Regarding Japanese article count:
yes, the number is kind of inaccurate. The problem is not unique to
Japanese, but shared with Chinese and others, I believe. The reason is as
pointed out - Japanese writing can go in length without an alphabetical
comma.
The problem has been known to some Japanese users, because one user
translted [[Wikipedia:What is an article]] and noticed the article count's
behavior. I also experimented with a fairly long article (10921 bytes). As
soon as I deleted all the commas and saved, the article count dropped one.
When I reverted, the count went up one.
I then wrote about it in [[Wikipedia_talk:What is an article]], but I guess
it didn't get much attention. I am glad to find out that elian brought this
up on this list.
Regarding Embassy, I don't mind setting one up on English wiki, (I'm a
native Japanese speaker and understand English okay), but I am afraid I
cannot fully function as an ambassador. Is a limited staffer embassy and
part-time ambassador accepted?
Tomos
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