On 9 Jan 2005, at 20:40, David Gerard wrote:
(Of course, there's a good reason not to do *too*
much special with
the top
several languages: at some point other languages are going to make that
list, and if we ever want to prune it back they'll resent being dropped
from that status.)
My thinking is that ''instead'' of sticking with the exact numbers
50 000 +
10 000–50 000
1000–10 000 and
100–1000
as selection criteria and promoting the various language Wikipedias
higher as they meet higher thresholds,
again, ''INSTEAD'' of doing that, we should keep roughly four groups
and just ''adjust the thresholds''.
So if in the future we were to have, say, 12 Wikipedias over 50 000 and
30 Wikipedias over 10 000, we should NOT have 12 and 35 items
(respectively) in the top two groups, but we should adjust the
thresholds -- of the top 12, maybe only 6 might be over 500 000 and of
the 35 maybe only 15 might be over 50 000. So we simply make change the
4 group's thresholds to, for example:
500 000 +
50 000–500 000
10 000–50 000 and
100–10 000
This would rightly give emphasis to our "most wanted" Wikipedias and
avoids cluttering the screen too much.
This concept only would need to be changed if, say, our 30 biggest
Wikipedias were to turn out becoming very similarly sized.
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