>> You have an expert knowledge in this topic, namely the knowledge of >> Russian language. Most of English Wikipedia editors don't. >> <...> > > Most unilingual English editors are surprised by the vast quantity of > low hanging fruit. Out of curiosity at one time I looked up the fairly > common Spanish name "Reyes" in the original 70 volume "Enciclopedia > universal ilustrada". I found 30 individuals there with that simple > uncompounded surname. Only two of these appeared in the English > Wikipedia, and only one of the two in the Spanish Wikipedia. Could > something similar be said of the great Soviet Encyclopedia? I have > before looked at a couple short encyclopedic works in Russian, one > relating to hockey and one to movies. Both did address their subject as > it related to the United States as well as their own country. Comparably
> sized American publications would leave the reader wondering if there > even was such a thing as a Russian film industry. The dismissive > attitude that Russian works were written by Communists becomes quite > thin in subjects that are inherently apolitical. > Indeed, 7 out of 19 articles I created over three weeks are in Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (and about a dozen of more among those I expanded as well). One of these (on a folklorist Anna Astakhova, which I started today) does not exist in Russian Wikipedia. Admittedly all of them (in GSE, not those I created) are very short and hardly useful for creation a Wikipedia article - although GSE gives a clear proof of notability, just in case. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
