On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:27:58 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
People like you are far too worried about the
"disproportionately
small"-ness of zh.wikipedia. Given the small percentage of zh.wiki
users that would actually gravitate to a new Wikipedia of this type,
it would make almost no difference in the size of zh.wiki, and zh.wiki
is already huge (it used to have a few hundred articles, then 10k
would've been huge, but now it just has got to be bigger or it is way
too small) and is growing at a good enough rate that such a minor draw
away from it would be compensated for completely in less than two
months.
With all due respect, this is selective spin.
19,000 articles is decent, but it's not "huge."
Most everyone in the ZH community knows the periodic inaccessibility
in the PRC starting in June 2004 has hurt growth, so every dedicated
member is important. If you look at the stats, only at the end of last
year did ZH get "active wikipedians" back to the level of May 2004.
There are only about 40 "very active" Wikipedians, and the number of
"new Wikipedians" has not recovered, regressing back to February 2004
levels.
A wiki with one person can be a very lonely place. Seems a better use
of resources to have the Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wu (linguistics) and
related pages in better shape, than to start a new Wikipedia with one
person.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/苏州
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/杭州
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴方言
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Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado)