Comments on: Never too late: Taking measures to promote Armenian Wikipedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/31/never-too-late-taking-measures-to-promote-armenian-wikipedia/ News from the Wikimedia Foundation and about the Wikimedia movement Fri, 24 May 2013 22:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Lusine Grigoryan http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/31/never-too-late-taking-measures-to-promote-armenian-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-17650 Lusine Grigoryan Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:07:09 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=6137#comment-17650 Anak, thanks for the comment and for sharing your concerns. It’s always useful to have comparisons with other language communities.

Actually, Armenians are a bit strict about the quality of the articles and the stubs: empty articles are usually deleted, that’s one of the reasons Armenian Wikipedia is not that big.

]]> By: anak malaysia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/31/never-too-late-taking-measures-to-promote-armenian-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-17533 anak malaysia Sun, 04 Sep 2011 05:29:28 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=6137#comment-17533 You know something, high schools all over the world should have “Wiki clubs” as part of their extracurricular provision to develop Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in their native tongue. Even though the Malay Wikipedia (which I work on) has 10 times as many articles as the Armenian one as I speak, yet most of them are stubs and a lot more is left to be desired.

Malaysians are currently grappling with a huge, zero-sum language conundrum, especially since a controversial policy to teach Science and Mathematics in English in all schools in the past decade which allegedly dealt a major blow to the efforts to keep the Malay language alive. Look up Malaysia’s Language Row on YouTube to know what I mean.

Don’t forget to convey my message to Jimmy Wales.

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