That's my attitude to the letter; I may occasionally translate stuff
into Polish Wikipedia, but rarely bother with more than what we would
classify as a start-level entry. The only part where I'd differ is that
I'd say "My time is better spent expanding another [English] article
that isn't yet good enough", as I work under the assumption that many
more Poles know English than English-speakers know Polish. Why bother
contributing much to a project which has <1 billion speakers... :)*
*disclaimer: I don't mean to belittle efforts to save dying languages,
or bringing knowledge to people who live in places where learning
English is difficult; my scorn concerns only languages which don't
classify under these criteria, and even there I acknowledge the
existence of generational digital/language divide issues.
--
Piotr Konieczny
"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's
laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski
On 10/30/2012 11:49 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
It would be good to extend the research of War of 1812 to non-English
Wikipedias.
I've had a quick look and it is surprising how many of the articles
'pretty good', but none are very good. I think that there is a depth
level at which non-English writers say 'I could easily add more, but
the [non-English] article is good enough; if you want more detail
you'll almost certainly know English language and should go read the
English article. My time is better spent expanding another
[non-English] article that isnt yet good enough.'
John Vandenberg.
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On Oct 29, 2012 3:28 AM, "Steven Walling" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Richard Jensen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Look at it demographically: apart from teenage boys coming of
age, the population of computer-literate people who are
ignorant of Wikipedia is very small indeed in 2012. That was
not true in 2005 when lots of editors joined up and did a lot
of work on important articles.
You seem to be disregarding the entirety of the developing world
and non-English speakers in that statement.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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