On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Giri RAO <agiridhar.rao(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Many thanks, Hisham! The quick response is much
appreciated.
A friend made an interesting suggestion. Since it is (increasingly)
difficult to find writing skills in the Indic languages, why not get people
to produce audio files which are made available on the Indic Wikipedias?
These can then be transcribed at leisure. A doctor from an English-medium
background may hesitate to write things down in Telugu, but may not have a
problem _talking_ about an issue. Also, the readers' literacy in Telgu
would not be a barrier then. Thus, high-quality information on
"Hypertension", for example, can become available as an audio file. A few
months later, the text too appears.
What does the group think?
Its really a good idea. But we may also have to take care of references
Regards
Giri
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 13:22, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Giri
The top 300 articles are viewed more than 1 lakh times every month.
...If I am not mistaken, EACH article is viewed at least 1 lakh times a
month.
The link that you will find useful to the project that seeks to have the
top 70-80 medical articles in Indic (and other languages) is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…
The actual list of the 80 articles is at
http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&…
ISB went very well, thank you!
best
*hisham*
On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Giri RAO wrote:
Dear Hisham
The other evening you rapidly gave us some statistics on some 85
medicine-related articles attracting several million hits every month.
Could you repeat those numbers, please? And point me to the source?
(Haven't found the numbers in Laurent and Vickers' *JAMIA*
article<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705249/?tool=pmcent…ez>.)
I wanted to share the numbers with some doctor-friends, to see if they can
use the stats to mobilize their students.
Hope the ISB session went well!
Cheers
Giri
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