Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination

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Wiki encyclopedias have been started in other languages:

Spanish (Espanol) -- Chinese -- Catalan (Catalana) -- Esperanto -- French (Francais) -- German (Deutsch) --- Hebrew -- Italian (Italiano) -- Japanese (Nihongo) -- Portuguese (Portugues) -- Spanish (Espanol) -- Russian (Russkiy)

A certain amount of "critical mass" is necessary in order for a wiki to "take off". Without 5-10 people eagerly writing and arguing and playing with each other, it wouldn't be as much fun. So we encourage anyone who wants to build a wiki in their own language to also go out and announce/recruit for it.  :-)

Here are some "international Wikipedia" policy questions. To a certain extent, these questions will resolve themselves, though.

  • How are the various Wikipedias going to be coordinated, if at all? Will we have several quite different articles in different languages? Will English be a lingua franca? See /Coordination to discuss.
  • What are some suggestions about what can be put on new language Wikipedia home pages? See /Homepages to discuss.
  • What are some suggestions about how to use "international Wikipedias" for purposes of Nupedia article translation projects? See /Nupedia Translation to discuss.
  • Anything else?

Please suggest new language Wikipedias below!

For my own personal taste I would very much like a wikipedia in swedish. The best name for it would be svensk.wikipedia.com with the canonical sv.wikipedia.com as a complement. LinusTolke

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