Hum, you are very right with language issue
But, even if this list is in english, it is the main
list, so issues discussed here are likely to impact
all wikipedias
Then, we should stop this. Please don't claim this is a
policy then you've got to conform that.
Besides, that the french silliness with comma hunting
that has been going on for about a month, that explain
this subject being raised again. But the issue is not
new :-)
My opinion is simple enough. We should stop governing non-
English wikipedias by English'd government.
Therefore, the
discussion here
should
be irrelevant and we should move this to each
wikipedia's
village pump.
Yes and no.
It is not irrelevant, for some people thrive on
monitoring the number of articles, and many
internationals are eager to go up in the rank.
For those, it is important that the numbering
technique be the same, for the comparison to stay
valid.
Why do we have to compare in the first place? We are not
doing race where who reaches first milestone among non-
English editions.
On the other hand, it would be interesting that
discussions go in parallele in pump (of coffee shop
:-)) for everyone to feel involved
Not feel but all of people must be involved. Unless that, we
can claim the consensus is based on the public.
My feeling is that counting technique should maybe be
related to the language family.
That is my point. Couting should vary according to the
language or something like family.
By the way, I posted an issue at village pump of
ja.wikipedia. Hopefully they give me (not us, though) more
thoughts.