Spanish speakers wouldn't like it to be called a Wikipedia because they really don't even like saying or hearing the "Wiki" part, both the "w" and the "k" sound being foreign and unpleasant.
Here's some data.
I just checked one name, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the greatest living writer in Spanish, probably, certainly the best known:
-- No article in the Spanish Wikipedia
-- Short article in the Enciclopedia Libre, short list of works, with all blank links or external links
-- Nice long article in the English Wikipedia with a much longer list of works with all blank links
Maybe we should investigate what we need to do to encourage and support translation?
Also, we should certainly offer or arrange to transfer the content of the Spanish Wikipedia to the Enciclopedia Libre and not just swap links.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
|From: Axel Boldt axel@uni-paderborn.de |Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:59:55 +0200 (MET DST) | |The Enciclopedia libre at http://enciclopedia.us.es/ is much larger |and more active than the Spanish Wikipedia at http://es.wikipedia.com/ |(in fact, it is by a large margin the biggest non-English free |encyclopedia and the third largest wiki in the world). | |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. | |Axel | |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. |