[Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Marcus Buck
Several wikis have used bots to increase their article count in the past. Examples are the Volapük Wikipedia (vo) with 118,000 articles of which about 117,000 are bot-created stubs or the Aromanian Wikipedia (roa-rup) with 61,000 articles at the moment and less than 10,000 before the bot

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: ... In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that speaks against this in general. The prospect of providing at least basic information about millions of objects in all the different languages

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Marcus Buck
Am 23.08.2010 18:20, schrieb Ole Palnatoke Andersen: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote: ... In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that speaks against this in general. The prospect of providing at least basic information about

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 August 2010 17:23, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:  Am 23.08.2010 18:20, schrieb Ole Palnatoke Andersen: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org  wrote: In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that speaks against this in general.

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Marcus Buck
An'n 23.08.2010 18:31, hett David Gerard schreven: It'll be multilingual in the same way as Meta or Commons or our other cross-language-border projects. So, English then? ;-p Yep, de facto English ;-) I don't like it and I spend much time to improve the usefulness of Commons for

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum) instead of the Village pump. That will

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

2010-08-23 Thread Marcus Buck
An'n 23.08.2010 19:20, hett Magnus Manske schreven: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki like they did on Commons. E.g.