[Wikipedia-l] Junking Spanish Wikipedia?

[Ray Saintonge]

Axel Boldt wrote:

>The Enciclopedia libre at http://enciclopedia.us.es/ is much larger
>and more active than the Spanish Wikipedia at http://es.wikipedia.com/
>
>I think we should junk our Spanish Wikipedia, provide a link to their
>site on our main page (they probably don't like to be called
>Wikipedia, so we could simply say "non-English sister projects") and
>have our interwiki links point to them rather then to the Spanish
>Wikipedia.
>
>And if we ask nicely, we may even get a link back to wikipedia.com.
>
>P.S. I would assume that over time, other international Wikpedias will
>prefer to operate out of their own countries, to improve connection
>speeds and gain more contol, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
>
This may very well become standard procedure for all languages, but it 
would make more sense to discuss this issue in general terms rather than 
doing it separately for each language.  Perhaps some kind of 
co-operation agreements might be the way to go.

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