Template talk:Wikipedia languages/Archive 3

message: sl: has reached 10,000! Can someone please change the thing on the international page? The link's here for you. Scott Gall 05:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The international page (www.wikipedia.org) really needs updating. What needs updating is the fact that sl: has reached 10,000; ja: has nearly 100,000 articles (NOT 97,000.) Thank you, Scott, for pointing out that sl: is in the 10,000-50,000 on the main page, but in the 1000-10,000 range on www.wikipedia.org. PLEASE will someone change it? 210.55.81.3 18:51, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: Thanks for that, 210.55.81.3. All it takes for people to note that sl: has reached 10,000 is get a developer, and ask them to move the link. I have proof that sl: has reached the 10K mark. I copied it from sl:'s main page, known in Slovenian as 'Glavna stran.'
Dobrodošli na strani Wikipedije v slovenščini! Vabimo vse, ki jih zanima izdelava spletne enciklopedije, da se nam pridružite in nam pomagate izdelati celotno enciklopedijo. Angleška različica Wikipedije je od 15. januarja 2001 zbrala prek 470.000 člankov, v slovenski pa je od 8. marca 2002 nastalo 10194 člankov. Vsebina Wikipedije je zaščitena z dovoljenjem GNU za rabo proste dokumentacije. Izdelava takšne enciklopedije vzame veliko časa, a je zabavna in nam tudi veliko povrne. Preskusite se v sestavljanju.
Če se še niste srečali s področjem strežnikov Wiki, si lahko preberete kratek opis zamisli, zgodovine in izdelkov WikiWiki (http://www.lugos.si/~peterlin/besedila/wiki.html), ki ga je napisal eden od naših uporabnikov. 20. septembra 2004 je Wikipedija je dosegla 1 milijon člankov v več kot 100 jezikih.
The 10194 is the number of articles in Slovenian. It's been done on the English main page, now please change it on the international page. It's not fair that our demands for developer assistance are not being met. Scott Gall 07:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. PLEASE adjust the international page.

message: Can you tell me why English Wikipedia is listed here? It makes no sense (on main page): "Wikipedia in other languages...English...". Other language to English is English? 81.168.225.212
:good point -- I think this at least should be uncontroversial. let's remove this non-link to self. dab (ᛏ) 10:57, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: I know this has had a long history of discussion but what do you think of this layout?  It's a little larger but it's more consistant with the main .org page. violet/riga (t) 12:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it looks nice, but it creates an artificial gap between 6th and 7th, which may be 10 articles apart for all we know (this is of course also my gripe with the portal page). dab (ᛏ) 11:00, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  new layout? 

message: Right after GeorgeStepanek bashes me for having no respect for the democratic process here on Wikipedia, he encourages Raul654 to take actions that are explicitly the opposite of what was decided by the majority in the illegitimate poll started by GeorgeStepanek.
There was clearly more support for starting at 1000+ than for starting at 10000+, but of course as Raul654 has demonstrated elsewhere in the past he doesn't care what the majority thinks, only what he thinks of the majority. --Node 21:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Starting at 10,000 - particularly without any other listing on the main page! - is both a bad idea, and something that should be discussed for more than one or two days before implementation.  I restored the Jan 27 layout. +sj + 08:04, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting 

message: someone could update this on front page ? Thanks. --Monkbel 00:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And Latvian as well, please. --Juzeris 22:20, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Breton (a Brythonic Celtic language spoken in north-western France) is >100. I have a reward of ψ15 for the admin who is so bold as to go and fix it up on  (the actual link is m:Www.wikipedia.org template, an HTML page.) Scott Gall 07:56, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belarusian is >1000 

message: In a fit of unilateralism, I recently converted many of Wikipedia's en dashes to middle dots or midpoints. Normally, en dashes and midpoints are not fungible, because en dashes are most often used to indicate range, as in 2001–2005, while midpoints, when they're not being used as punctuation in languages like Georgian, are used as separators between items in a flat list, as in Cats · Dogs · Hippopotami. However, in many cases, en dashes are used frequently on (at least) the English Wikipedia to differentiate list items – where midpoints would be more appropriate, typographically speaking. In addition, I replaced a few hyphens with midpoints. By no means, of course, can my few edits be considered exhaustive; several sets of dashes and hyphens were left unconverted (notably in the 'Selected anniversaries' and, it would appear, 'Today's featured article' templates, in which hundreds of separate pages would need to be edited to effect a consistent change) and the quiet precedent established when I myself converted lots of hyphens to en dashes spurred other people to make changes of their own, unbeknown to me.
Here's an example of an en dash to midpoint conversion:
; Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 50,000 articles: Deutsch (German)  – Français (French) –  日本語 (Japanese) – Nederlands (Dutch) – Polski (Polish) – Svenska (Swedish) 
; Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 10,000 articles: Български (Bulgarian) –  Català (Catalan) – Dansk (Danish) –  Esperanto – Español (Spanish) – Suomi (Finnish) –  עברית (Hebrew) – Italiano (Italian) – Norsk (Norwegian) – Português (Portuguese) – Română (Romanian) – Русский (Russian) – Slovenščina (Slovenian) – Српски (Serbian) –Українська (Ukrainian) – 中文 (Chinese)
; Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 1,000 articles:Afrikaans – العربية (Arabic) – Asturianu (Asturian) – Беларуская (Belarusian) – Bosanski (Bosnian) – Česká (Czech) – Cymraeg (Welsh) – Ελληνικά (Greek) – Eesti (Estonian) – Euskara (Basque) – فارسی (Persian) – Frysk (Western Frisian) – Gàidhlig (Scots Gaelic) – Galego (Galician) – हिन्दी (Hindi) – Hrvatski (Croatian) – Magyar (Hungarian) – Ido – Interlingua – Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) – Íslenska (Icelandic) –  한국어 (Korean)  – Kurdî / كوردی (Kurdish) – Latina (Latin)  – Latviešu (Latvian) – Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) –  Lietuvių (Lithuanian) – Bahasa Melayu (Malay) – Nynorsk – संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) – Simple English – Slovenčina (Slovak) – ภาษาไทย (Thai)– Türkçe (Turkish) – Tatarça (Tatar) – Walon (Walloon)
Complete list –
Multilingual coordination –
Start a Wikipedia in another language
to
Most of my edits, in fact, were made to transcluded templates.
The conversion is beneficial because of the typographic reason mentioned above (besides, there is no historical justification for using en dashes or hyphens instead). Also, midpoints are smaller – thus more economical – than en dashes. And a more technical reason: according to Meta, the middle dot (·) is an extended ASCII character that is 'safe for use in all Wiki pages'. En dashes, on the other hand, are described as 'possibly unsafe'.
There remains at least one question, viz., how shall we enter this character? I favor using the 'named character entity reference' for a few reasons:
*No keyboard that I know of has a · key, so direct input is infeasible. If we were to simply copy and paste the character in order to reproduce it, as it seems to have been done under the 'Content' header at the Commons main page, then people wouldn't know how to write a new one if a copyable specimen were not available. They could always open up a character map, but...oh, forget it! I should stop rambling.  
*The numeric character identity reference, in this case ·, is apparently unloved by some older browsers, which 'incorrectly interpret [numeric references] as references to the native character set'. I find it difficult to care about older browsers (last month, for example, 0.2% of W3Schools visitors used Netscape 4), but some people, of course, do care. What concerns me more is the difficulty in remembering to write · when a midpoint is called for, compared to ·, which can be recalled far more readily.
What remains? As I edit, now, I see that below the text box there's the word 'Insert:' followed by a bunch of clickable special characters; clicking one causes it to be inserted. Presumably, this rash of JavaScript is part of the 'edit toolbar' and thus part of the software; I can't find a template anywhere with which I could edit it. It already includes the useful and wondrous – and —, but · is absent, likely because the character isn't (hitherto, provided my edits are not quickly reverted in disgust) used much in Wikipedia. The midpoint would be a useful addition to this toolbar if the character becomes standard WP practise for separating list items when commas are inappropriate.
Thank you for your time. Chris Roy 01:22, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning is where the javascript lives. -- ALoan (Talk) 23:19, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Midpoints

message: The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has more than 1,000 articles. Could a sysop please find the following code in this template:
 Tatarça (Tatar) · 
And add the following code after it:
 Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) · 
Thanks. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 00:30, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnamese Wikipedia 

message: Wikipedia in Javanese or Basa Jawa now has more than 1,000 article. Can someone please update this please? Thank you! Meursault2004 17:33, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — mark ✎ 16:54, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Javanese Wikipedia 

message: I was surfing around, and I noticed the Estonian (Eesti) Wikipedia is now over 10K. I'm just posting this as a heads-up; since I'm an admin, I can make the change myself (I think). Dale Arnett 00:29, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Estonian Wikipedia 

message: Marathi Wikipedia has crossed 1000 articles.
Can you please add  Marathi (मराठी)  in the list of  wikipedias  having more than  1000 articles
Thank you
Wces423
:Done.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:08, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
::Thank you - Wces423 07:04, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marathi > 1000 

message: Norwegian (nynorsk) has reached 10,000 articles. Please move it up to the proper section («Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 10,000 articles»). -- Olve 06:01, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. - BanyanTree 06:05, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! :-) Olve 07:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian (Nynorsk) has reached 10,000 articles 

message: David Cannon apparently noticed that the Vietnamese Wikipedia had reached 2,000 articles and mistakenly promoted it to the 10,000+ article section on this template. Please return it to the 1,000+ section. Thanks. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 23:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnamese Wikipedia still 1,000+ 

message: There's "Norsk (Norwegian)" and "Nynorsk". If you look at Norwegian language you'll find that "Nynorsk" is just as "Norwegian" as the other "Norsk" (which should be renamed to show what "Norsk" is meant). I propose these changes to better show what is meant:
* Norsk (Norwegian) > Norsk bokmål (Norwegian)
* Nynorsk > Norsk nynorsk (Norwegian)
Note that language names (such as bokmål and nynorsk) are written in lower case in Norwegian. --Dittaeva 18:11, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: *Done (a few days ago).--Pharos 13:06, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nynorsk is Norwegian too 

message: Faeroese has been over 1,000 articles for quite some time now...is there some reason why it hasn't been added to the template?  –Swid 21:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faeroese > 1,000 

message: Croatian passed the 10.000 mark. :-) Please move it to the corresponding section. Thanks. --Elephantus 11:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Croatian > 10,000 

message: Since the last time this was brought up, a whole bunch of the 50,000+ wikipedias have broken the 100,000 article mark. At the point that I wrote this, the Polish, German, French, Japanese, Swedish, and Italian Wikipedias have all gone over 100,000. And the Dutch Wikipedia is about to (I'd say in about 1 day). Do we need a new category? Or do we prefer to keep the Spanish and Portuguese in the same category as the other big Wikipedias are now? --Codemonkey 00:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: so, in other words, introducing the 'decimal' threshold at this point would amount to putting Spanish and Portuguese WPs to second tier. I'll do that, experimentally, to see how long it will last. dab (ᛏ) 12:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion, it's much better now. Gerrit CUTEDH 09:48, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  100,000 article mark again 

message: The Chuvash (Чăваш чěлхи) and Alemannic (Alemannisch) Wikipedias have passed the 1,000 article mark.  –Swid 19:57, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: added them dab (ᛏ) 12:32, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chuvash, Alemannic > 1,000 

message: so, how are we to order the list? there is still the same confusion, Suomi/Finnish appears under F,  Ivrit/Hebrew under H, but Farsi/Persian under F and  Hrvatski/Croatian under H. what gives? dab (ᛏ) 12:32, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't really matter to me which way it is ordered, just as long as it's consistent.  (That being said, ordering the list by the name of the language in English makes *slightly* more sense than by applying English alphabetization order rules to the list for the name each language has for itself (especially for languages written in non-Latin scripts).  –Swid 18:19, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and I have no preference myself. It is just badly inconsistent at the moment. dab (ᛏ) 08:10, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I think it's "supposed" to be by native name alphabetization as far as is possible, like the interwiki links.  I think I'll change Suomi/Finnish now.--Pharos 08:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: well, Chinese appears to be ordered as Zhongwen; but Korean under K, not Hangungmal. Japanese (Nihongo) should be after Dutch (Netherlands). Apart from that, it looks pretty consistent now; Simple English could conceivably be listed under E, not S. 130.60.142.65 06:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: alphabetical order

message: meaning, making the English name for the language a wikilink, e.g. instead of Deutsch (German), we would have Deutsch (German). 83.77.208.46 12:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Or even Deutsch (German), linking to the Wikipedia article on the German Wikipedia instead of the article on the German language? Gerrit CUTEDH 09:52, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: for those with >100,000 articles, fair enough; we probably don't have (and shouldn't have) articles on the minor projects. 81.63.63.37 10:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: how about linking language articles?

message: Ido reached the 10,000-article mark today; Corsu (Corsican) reached the 1,000-article mark last week.  –Swid 19:57, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hahaha, oops; I guess that's one of the reasons why you get to change the templates and I don't.  (At least it's fixed now.)  :-)  –Swid 05:17, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ido > 10,000; Corsican > 1,000 

message: Just to let you know that Neapolitan has reached more than 1000 articles (it now has about 3600). Thanks, Ronline 02:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neapolitan > 1,000 

message: Turkish has reached more than 10,000 articles. Tebrik ederiz! -- Murtasa 20:36, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkish > 10,000 

message: ::(moved from Talk:Main Page)
Can we standardize the grammatical form used for the local names of Wikipedias in other languages as they are listed on the main page of this Wikipedia? For many languages (e.g. English, French, German) it does not matter, but in e.g. the slavic languages it is currently a hodge podge.
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The Czech title is an adjective feminine nominative, translating as [the] Czech [Wikipedia].
The Slovak title is a nominative noun, translating as the Slovak language.
Some of the other Slavic names are adverbs, more or less translating as [Wikipedia] in Russian, etc.
Martinp 19:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: *are you saying the czechs refer to their wikipedia as 'czech' and not 'wikipedia'? --81.154.236.221 19:25, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's important to standardise, to the adjectival form that says "[xx] language" - i.e. "Czech language" etc, not the [the] Czech [Wikipedia] or the adverbs. For Romanian, the caption says "Română", from "limba română" (although it can also mean "Wikipedia română"), since both Wikipedia and limba are female nouns. But, the adjectival form should agree with the gender of "language" rather than "Wikipedia". For Czech, the correct form (i.e. the adjective relating to language) is, I think, čeština (the article in Czech about the language is located there) For Slovak, slovenčina (the correct form). Ronline 11:58, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally agree, but with a suggested modification. If there is a noun which means "the X language", should use that ('čeština and slovenčina as well as Deutsch are examples of that, actually). If there is no such noun, should use adjectival form which would apply (in the nominative) to the noun for "language". In many cases (e.g., English, français) the two are identical. Based on my knowledge of Czech, if someone prefers to propose it, I would also support using the adverb form (česky) in lieu of the above (but let's be consistent), but the adjectival form matching the noun Wikipedia (česká) just feels weird. Martinp 03:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local names of other wikipedias 

message: Galician Wikipedia has reached more than 10,000 articles.--Rocastelo 09:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galician > 10,000 

message: :moved from Talk:Main Page. 18:02, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Even at the start of a sentence / in a "menu"? — David Remahl 22:48, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  suomi, not Suomi 

message: Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached more than 10,000 articles, please update a list.Knutux 11:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Congratulations on your progress!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 13:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lithuanian > 10,000 

message: Malay Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. Can any admin please update it? Thanks! Hayabusa future 07:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Thanks, BanyanTree 09:27, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malay - 10,000 

message: Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 article, can anyone update it here and on the main portal of  Wikipedia.org?? Thanks in advance... --62.135.105.39 16:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic > 10,000 

message: On the main portal of Wikipedia.org for the Spanish link it says La enciclopedia libre. This means the free encyclopedia as in freedom not as in you don't have to pay to use it. it should say La enciclopedia gratis. Can anyone change this?  Tennis Dynamite 17:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see the archived discussion at Talk:Main Page/Archive 46#Mistake in the Spanish Main Page for an explanation.  Thanks, BanyanTree 23:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish 

message: Hello. Please change the Cebuano version of "Cebuano" to Sinugboanon. Sugboanon is the person, not the language. And the generally accepted spelling is Sugbo, not Sugbu, in Sinugboanon. Sugbu (the place) and Sugbuanon (language and person) are the Tagalog versions. Thanks!--Nino Gonzales 05:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for telling us about this. Updated now.  Ronline ✉ 06:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sinugboanon not Sugbuanon

message: Azerbaijani Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles. Can any admin please update it?
:There is no category for Wikipedias over 2,000 articles. All Wikipedias listed in the section "Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 1,000 articles" have between 1,000 and 9,999 articles. This includes Azerbaijani. So, until the Wikipedia will reach 10,000 articles, it will remain in that section. Sorry about that! I didn't realise that az.wiki wasn't listed at all. So, I have added it. Thanks,  Ronline ✉ 06:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Azerbaijani > 2000 

message: Persian Wikipedia has reached the 10k mark. Please update its status. Kaveh 00:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Congratulations!  You really only have four admins? - BanyanTree 00:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. In reality, we only have 1 active sysop and three long absent bureaucrats! Kaveh 01:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Persian > 10,000

message: Alemannic and Afrikaans seem to be ordered the wrong way round. Perhaps it was introduced with the midpoint conversion. --07:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetic ordering 

message: Please insert Thai's Wikipedia are over 10000--61.91.243.109 06:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank for changed--AkiAkira 10:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thai Wikipedia > 10000 

message: Hello, it's back to Sugbuanon again... it's supposed to be Sinugboanon... please see explanation a few headers above--Nino Gonzales 10:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  It looks like there was a cut and paste from an earlier history for the new main page design and this change wasn't caught.  Cheers, BanyanTree 16:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: It's back again to Sugbuanon

message: Azerbaijani Wikipedia with more than 2800 articles have been deleted by User:David Levy on March 19, 2006. Why ? Worrying !   Please restore. md 18:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He didn't delete it; he added it. [] – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Azerbaijani has been deleted  

message: Please add an interwiki link to the Vietnamese version of this template:
 vi:Tiêu bản:Ngôn ngữ Wikipedia
Thanks.
 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:01, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Petros471 12:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki link to vi: 

message: Just now, the Icelandic Wikipedia reached article no. 10.000!  If someone with system administration rights could change the template, it would be great.  Thanks ;) --Friðrik Bragi Dýrfjörð 22:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icelandic Wikipedia at 10.000+ 

message: The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles, but the admins at Meta haven't updated the portal for it yet. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 20:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kapampangan Wikipedia 

message: The Ripuarian/Kölsch Wikipedia has recently been created and is having some 3200+ Articles. (Currently @ #64 in this list) -- Purodha Blissenbach 03:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ripuarian/Kölsch Wikipedia 

message: Please comment on this proposal.
Hi. Can we replace the list of other languages [with something] similar to a tag cloud based on the number of articles? -- Sundar \talk \contribs 09:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That looks like a great idea.  At the moment searching for a particular language requires looking through three separate lists. One list with the major languages emphasised by larger, bolder fonts would get around that problem. Enchanter 13:02, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. If more people endorse this idea, we'll file a feature request. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 04:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:   —Ruud 03:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've created a better version. —Ruud 03:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perfect. Once consensus is reached, we should replace the current list with this cloud. May be, it's asking for too much, but, can this be made to update automatically? :-) -- Sundar \talk \contribs 08:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This looks quite interesting, though it is also quite a departure from typical straight-lines Wikipedia style.  I notice that you've omitted the native names in favor of the English ones, which might not be the best idea considering who we are trying to attract to these projects (people who can actually use them).  Using both English and native names might spoil the aesthetic effect, but if we are to use only one the native names would be more useful to readers with a potential interest.  Also German should be knocked down a notch, as it's just too prominent by itself.--Pharos 08:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think I need to experiment with the font size a bit, yes. Regarding the native names, I left them out here because it made the list look cluttered and to show that this setup leaves enough room to include smaller wikis. There are several option, however: do not include the native names (anyone ending up at en.wikipedia.org probably can read enough English to recognize his native language in this list), inlcude the native names in parenthesis behind the English name, inlcude the native names with the English name in parenthesis (and sort names in non-latin scripts in the order Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, Japanese; this might confuse English readers looking for the Finnish Wikipedia though), use two lists (one for the English names, one for the native names), also use interwiki links (which show up in the native name). —Ruud 10:20, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  What's the next step, a strw poll? -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I would support that.  Maybe we should put something up on Village Pump:Proposals.  Anyway, here's the native languages version of the tag cloud (if you look at the coding, I used a neat new feature to display the language names).--Pharos 22:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about a tag cloud? 

message: Now that both French and German have more than 500000pages, why don't we had a new section ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rigil (talk • contribs) 07:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over 500.000 

message: Few minutes ago, the Bosnian Wikipedia reached article no. 10.000! Could someone (administrators) change the template? Thank you! :) --Kahriman 21:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bosnian Wikipedia > 10,000 

message: The link for Armenian Wikipedia should read: "Հայերեն (Armenian)" -- currently, it reads "Main Page [in Armenian] (Armenian)". —this is messedrocker (talk) 06:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it was fixed. Thank you. —this is messedrocker (talk) 06:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, MessedRocker and IceKarma. --DanielNuyu 06:19, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armenian Wikipedia 

message: The following Wikipedias now have enough articles to put them in a different section:
* Slovak (sk; Slovenčina) has over 50,000
* Georgian (ka; Kartuli) has over 10,000
Also, since the order seems to be by the languages' transliterated native names, the following changes should probably be made:
* Japanese (Nihongo) should appear after Dutch (Nederlands)
* Serbian under "S" (Srpski)
* Korean (Hangugeo) after Hebrew (‘Ivrit)
* Simple English under either "S" or "E" (but not first)
** If Simple English is placed under "S", then Thai (Phasa Thai) would come before it.
* Greek (Ellinika) after Estonian (Eesti)
* The name for the Neapolitan language is Nnapulitano; I think napulitana is an adjective.
Ardric47 23:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All good now. —Mets501 (talk) 19:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The languages were "offically" ordered by domain name.  This gets horribly confused by admins adding items in either by the English name for a language or the name for itself.  If people are OK with this change, please change Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ#Why aren't the languages of the other Wikipedia language editions in alphabetical order? as appropriate.  Thanks, BT 13:52, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes needed 

message: The change was requested several times, here's the next one. That's how it looks today:
This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 1,362,174 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; the largest are listed below.
*More than 50,000 articles:Deutsch · Español · Esperanto · Français · Italiano · Nederlands · 日本語 · Norsk bokmål · Polski ·  Português · Русский · Slovenčina · Suomi · Svenska · 中文
Some numbers from today (bold entries would even qualify for a 250,000 articles category):
 459,456 articles in Deutsch
 148,947 articles in Español
  57,088 articles in Esperanto
 355,005 articles in Français
 192,296 articles in Italiano
 224,505 articles in Nederlands
 252,788 articles in 日本語
  73,613 articles in Norsk bokmål
 289,582 articles in Polski
 176,492 articles in Português
 103,889 articles in Русский
  56,247 articles in Slovenčina
  76,816 articles in Suomi
 181,479 articles in Svenska
  86,719 articles in 中文
As I've written in the discussion of the main page (from where I was forwarded to this discussion page), it's true that all these Wikipedias technichally are over 50,000 articles, but then again the current categories are lowering (POV-like) the work of all the editors of the other Wikipedias. A WP with 10,000 good articles in fact is better than a WP with 100,000 stubs, but that's not the point of my request here. It looks just _so_ wrong to display the ~1.5 million articles of the English WP next to "over 50,000" articles of the German, French, Polish and Japanese (just to mention the 4 biggest Non-English) WPs. --32X 15:27, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To give an extra motivation to edit the template: " Português" includes a space where it shouldn't be. ;) --32X 15:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be noted that the Spanish Wikipedia lists the sizes of other wikipedias by 100,000 and 10,000 - as do the Latin Wikipedia, Portugese Wikipedia, and others. --Tim4christ17 talk 13:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  100,000 reloaded 

message: The Danish Wikipedia just reached its 50,000th article. --pred 22:02, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: --81.161.184.111 05:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello!  I elevated the link several hours ago (in response to a message posted on the main page).  —David Levy 05:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danish Wikipedia > 50,000 

message: Telugu Wikpedia has 10,000+ articles. It is not in the list.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shyam Bihari (talk • contribs) 07:21, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added Telugu to the list.  —David Levy 07:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telugu Wikipedia > 10,000 

message: Hello, I'm currently working at the Wikipedia:Accessibility project, and one of the requirements of web accessibility is to specify the language of non-English words with the HTML lang attribute. This is also useful for let the browser to choose high-quality fonts for specific languages (see Template talk:lang#Justification for more details).
Almost every link to other Wikipedias is a non-English word, so they should be tagged using the  template. Please, find a ready made version in one of my subpages: User:Suruena/wikipedialang. Thanks! --surueña 14:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I brought this to the bottom to re-open discussion. Was there any objection to this or did it just not get done by anyone. The goal seems laudable as long as that's the right way to do it we should. As a somewhat related note, Suruena's version includes the English name of each language, which after reading all the related discussion from the main page talk archives I could find no support for. The main page is in English and an English speaker should be able to at least know what language is in the list so they can go look it up and read about it if they want. తెలుగు means nothing to anyone that doesn't know the script, but at least with Telugu they can go read Telugu. - Taxman Talk 14:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging non-English words 

message: Arabic Wikipedia has reached 20,000 Articles, please update here and in interwikis template. Thanks :) --Mido 08:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic Wikipedia > 20,000 

message: Call me a Grammar Nazi, but it's really bugging me since the page is protected.
"If your are moving a language..." --Wafulz 16:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Someone fix this typo

message: I really like the current selection of language links, both in the bottom section and the sidebar (+ the "complete list" link in sidebar). Aesthetic line-wrap, too. Good work, whoever all is responsible for the current incarnation of this much-discussed segment.. :) (copied from talk:main page)
I was wondering if the "Start a Wikipedia in another language" link was really necessary? It's already linked by the second section at Multilingual coordination, and the lead section at Complete list... Thanks :) --Quiddity 04:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Woohoo! Thanks Mets501. Better late than never ;) --Quiddity 19:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compliments, and a question 

message: Galician Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles, please update Wikipedia languages. Thanks --Prevert(talk) 15:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sandstein 06:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galician Wikipedia > 20,000 

message: The "middot" between Finnish (Suomi) and Telugu (తెలుగు) is actually a period:
*More than 20,000 articles: العربية ·  Bahasa Indonesia · Български · Català · Česky · Dansk · Esperanto · Eesti · Galego · עברית · Hrvatski · 한국어 · Lietuvių · Magyar · Norsk bokmål · Română · Slovenčina · Slovenščina · Српски · Suomi . తెలుగు · Türkçe · Українська
Please fix. — Äþelwulf <Small>See my contributions.</Small> 06:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  —David Levy 06:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix the middot, please 

message: A self-proclaimed coulrophobic insomniac changed the limit for the top tier from 250,000 to 300,000 just three days before the Dutch wikipedia passed the quarter million articles mark. Was that just a tease? — Afasmit 22:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm certain that this was an honest oversight.  I've reverted the change and moved the Dutch Wikipedia to the top level.  —David Levy 22:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I didn't really think that was intentional either. — Afasmit 05:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switch to 300,000+ 

message: Wikipedia on norsk (nynorsk) (nn:) has reached 20,000 articles, please update Wikipedia languages. --EIRIK\talk 00:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nynorsk Wikipedia > 20,000

message: The Cebuano wiki has hit the 20,000-article mark. Please update immediately. --Slgrandson (page - messages - contribs) 22:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cebuano Wikipedia > 20,000 

message: Finnish Wikipedia just passed 100k articles. MikkoM 17:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnish Wikipedia > 100,000 

message: Dear administrator, please add the following interwiki links:
 ca:Plantilla:Contingut Altres llengües
 es:Plantilla:Portada:Idiomas
 ia:Patrono:Altere linguas
Thank you in advance, Julian 05:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  —David Levy 05:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki links 

message: 
Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 100.000. Rettetast 19:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you Shanel. Rettetast 20:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian Wikipedia > 100,000 

message: Most of them are about French communes. Yet, the Wikipedia in Cebuano do have more than 25,000 articles. Thierry Caro 08:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Cebuano wikipedia is removed, reinstate it here please. The name Cebuano language is enough as Sinugboanong Binisaya is quite lengthy. 125.5.36.146 07:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cebuano > 25,000 =

message: The French Wikipedia will probably surpass 500,000 articles within the next couple of days. At that point, there will be two Wikipedias other than English (French and German) with over 500,000 articles. Should we then create a separate category for those two? My only concern is that it might be too many rows on this template. —Cuiviénen 19:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There already has been talk of eliminating a tier, so adding a fifth (particularly one for only two Wikipedias) seems to be out of the question.  —David Levy 19:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Going by the growth rate statistics here, Polish and Japanese should both reach the 500,000 mark in 6–8 months. By that time, Swedish and probably Russian will have joined 250,000+, and it will be getting a bit crowded. Perhaps we should review all the article counts at that time, and decide how to best partition them? Tualha (Talk) 22:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  >500,000 category? 

message:  Congratulations to the editors of the Thai Wikipedia on achieving 25,000 articles! Would someone please add them to the "25,000+" group? Copying this should work:
 ไทย ·
Thai should be added to Template:MainPageInterwikis too, of course. Thanks. (By the way, there seems to be something wrong with their statistics; 16 views seems a bit low...) Tualha (Talk) 15:29, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done for both templates. There are now links to the Thai Wikipedia on the Main Page. Congratulations to those editors. :) Nihiltres(t.l) 16:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thai has reached 25,000 

message: A suggestion for a new format for this part of the Main Page, consists mainly of putting the data in a table, and shading the cells in accordance to the number of articles, in a gradient. Between the 2 lines, we can observe how this section of the main page would look after making this change.
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Many other Wikipedias are available; the largest are listed below.
+250,000	
Deutsch · Español · Français · Italiano · Nederlands · 日本語 · Polski · Português
+75,000 	
Esperanto · Norsk (bokmål) · Русский · Suomi · Svenska · Türkçe · 中文
+50,000 	
Bahasa Indonesia · Català · Čeština · Dansk · עברית · Lietuvių . Lumbaart  · Magyar ·  Română · Slovenčina · Slovenščina · Українська
+25,000 	
العربية ·  Български · Eesti · Ελληνικά · Galego · Hrvatski · 한국어 · Српски / Srpski · Sinugboanong Binisaya · తెలుగు · ไทย · Volapük
Complete list · Multilingual coordination · Start a Wikipedia in another language
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♠TomasBat 21:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The  tag should be used to request uncontroversial/consensus-based edits.  You're welcome to continue proposing this change, but please note that we previously established consensus against the use of colored boxes in the three meta sections.  —David Levy 21:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh. Never knew about that consensus... Well, still, I suppose I´ll continue proposing this change despite consensus. Could you please provide me a link to the consensus so that I can take a look at it? ♠TomasBat 21:43, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This was covered as part of the main page redesign, so you can find the discussion within the talk archives.  The prevailing viewpoint was that we should visually distinguish between the featured content and the largely static meta content.  Consensus can change, of course.  —David Levy 21:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Or how about lighter colours? ♠TomasBat 03:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

text: That specific edit wasn't, but we established long ago that we would routinely change the tiers' numbers to adjust the Wikipedias'  distribution and control their quantity.  —David Levy 05:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

text: No offense, but I don't see this as accomplishing anything other than making the section less attractive and destroying the demarcation that we worked very hard to establish.  —David Levy 05:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I suppose I agree with you, the colors may do some harm to balance of the page. Plus, I had no idea that there was an entire project commited to improving the main page, so I suppose the results obtained by the members of the project must be the most conveniant for now. ♠TomasBat 16:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New format 

message: Done.  —David Levy 13:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lithuanian Wikipedia: 50 000 

message: Norsk (nynorsk) should be added to Template:MainPageInterwikis as well as this (Wikipedialang) template. Thanks. Hogne 20:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Gratulerer. Rettetast 22:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:nn:Hovudsida|Norsk (nynorsk)]] has reached 25,000 

message: Please add new.wikipedia to Template:MainPageInterwikis and Template:Wikipedialang.
Newar / Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia (new.wikipedia) passed 25 000 articles some weeks ago (it is already past 27 500 now). --Jorunn 00:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be glad to, but I need a native speaker to write the correct name of the Wikipedia here in the correct character set, so I can copy it into the article. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I obtained the name from m:List of Wikipedias.  —David Levy 19:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newar / Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia has over 25 000 articles 

message: Add 
*:kab:Talγa:Wikipedialang
*:lbe:Template:Wikipedialang
*:lo:Template:Wikipedialang
*:sg:Template:WikipediaLang
*:tg:Шаблон:Википедиа ба забонҳои дигар
*:ru:Шаблон:Wikipedialang
*:xal:Зура:Wikipedialang
*:yo:Template:WikipediaLang
--Александрит 12:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki 

message: The Persian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles (verify).  The text to be included follows: 
· ویکی‌پدیا
Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 03:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Persian Wikipedia already was added as "فارسی" (which appears to be correct).  —David Levy 04:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  +Persian 

message: It's just silly to lump the >500,000 article Wikipedias with the other >250,000 article ones. They should be on a separate tier. Tough if that makes it less "pretty" for people to look at. It's supposed to be functional, not a perfect geometrical arrangement of links. zoney  ♣ talk 12:05, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly the problem. Adding another tier makes it less functional Nil Einne 00:24, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to distinguish the >500,000 Wikipedias 

message: 
The Vietnamese Wikipedia has passed the 25,000-article milestone. Could an administrator here please list it?
 Tiếng Việt
Thanks.
 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 20:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Nihiltres(t.l) 20:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnamese Wikipedia 

message: Can somebody add simple:Main Page/Other languages to the collection of interwikis here? It's not a template, but is similarly transcluded on the page. Rigadoun  (talk) 04:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --ais523 11:34, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Simple English

message: Please move the Hungarian Wikipedia ("Magyar" currently in 50000+ row) among the Wikipedias with at least 75k articles. Thank you --Dami 20:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: (by someone else). Mr.Z-man 02:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hungarian Wikipedia at 75000 

message: 
Please change
 Norsk (nynorsk)
to
 Norsk (nynorsk)
— Kalan ? 13:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Nihiltres(t.l) 00:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclosed &lt;span&gt; in nn: 

message: Funny, why is the Hunagrian in the More than 20,000 articles row instead of the More than 40,000 articles? It has over 75,000 already, not from recent inflation. - 78.92.35.16 19:12, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, that was due to an error on my part.  I've corrected the listing.  —David Levy 08:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  20-40-80,000 

message: When pointing at the Ukrainian language (Українська) in the "above 40000" category, the text in English that appears is "Ukranian". It should be "Ukrainian", i.e., one letter "i" is missing. Please fix.
76.65.122.114 02:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  —David Levy 08:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fix a typo

message: Going with the 20-40-80 cutoffs, wouldn't it make more sense to have the highest as 160 000 for consistency? It would only change the position of one language too (and only 1 more in the near future).--Undc23 10:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  160 000 

message: I'd like to reopen the discussion on whether to exclude Wikipedias that are seen as "gaming" or "low quality" from the list -- I'm the main contributor at the Volapük Wikipedia. In the above discussion, I saw people argue that all current criteria -- number of articles, or even depth -- aren't realiable; so which one are you using to decide which Wikipedias to exclude? And how can you make them objective? Since you are listing Wikipedias on this template by number of articles, it seems misleading to use a different criterion than the one you mention to actually classify them -- you'd be making a false claim (there are other large Wikipedias that are not listed here). Even replacing "largest" with "best" doesn't solve the problem: it begs the question "what are the criteria"? Maybe we should talk a little about possible criteria? A suggestion: :m:List of Wikipedias by sample of articles. --Smeira 15:45, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reopening discussion: eliminate Wikipedias with depth<5? 

message: Could someone please rename Serbian Wikipedia link from Srpski to Српски because primary alphabet is Cyrillic. Or, you can leave it like on interwiki with Српски/Srpski with both alphabets. Thanks and best regards. --SasaStefanovic •  11:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've switched it to "Српски," and it probably will go back to "Српски / Srpski" when we need to make that line longer again.  —David Levy 11:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbian/Српски/Srpski 

message: Hi all, I am one of the users who has been using bots to create articles. I think that the anti-bot phenomenon that is observed at the moment is disproportionate. Here are some of my opinions on the matter
*Wikipedia with bot generated articles will have low depth even for the same amount of information as a bot makes a single edit to enter information which may take about 6 or 7 edits manually. 
*An article being edited more does not ensure that the quality of article is better. For example, I may be able to translate a featured article in english (edited 300 times) and keep it in Hindi wikipedia after translation, editing just once! Even if the grammatical errors or other such errors are corrected by other users, the article would not be edited more than 100 times. At 150 edits, the article would be far more encyclopedic than the one in english at 300 edits! 
*There are many users who create nonsense articles, far worse in quality than bots. We need to check those articles first.
There are a lot of pros/cons of using bots. However, my primary concern at the moment is not the discussion in this issue. Its about assessing the quality of a wikipedia. I think we are betting on the wrong horse by using these statistics at the primary level. I think that number of articles, depth etc are only secondary meausres. For an end user, it does not matter a dime whether the depth is a zillion or 0 (given the loopholes that it contain) and number of articles is not a perfect criteria as well. Here is what I think we need to do-
*About content: Create a consensus by wikipedians of all wikipedia about what articles must be contained in all wikipedia, similar to the List of articles in metawiki. For creating this, we might need to put on a notice in each wikipedia, we might need to vote and keep some articles in second list, third list etc. if issues are not resolved. But we need to have at least a rough framework of articles that must be present in a wiki to be encyclopedic
*About media:Upload media for the selected articles in commons so that every wikiversions can have media for the articles. Having a media in english with probable non-copyright status, which can not be used by other wikipediae, is useless and so is having a gallery of selected topic, in english wikipedia, without any of the media in commons.
*About quality assessing:Rank wikipedia depending upon the aggregate score of number of featured articles, good articles, long articles, medium sized aricles, short articles and stubs that are present from within the list. Whereas featured and good articles need to be decided by a community, the length of articles can be observed by anyone. Also, ranking should be such that featured and good articles should have maximum attention and long, medium, short, stub etc should have minimal focus lest people might start filling jibberish into those pages to have greater score.
*About updates:Review the list of articles within a certain span of time eg every 2 years (or during emergencies e.g.-new groundbreaking discoveries) by consensus.
*In disagreement:If a sizable number of users think that this system does not give proper emphasis on non-listed articles, we can divide the score into listed and statistical with total score being certain percentage of list, certain percentage of pure statistics and similar score from non-listed articles. eg total score=(80% of score from list)+(10% score from number of articles, depth etc combined)+(10% of score similar to listed from non-listed articles). However, if we are to create a serious encyclopedia, the percentage from the latter two should be minimal. 
Thank you--Eukesh (talk) 19:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with bots is that they're used to spam empty articles. This is a perfect example. If the first 200 pages on Special:Shortpages don't have proper sentences, the Wikipedia is bad and won't be listed. No need for complicated quality assessment. -- Prince Kassad (talk) 18:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Quality requirements contd

message: Please add th:แม่แบบ:วิกิพีเดียในภาษาอื่น link to the same template in Thai language, Thanks. -- Portalian 04:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki link to th 

message: The danish wikipedia is now on 80000 articles. --Fredelige (talk) 16:15, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The danish wikipedia 

message: Just passed 20,000 :) --Akigka  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.157.230.253 (talk) 16:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added.  —David Levy 05:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icelandic 

message: Hi,Telugu language wikipedia has crossed the 20000 article mark some time back. I am not seeing those wikipedias under the section. wikipedias with more than 20000 articles.  It is currently having 38000+ articles.  Will any user having permission to this add Telugu language Wikipedia add to the list.  __Mpradeep (talk) 04:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We no longer include Wikipedias with depth ratings lower than 5.  The Telugu Wikipedia has a depth rating of 2.  —David Levy 05:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telugu Wikipedia > 20000 

message: I recall that Volapük was removed some months back for having a low depth. It now appears to meet the depth >= 5 criterion and may need to be added again. Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the Volapük Wikipedia. -- Brhaspati\talk/contribs 14:54, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added.  —David Levy 12:38, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know whether this would need some more discussion since all articles in Volapük have at least 12 to 15 edits by one bot vo:Geban:SmeiraBot. Only due through this high amount of edits, the depth is >5.  The whole Volapük wikipedia consists more or less of automatically generated content. --René (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This I think exemplifies what I've been saying all along. The depth 5 rule was never going to work well and was always a bad idea. At least we're not (as far as I'm aware) cutting off good wikipedias which for some reason have a low depth but it appears we are still showing some wikipedias which consist mostly of bot edits Nil Einne (talk) 09:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree with the above logic, and I've removed the Volapük Wikipedia from the list.  —David Levy 21:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This explains then why Telugu was rejected because it had a depth of 2 and not because anyone looked at it and found it a POS? (I did look at it and it does appear to be mostly bot created stubs so I'm not disputing it should have been rejected simply saying that in our practice doesn't appear to coincide with Centrx's theory). The evaluate approach may seem okay for now, but what about when we get a wikipedia with a some bot created stubs but some good content? Nil Einne (talk) 19:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volapük (114,588 articles, depth 5) 

message: --Ilya K (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  uk 100.000+ 

message: Needs updating. Harris Morgan 14:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: --CapitalR (talk) 17:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin wikipedia > 20,000

message: Please add the  template so these links are displayed in the proper font:


-- Prince Kassad (talk) 14:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: --CapitalR (talk) 17:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese and Chinese 

message: Needs updating. Oldekop (talk) 06:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Note that I also added Hindi to this page, but not to Template:MainPageInterwikis, because it does not meet the minimum depth requirement for that list.--Danaman5 (talk) 20:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind about Hindi.  Looking at the talk page, it appears that the depth of 5 rule applies here too.  Maybe we should say that somewhere?--Danaman5 (talk) 20:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Estonian Wikipedia > 50 000 

message: The Czech Wikipedia has 100 012 articles as I am typing this. Please update the template. Thanks. Puchiko (Talk-email) 21:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  —David Levy 21:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech Wikipedia > 100000 

message: Hindi wikipedia has reached article count of 20k and depth of 5. Please add to the template. -- Longhairandabeard (talk) 20:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I've added the Breton Wikipedia as well, because it also recently met the criteria.--Danaman5 (talk) 05:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindi Wikipedia 

message: There are too many 20,000+ languages compared to other categories, and if you look at the List of Wikipedias page, you will see its only going to get worse. I suggest changing it to 25,000+. You could also change 300,000+ to 250,000+ to make the categories neatly logarithmic.--Undc23 (talk) 00:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a reasonable suggestion (and certainly is worthy of discussion), but keep in mind that the section was relocated to the bottom of the page specifically to allow more Wikipedias to be listed without forcing readers to scroll past them to see the remainder of the page.  In other words, the section's size is less of a concern than it was before.  —David Levy 01:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many 20,000+ languages 

message: Can someone add Macedonian Wikipedia on the list of languages? Many Macedonians visit the English Wiki but there are difficulties finding Macedonian Wiki when they are on the English one. Regards--MacedonianBoy (talk) 10:53, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry but unless it has more then 20k articles, it's not going to be added. We currently limit to wikis with more then 20k article to keep the list short. Readers can still find other languages by clicking the "Complete list" Nil Einne (talk) 18:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Macedonian

message: A user has reported, confirmed by a visit to :Sk:Hlavná stránka that the Slovakian wikipedia has reached 100k Nil Einne (talk) 18:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: —Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Slovakia

message: Hi, a few weeks ago the "Nederlands" Wikipedia link dissappeared from around the globe on the main www.wikipedia.org page, but considering it's size it should still be up there. Why has it been put between the smaller ones?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.94.51.76 (talk) 23:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The globe represents the most visited Wikipedias, see :meta:Top_Ten_Wikipedias -- Hogne (talk) 10:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nederlands Wikipedia on main page