On 9 Jan 2005, at 20:40, David Gerard wrote:
(Of course, there's a good reason not to do *too* much special with the top several languages: at some point other languages are going to make that list, and if we ever want to prune it back they'll resent being dropped from that status.)
My thinking is that ''instead'' of sticking with the exact numbers 50 000 + 10 000–50 000 1000–10 000 and 100–1000 as selection criteria and promoting the various language Wikipedias higher as they meet higher thresholds, again, ''INSTEAD'' of doing that, we should keep roughly four groups and just ''adjust the thresholds''.
So if in the future we were to have, say, 12 Wikipedias over 50 000 and 30 Wikipedias over 10 000, we should NOT have 12 and 35 items (respectively) in the top two groups, but we should adjust the thresholds -- of the top 12, maybe only 6 might be over 500 000 and of the 35 maybe only 15 might be over 50 000. So we simply make change the 4 group's thresholds to, for example: 500 000 + 50 000–500 000 10 000–50 000 and 100–10 000
This would rightly give emphasis to our "most wanted" Wikipedias and avoids cluttering the screen too much.
This concept only would need to be changed if, say, our 30 biggest Wikipedias were to turn out becoming very similarly sized.
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