[Foundation-l] Re: 2M articles

Wed Jun 1 04:25:42 UTC 2005

Nod

But *this* announcement would not be a global one. Launching article 
quality survey is of great interest for the english wikipedia due to its 
size. It is of much reduced interest for smaller language (as the lack 
of interest in validation topics by minor languages show in meta).

Wikipedias are at different stages of development. 2M global article can 
help smaller languages get a press announcement. I am not sure they 
would dare send a "quality survey" if their project is 11 254 articles. 
Journalists are more likely to have a great laugh :-)

Ant

Erik Moeller a écrit:
> David:
> 
>> Eeek! Please let article rating run experimentally for a while! We can 
>> wait
>> on telling the world when we're actually getting useful results from 
>> it ...
> 
> 
> I wasn't thinking of an announcement like "Wikipedia is now the greatest 
> thing ever, thanks to article validation!" but something more along the 
> tune of "Wikipedia launches article quality survey", as an invitation 
> for outside individuals to participate. Such a press release could 
> clearly point out the nature of the experiment.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Erik