Talk:Dutch Wikipedia

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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)
 :) 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?

[edit] Italian

The Italian Wikipedia have already overtook the Dutch one. We need to put that in the article.

[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no move. JPG-GR (talk) 00:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Dutch Wikipedia → Dutch language Wikipedia — nog only for the Netherlands but also for Suriname and Flanders. Andries (talk) 18:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
  • Oppose. All the Wikipedias are by language (en.wp is for English language, not England). Would not follow pattern seen at Category:Wikipedias by language. Zuiver jo (talk) 20:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose: it's more than clear enough that by the adjective Dutch the language is meant, not the country. --Roofbird (talk) 16:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Agree with Zuiver jo and Roofbird. China Crisis (talk) 06:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose. No evidence that there's any ambiguity or other problem with the current name, or that the proposed new name has any significant usage. As others have said, the context makes it clear that Dutch (or English) language is what is meant. Andrewa (talk) 14:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

Any additional comments: Andries (talk) 18:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was