[Foundation-l] When is a Wikipedia not a Wikipedia ?

Mon Apr 14 11:24:55 UTC 2008

A difficult question, whether to accept that or not. It is against some
basic ideas about WP (What WP ist not: not a database, not a dictionary etc.
On the other hand, WPs are free to define their criteria for relevance and
enjoy a large degree of autonomy anyway.
In WPs for groups of dialects (like Alemannic, Lox Saxon etc.) they also
indicate the dialect in which an article is written, like: "This article was
written in the language of Zürich". In a way, this is also a certain
difference from a "normal" Wikipedia, where only one difined standard
language (even with regional specialties, like A.E. and B.E. or Australian
English) is the language of that language edition.
However - these kinds of developments will make it more and more difficult
to compare Wikipedia language editions to each other.
Ziko

2008/4/14, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> When you go from one Wikipedia <http://wikipedia.org/> to the next, you
> always expect an encyclopaedia. You expect things to be largely the same
> but
> in a different language. According to Bugzilla bug
> 13578<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13578>,
> this is something that will change. The Alemannic community have found
> that
> having a Wikipedia, a Wikibooks, a Wiktionary and a Wikiquote is more then
> they can chew off.
>
> What the Alemannic community has decided is to fold all the projects into
> their Wikipedia and have separate name spaces for the content of their old
> projects.  Their communities seem to have
> decided<
> http://draft.blogger.com/:als:Wikipedia:Treffen_der_Wikipedianer/Sommertreffen_2007/Protokoll#Andri_alemannischi_Proj.C3.A4kt
> >on
> this, they want their name spaces now or they will move all their
> content
> into the Wikipedia name space.
>
> What I wonder is if this is something that the wider community is aware
> off
> and, if this is considered to be acceptable. When such major changes are
> going to happen, it makes sense to include the change to the more
> appropriate gsw language tag.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
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