[Wikipedia-l] Adding articles to small wikipedias

Sat Mar 4 05:14:31 UTC 2006

I took a quick poll amongst the adminstrators of scn.wiki (all 4 of us!) - the feeling was quite unanimous - we pride ourselves on having got up to 4,500 odd articles without any assistance from a bot and we much prefer to continue going down that route.

  I agree with Slavik on all counts - adding tens of thousands of articles to a small wikipedia just because you can is of no real value.  A handful of people are never going to get through a fraction of that quantity of articles in terms of checking them, adding to them, etc.  On the other hand, covering all countries and major cities of the world (approx.  500 articles?) does not seem such a bad idea.  However, for the moment, scn.wiki is quite happy to continue plodding along at our  unspectacular, but steady, rate.  
  Salutamu.
  pippu d'angelo

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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:17:01 +0300
From: "V. Ivanov" 
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] RFC: Principles of mass content adding on
small Wikipedias
To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
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Well, what should the people from a smaller Wikipedia do to become a
testing place for the new project? I am ready to cooperate about the
Ossetic (and probably also Chuvash and Udmurt) wikipedia. Really,
thousands of new articles might be a not so good idea, but creating
stubs about all countries and probably about the largest cities of the
world sounds good.

So, what is the algorythm?

Slavik IVANOV
os, ru, udm: User:Amikeco

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