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

Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella at yahoo.it
Wed Oct 10 19:23:30 UTC 2007


Francis Tyers schrieb:
> 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
I completely agree to this statement :-)

Cheers, Sabine

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