bi-languists can help to get the number of articles bigger, and then other >users in the original language can complete or expand the article.
> If the article exists, then search engine swill attract more users. To read an edit again.
> So please ask the technicians, to add these languages to the side menue bar and as well >a the html code under each language, that the article in all languages exist, event there, >where the article page is empty or does not exist, then we can translate each article.
>

How are we meant to know what the articles should be called in that language?

> So these languages you mention above 20 Mio users should be default on each wikipedia >article in each countryor language.
>

Have you any idea how much that would suck in the classic skin.
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geni