&gt; But we may also have to take care of references  <br><br>Absolutely, Rahim. That is relatively easy. To start with, after the stub of an article, we can immediately include the references of the English article. The doctor (or other expert) simply speaks in Telugu (with a mix of English words -- what s/he would do with a Telugu-speaking patient).<br>
<br>Many  related questions arise. What about changes, edits, updates?<br><br>I&#39;m just saying that reliable information becomes available almost immediately. That&#39;s the first aim. It seems like a worthwhile goal.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 15:58, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nani1only@gmail.com">nani1only@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Giri RAO <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:agiridhar.rao@gmail.com" target="_blank">agiridhar.rao@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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Many thanks, Hisham! The quick response is much appreciated.<br><br>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&#39; literacy in Telgu  would  not be a barrier then. Thus,  high-quality  information on &quot;Hypertension&quot;, for example, can become available as an audio file. A few months later, the text too appears.<br>



<br>What does the group think?<br></blockquote></div><div>Its really a good idea. But we may also have to take care of references  <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 13:22, Hisham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hisham@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">hisham@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Giri<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br>



</div><div>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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force</a></div>



<div><br></div><div>The actual list of the 80 articles is at <a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Eenwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&amp;projecta=Medicine&amp;importance=Top-Class" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&amp;projecta=Medicine&amp;importance=Top-Class</a></div>



<div><br></div><div>ISB went very well, thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div><span><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Giri RAO wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Hisham<br><br>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&#39;t found the numbers in Laurent and Vickers&#39; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705249/?tool=pmcentrez" target="_blank"><i>JAMIA</i> article</a>.) I wanted to share the numbers with some doctor-friends, to see if they can use the stats to mobilize their students.<br>




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