Showing posts with label wiki-approval. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wiki-approval. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Geographical distribution of new wikis

I created maps which show the geographical distribution of languages in which an edition of any Wikimedia project was created.
The maps are per year, starting from 2008 until the last year (currently 2010).




It clearly shows that most languages are from Europa, and some from Asia. We definitely need to have more wikis in languages from Africa, South America, ...

See here for a list of the respective wikis.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

I received an invitation

Constantly people are asking why their project has to wait so long for approval.

Some people ask, ask, and ask again on each page they can find.

Other people make it original :-)

Sunday, April 5, 2009

New language editions of Wikimedia projects

I love languages. I'm active at Wikimedia projects.
The combination is simple: I help with the process to set up new language editions of Wikimedia projects. In the past, when I didn't even know of Wikipedia, you just had to ask a developer and your wiki was created. Now it takes a very long time, and you're even very lucky if your wiki is created. But that's somehow logical: big languages already have Wikipedias, and now it's time for smaller languages with fewer potential contributors.
So now the process is complicated, and information is on both Meta and Incubator.
I wanted to make one simple "tutorial" that you have to follow and that explains as much as possible, as simple as possible. I created it at the Toolserver.
Meanwhile the first request has been submitted using my tool, and I have the feeling it really helps (though I can't know what people think :p)