Talk:Dutch Wikipedia
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This article was nominated for deletion on February 18, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep. |
- "This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
- You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations."
Interesting template, since the source is Wikipedia itself. How about:
- "This Wikipedia is full of template-maniacs, who are not interested
- in the contents at all, but just enjoy playing around and making this
- a bad place for others. You can help Wikipedia by giving these people
- a good playground, far away from here."?
- Quistnix 16:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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- :) Waerth 18:48, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] "Wikipedia schrijfwedstrijd"
Does somebody knows something about "wikipdia schrijfwedstrijd" (wikipedia writing-contest)? As far as I know the Dutch wikipedia was even the first to start it. 213.118.244.33 10:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] first article
Is there a source for the first edit? The first one I find nowadays is 'Definitie' on august 7th 2001 Henna 11:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title is ambiguous
The current title "Dutch Wikipedia" falsely suggests that it the Wikipedia for the Netherlands only. I think the title should be Dutch language Wikipedia. Andries 11:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Success of Dutch-language Wikipedia
In terms of population, the Dutch-language Wikipedia is proportionally larger than the German Wikipedia. Maintaining the same ratio, the German Wiki would have 1.3 million articles, close to the English-language Wiki. Also the success of the Dutch-language Wikipedia seems to have inspired the regional languages of the Benelux region: Luxembourgian, West Frisian, Limburgian, Dutch Low Saxon, West Flemish and Zealandish, plus the related Low Saxon language in Germany and the geographically close Ripuarian. Not to mention French-related Walloon in Belgium.
By contrast, despite the recognized quality of the German Wikipedia (N° 2 in absolute terms), High German regional languages are represented only by Alemannic, with less articles than Limburgian, and Bavarian, with less articles than West Fleming.
How can this difference between the Low and High German areas be explained?
