Re: Quality vs Quantity
> My doubt on the subject is that people come and write what they please
> (usually a few lines, more rarely a proper article), so how do you manage to
> plan your content? I'll be grateful for any info you can share.
Well, if I'm writing an article from scratch, I usually search for
information in encyclopedias and different books (mostly in Italian),
I gather them than I write down a first textual version, that I'll
later wikify. But there are also articles started from other people,
even anonymous, and they usually add just few infos as you said. We
usually try to add thing like their bibliography or more about their
life, even if there is always the problem that you don't find much on
Internet, so it's a heavier work. And consider also that (like you
AFAIK) I don't live in Friuli, so I can't access to many sources
normally. This is a problem that people usually think is limited to
developing countries, but it affects also smaller, minorized language
in the Western world. That of the forum could be a good idea, IMHO
this would be very useful (I'm thinking for example at bots for
international stuff like countries, or domains).
About school, you touch a big issue. Teaching is already mentioned in
1999 minority law, but it should *probably* start next year; there's a
lot of problems tough, I don't know if it will start but I hope so.
This would be a huge help, before it's too late. Here [
http://www.lenghe.net/read_art.php?articles_id=1243&PHPSESSID=f5a34db500ea3ae9e89f2a14b8ec5ea2
] you can for example see that CGIL (which is one of the main trade
unions in Italy) is opposing since "the 50% of the teacher come from
elsewhere, and they don't speak Friulian.
>
> I think we should open a forum (with normal forum software, not a wiki) to
> host discussions among small wikies. We have our dimensions, problems and
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I think the Friulian Wikipedia should be a shining example for other Wikipedias -- since the very beginning, it has had good quality articles, written in official orthography, and dedicated contributors, even when they didn't have much time for fur.wiki. (I have kept an eye on it because I helped place the initial request for it and I think the language is beautiful) Your attitude of quality over quantity is unique among Wikis of that size and deserves applause and attention, especially as you have paved the way for the Friulian language into the 21st century. Mark On 30/04/07, A. Decorte <adecorte@...> wrote: > Well, I talk as an admin of Friulian Wiki (fur.wiki). I don't like > thousand of stubs, I prefer less articles, but more complete. This > doesn't mean as complete as in big Wikis, because it would take me too > much time to translate a full article from, say, en.wiki, I usually > translate instead from the Wikipedia in Catalan, since they seem to > have a good balance between length and completeness. I also think > every wiki should rather add stubs that have good chances to develop. > We are currently adding the States of the world, since this is a > subject which is pretty well covered in other languages. I instead > said no to adding as stubs the 8000 "communites" of Italy. That > addition could bring us to the magic 10 000 threshold (we are at 2000) > but most of those articles IMHO will stay stub forever, since even in
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