effe iets anders wrote: > I think that if the public does /not/ differentiate, that is actually > quite a compliment. That actually shows that the quality is better, > because it corrects for the lower quantity and the assumptions that > English must be better because more people. For example in the > Netherlands, a lot of people still say " well, yes, I use Wikipedia, > but of course only the English, which is much better and extensive" . > This while the Dutch version is absolutely not small (>500k articles) > and imho not with a very low quality. So if people don't > differentiate, that already tells something about the German version > :) > sorrowfully I don't know dutch and nl-wp, so I cannot say about why the dutch people would prefer en-wp. Maybe one of the reason is also because most dutch people are really multilinguals.
There are a few reasons why some german would go for en-wp but not de-wp. The first reason is history. Historically en-wp had more content and was better. de-wp had catch up a lot in the last two years. But if you had mostly used en-wp earlier, you would probably remain there and think it is still so. This is not so, I quite sure know that. I translate a lot of articles to zh-wp. Three years ago most of the translations come from en-wp. Now I even think I use more de-wp as basis for the translation than the en-wp. I think the threshold of notability (where in de-wp is far more higher than in en-wp). Say, I am interested in Simpsons, I would definitively go to en-wp which have far more content about topic as in de-wp. Not all peole search internet for information because they want to do research work. Most of people do it because they are simply interested in something, a place, a person or a movie, a game. In these cases a language version like the en-wp with a lower notability threshold is more useful. -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
