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Edit request from Lintu, 16 September 2010

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Hi there,

seems like the Romanian wikipedia is finally over 150.000 articles. Would like to move it to the right category.

Thanks, Andrei.

Lintu (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move request

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Template:Wikipedialang → Template:Wikipedia languages — Should be changed for better readability. This template is rarely used, speaking of quantity, but used on the Main Page, so I think that it requires a discusssion. The template was created in 2006, when there have been thousands of different writing styles in template names. One used CamelCase, the other one wrote all in one word and so on, making things harder to remember. Nowadays, pretty much all uses the spelling how it's proper English, just like in the article titles. In this case, I'd propose a rename to "Wikipedia languages": This is the section name how it's used on the Main Page, thus making it easy to identify. I generally also feel that these templates of that kind on the Main Page should best always reflect the corresponding section name, so should it ever be changed, this name should so, too. Of course, I could understand possible doubts about it being a Main Page template, but that shouldn't be any problem. We'd just have to move the template, just as we move any article. The created redirect will automatically be protected as long as this template is protected, so no space for a vandal to harm Wikipedia. We might then correct the redirect on the Main Page, but that wouldn't be necessary, since redirects are cheap. --The Evil IP address (talk) 16:07, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given the lack of complaints about this, I wouldn't expect these similar changes to be controversial. As noted above, there really isn't any harm at all, so I'll go ahead and move the templates. —David Levy 17:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update Values

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Could an administrator copy over the code at Template:Wikipedia languages/sandbox to Template:Wikipedia languages? Since both the French and German Wikipedias now have more than one million articles, as seen here. Thanks. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 273° 31' 0" NET 18:14, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —WWoods (talk) 16:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've reverted. The addition of such a top-level tier (containing one or few Wikipedias) has been proposed on numerous occasions and consistently rejected by the community. (This includes more than one recent proposal for a "more than 1,000,000 articles" tier at Talk:Main Page.)
We didn't reach consensus to add the "more than 500,000 articles" tier until eight Wikipedias qualified. —David Levy 16:57, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal

See Talk:Main Page#Proposal: Add million-article level to Wikipedia Languages section

The Transhumanist    03:38, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese at 150,000+

{{editprotected}} The Vietnamese Wikipedia is over 150,000 articles. Please move the link to the correct section. --Yair rand (talk) 19:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Done [stwalkerster|talk] 20:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Azerbaijani wikipedia

Hi. Please add Azerbaijani wikipedia ([[az:]]) to "More than 50,000 articles" section. So last week we have reached 50.000 articles: 10 000+ articles--Wertuose (talk) 21:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm somewhat hesitant on this. I went through the Azerbaijani Special:Random and a lot of the articles it took me to were very small, some of them even completely empty. We generally have criteria beyond the number of pages in the mainspace. I'd like to hear other opinions. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes we have empty articles, but most of them were created by one user and all of his articles about Azerbaijan cinematography. We are working on this problem. May be we will delete some of this empty articles. But our principle about small articles is that small article must contain main necessary knowledge about subject of article. Ofcourse in future we will enlarge them. Wertuose (talk) 10:44, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, I'm seeing mostly stubs and placeholders (on both cinematic and geographic subjects). This Wikipedia doesn't appear to meet our qualitative criteria. —David Levy 12:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
According to your methods of defining quality of Wikipedia I also went through the Estonian and Croatian wikis, which are in the "More than 50,000 articles" section. And I found that a lot of the articles are very small, some of them even completely empty, there were a lot of stubs and placeholders. As an administrator of Azerbaijani Wikipedia I must say that our wiki is much better than this two wikis. So what can you say about it? Wertuose (talk) 22:16, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm waiting for your respond. Wertuose (talk) 08:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In my review it doesn't seem to compare that favorably against those two Wikipedias yet. There just too many more placeholders in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia. It looks like the project is on the right track though, and in any case, listing on the English Wikipedia page isn't really that central to improving the Azerbaijani Wiki. It's also not that bad though, so I wouldn't really oppose very strenuously, and not at all if the placeholders were improved. - Taxman Talk 15:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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