User:Node ue/Moldovan Wikipedia

Де ла Википедия ын лимба молдовеняскэ

Some people want to know why we should keep the Moldovan Wikipedia.

They think a solution whereby it is somehow replaced by the Romanian Wikipedia is adequate.

We may copy many (if not most) of our articles from ro.wp, although attribution is rarely given (this is a problem that should be fixed, Epure created a template for it and now we have to find which articles it needs to be added to). But we excersise discretion and do not copy the stubs and poor-quality articles that ro.wp keeps without repairing, or if we do, we make an effort to organise them and repair them a bit.

We do have perhaps a dozen original quality articles and perhaps 50 more original bare-bones stubs.

In addition to the many reasons already enumerated, here are some based on the statistics from these respective Wikis:

  • Number of Articles: mo - 396; ro - 42211. We are still growing, you cannot hold it against us that we got a later start than ro.wp, and we still haven't got the ball rolling well.
  • % of articles over 200 characters (excluding interwikis): mo - 61%; ro - 56%. We don't tolerate stubs as much. We do have a slight overabundance of stubs that should probably be liquidated or expanded, but it is not as bad as the stub-filled wasteland at ro.wp -- you have to look hard to find the good pages.
  • Average bytes per article: mo - 2395; ro - 1755. The average article on the Romanian Wikipedia is much shorter than the average article here, in fact it is only approximately 3/4 the size. We preserve a better quality base, while the Romanian Wikipedia tolerates trash.
  • External links. While the Moldovan Wikipedia has about 5 external links for every 10 articles, the Romanian Wikipedia has only 4. This shows that we give more external references.

In short, we adhere to a higher standard of quality. We set our bar higher. Perhaps rather than harassing us, the Romanian Wikipedians' time would be better spent making their own Wikipedia better?