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Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Language versions' popularity vs. number of
From:       <chamdalae () dreamwiz ! com>
Date:       2006-03-29 6:30:17
Message-ID: 20060329063017.0000C2FC039002B9 () mail18 ! dreamwiz ! com
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Mark,
I don't agree with all of your conclusions here....

> What this says to me is that these Wikipedias are not attracting new
> pages proportional to views when compared with other Wikipedias. This
> may be because people don't want to write new pages, but it seems to
> me more likely that people simply don't know they can.

There are all kinds of possible reasons for this. It isn't necessarily because \
non-Europeans (and the wikipedias you seem to be referring to are mostly non-European \
wikipedias) are less likely to know that they can write new articles. Perhaps people \
are less interested in writing new articles, perhaps they're content with the \
articles that are there, or perhaps they have other ways to spend their time. Perhaps \
they _are_ increasingly writing new articles - some of the wikipedias you listed \
might still be small, but they are growing rapidly.

> How can this be fixed? Perhaps a site notice inviting people to write
> quality pages or register, or a drive to recruit new Wikipedians from
> the academic community.

I think here you're confusing the issues of quantity and quality. Writing 'quality \
pages', or inviting academics to do so, isn't the way to boost page count quickly. \
And I'm sure many academics would be less interested in the number of articles a \
wikipedia has than the quality of those articles anyway. Perhaps it would be better \
to forget about page count and focus on improving the overall quality of wikipedia.

Hyunsung

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