Chuck Smith wrote:
I think we should hire full-time editors especially
for the non-English Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia
had a full-time Larry Sanger to help jump-start the
Wikipedia, but the other languages (to my knowledge)
never had such luxuries. As I said before, I would
What is the hurry?
A lot of the Wikipedias who have now a active comunity and many articles
have started very slow whit only 1 or 2 members.
I remember the very early period of the Dutch Wikipedia, it looks now so
long ago... Very few people. Every new vistor used to be a real event.
The first 100 articles... Trying to find out how to be a Wikipedia, a
real one, not just a copy of the Mother of all Wikipedias, the English.
Yes, it takes time. But you need it. It creates a social structure and a
history. Whit hired full-time editors you do the opposite of the
Wikipedia way. Wikipedia is a encyclopedia by the people for people. If
the people of a language are not interested to create a wikipedia the do
not get a wikipedia.
Look at the Frysk Wikipedia. The first version is from +/- september
2002. Many months almost no activity. Now it is a very small but active
Wikipedia. The change from a usemod Wikipedia to the MediaWiki version,
that can give a jump to a wikipedia.
I know there are not enough Brion's to do all the work. But faster
technical support and reponds to requests from small Wikipedias is
important.
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