Comments

Comments

Few comments:

  • Some languages will never have the critical mass of editors
  • "bigger wikipedia" are draining potentials users from "smaller wikipedia"

One thing that can be do is to "draft" editors from those big wikipedia. Using the user page infoboxes (the language ones), we can identify potential editors for those smalls wikipedia and incite them to "export" articles from big wikipedia to small wikipedia. Usually it's the other way around with editors importing article to their usual editing language space. Difficulties lay on which articles and how bothersome the "export" action will. Which article should be export in priority? What are the potential issues when loggin to destination wiki and with different standard in terms of Manual of Style and templates.

KrebMarkt19:55, 27 December 2009

yes... the smaller wikis tend to be more informal. But trying to support translation to build up core articles in each language would be worth supporting, I think. We could probably do more with templates on en:wp, as the largest wikipedia.

Phoebe01:20, 8 January 2010