[Wikipedia-l] Volapük Wikipedia is the 15th largest?

Francis Tyers spectre at ivixor.net
Tue Oct 9 13:11:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:03 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 10/9/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If a small wiki decides to fill out its page count with largely
> > untranslated articles from en:wp, that's really not building a wiki or
> > a community, is it.
> 
> Exactly. If we wanted that we could adjust mediawiki to fall through
> to the enwp text. ;)
> 
> and If we wanted a machine translation we wouldn't bother with the
> whole multiple wikis thing.

Machine translation has a useful, and under-used place to play in the
development of smaller Wikipedias.

Fran

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