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Volapuk more popular than Esperanto??

by lagwagon555, November 13, 2007

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lagwagon555 (User's profile) November 13, 2007, 9:16:46 PM

According to Wikipedia!

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

Volapuk has made it into the list of 100,000+ articles, compared to Esperanto's 90,000... last time I looked it was like like 5,000 articles. Some translation bot maybe?

Although look at article depth, Volapuk has 2, which is like a sentence a page. Still, its not doing Esperanto any favours. Time to me to browse through thousands of Volapuk articles I dont understand, deleting the articles with only a few words...

Matthieu (User's profile) November 13, 2007, 9:34:19 PM

This was already asked here.

The Volapük Wikipedia has so much articles because, although very few people speak it, a bot is creating thousands of geographical stubs. Click the link “Random page” to see.

BasCostBudde (User's profile) November 13, 2007, 9:46:55 PM

Don't bother Volapuk, translate articles you like into Esperanto.

Negative attention still is attention.

lagwagon555 (User's profile) November 13, 2007, 10:19:00 PM

To be honest it was a joke, I wasn't really going to delete volapuk articles. I have spare time, but I dont have THAT much spare time.

It makes me wonder as well... although all Esperanto wikipedia articles look very well done, and in depth, but I wonder if any were created by bots?

mnlg (User's profile) November 13, 2007, 11:12:00 PM

lagwagon555:It makes me wonder as well... although all Esperanto wikipedia articles look very well done, and in depth, but I wonder if any were created by bots?
Well, I initiated the Wikipedia article about Marco Polo in Esperanto (in 2004 or 2005, I can't remember), and that article at some point attained star status (much to the merit of following contributors, I am fairly sure).

So, perhaps 89,999+ were created by bots, but at least one wasn't ridulo.gif

ehanson (User's profile) November 16, 2007, 10:50:31 PM

I too have penned a few articles, in fact I'm working on one right now.

cirko (User's profile) November 24, 2007, 8:17:19 PM

"Today there are an estimated 20-30 Volapük speakers in the world. Volapük was largely displaced in the late 19th century by the much simpler and more easily-learned Esperanto."

20-30 speakers? there are more Esperanto speakers on this website alone. I don't think we have anything to worry about haha.

lagwagon555 (User's profile) November 25, 2007, 10:33:40 AM

Thats true, although my worry was that people would think there was some sort of rivalry between the languages, if there were similar amount of supporters (as one might think, just glancing over wikipedia article numbers). Although I'm sure if they do three seconds of research they should find out the truth.

Joop (User's profile) December 2, 2007, 11:38:33 PM

100,000 articles all for 30 some people? Wow.

Stefano B (User's profile) December 6, 2007, 9:23:09 PM

I think the only real rivals Esperanto has are English and maybe Interlingua. Personally I don't like Interlingua because it's so biased toward European languages, especially Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Esperanto is biased toward European languages, too, but not as much.

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