Hi Gerard, Indeed, people need news. But they can be produced also with more sence having accomplishments: All mayors of our capital have an article, the 50 most important folk singers, great illustrated articles on the fauna and flora of our region... Kind regards Ziko
2009/8/20 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > Hoi, > For some of our smaller projects, the number of articles are the only > milestones available. It is necessary to celebrate progress. It is > meaningful when the Swahili Wikipedia becomes the biggest African language > Wikipedia. It is meanigful when you compare it with most of the other > African language projects that have no life in them. > > I agree that on many levels the numbers game is of little relevance however > it becomes relevant when there is a need for the celebration of progress in > a project. A need to be motivated to go on with the gigantic task that is > writing a Wikipedia. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/8/20 Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com> > >> I couldn't agree more, Erik. Not paying attention to "milestones" is >> the first and best step; Wikipedia:Signpost should start with it. >> Ziko >> >> 2009/8/20 Erik Zachte <erikzac...@infodisiac.com>: >> >> > I concur wholeheartedly. Focusing on rising article counts gave us a >> thrill >> > for many years, and now it is difficult to kick the bad habit. >> >> > On a small wikipedia (at least most of them) there is simply not enough >> of a >> > community to drive this semi automated article creation process. >> > >> > I think it would help if we discouraged any bragging on the 4th millionth >> > article in the English Wikipedia at all and downplayed any inquiries from >> > the media. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Ziko van Dijk >> NL-Silvolde >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
