Yes, and that is why Wikipedia has something like 50 or 75 Wikipedias with over 1000 articles, but you folks at Wikitravel only have 5 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES TOTAL!
If you guys are truly concerned about internationalism, it might be a good idea to rethink policy a bit. If you''re not willing to change things completely, you could at least change the numbers from 5 contributors to 4 or 3 or 2, and require less detail in reports, and not closing down any Wiki if it has upwards of a cewrtai number of articles.
Of course, if you guys enjoy having only a couple languages all from rich Western European nations, I won't try to change your preferences.
mark
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:34:37 -0500, Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-11 at 13:34 +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
As has been pointed out, just the number of initial contributors is a bad indicator; but we do need some indication that a solid community is likely to emerge; and personally, I don't think number of fluent speakers (or even fluent speakers with net connections) provides this indication.
On Wikitravel, this is the deal:
1. There needs to be at least 5 users pledged to start up the wiki. 2. There needs to be one contact person for the new wiki. 3. The contact person has to make a monthly report about the state of the wiki: what's been happening, advances, debates, changes in policy or guidelines, etc. 4. If there's no or very little editing on the wiki for a month, or if the reports stop coming in, or if generally the thing just starts winding down, the wiki goes inactive. We turn off the wiki software, and make the content available in case someone else wants to use it.~ESP
-- Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org
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