Hello All<br><br>I have compiled the statistical information of the Indian language Wikipedias for the month of <b>2010 February</b>. The report is available at  <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&amp;hl=en">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&amp;hl=en</a><br>
<br>The data for this report is taken from the statistical analysis of all the WikiMedia wikis prepared and maintained by Erik Zachte (Website: <a href="http://infodisiac.com/">http://infodisiac.com/</a>). The statistics is available at <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm">http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm</a>. <br>
<br>The data for this report is collected on the last day of the month. That is, the statistical data for the month of 2010 January is collected at 2010 January 31 23:59 PM GMT. <br>The information of the following Indian language wikipedias is included in this report.<br>
<ul><li>Assamese (<a href="http://as.wikipedia.org">http://as.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Bengali (<a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org">http://bn.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Bhojpuri (<a href="http://bh.wikipedia.org">http://bh.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Bishnupriya Manipuri (<a href="http://bpy.wikipedia.org">http://bpy.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Burmese (<a href="http://my.wikipedia.org">http://my.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Gujarathi (<a href="http://gu.wikipedia.org">http://gu.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Hindi (<a href="http://hi.wikipedia.org">http://hi.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Kannada (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org">http://kn.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Kashmiri (<a href="http://ks.wikipedia.org">http://ks.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Malayalam (<a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org">http://ml.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Marathi (<a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org">http://mr.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Nepali (<a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org">http://ne.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Nepal Bhasha/Newari (<a href="http://new.wikipedia.org">http://new.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Odia (Oriya) (<a href="http://or.wikipedia.org">http://or.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Pali (<a href="http://pi.wikipedia.org">http://pi.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Punjabi (<a href="http://pa.wikipedia.org">http://pa.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Sanskrit (<a href="http://sa.wikipedia.org">http://sa.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Sindhi (<a href="http://sd.wikipedia.org">http://sd.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Sinhala (<a href="http://si.wikipedia.org">http://si.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Tamil (<a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org">http://ta.wikipedia.org</a>)</li><li>Telugu (<a href="http://te.wikipedia.org">http://te.wikipedia.org</a>)</li>
<li>Urdu (<a href="http://ur.wikipedia.org">http://ur.wikipedia.org</a>)</li></ul><br>I know that some of the above languages are not spoken in present day India. Even though my focus is on Indian language wikipedias, I have included all the languages from Indian Sub continent. One of the main reason is that all the above languages belong to the same language family (either Aryan or Dravidian). <br>
<br><br>I have divided the report into two different sections.<br><br>1. Statistical report of Wikipedias<br>2. Localization status of Mediawiki software<br><br><br>Following are the different topics covered under each section.<br>
<br><font size="4">Wikipedia Statistics</font><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>Article statistics</b><br></div><ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>Number of Articles</li><li>Number of Edits</li><li>Break up of edits </li>
<li>Edits per article</li><li>Average size of an article (bytes)</li><li>Database size (in Mega Bytes)</li><li>Percentage of articles with size greater than 500 bytes</li><li>Percentage of articles with size greater than 2000 bytes (2 kilobytes)</li>
</ul><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>User Statistics</b></div><ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>Number of active wikipedians</li><li>Page views per month (All figures in Lakhs/month)</li><li>MediaWiki Localization Statistics</li>
</ul><font size="4">Media Wiki Localization status (percentage)</font><br><br><br>This month onwards I am dividing the languages into 3 groups based 
on the number of articles. Following are the groups and the languages 
that fall under each group.<br>
<br>
<font size="4">Group 1 (More than 10,000 articles)</font><br>
<ul><li>Nepal Bhasha/Newari</li><li>Hindi</li><li>Telugu</li><li>Marathi</li><li>Bishnupriya Manipuri</li><li>Tamil</li><li>Bengali</li><li>Gujarathi</li><li>Urdu</li><li>Malayalam</li></ul>
<font size="4">Group 2 (More than 1,000 articles)</font><br>
<ul><li>Kannada</li><li>Sanskrit</li><li>Nepali</li><li>Burmese</li><li>Sinhala</li><li>Pali</li><li>Bhojpuri</li><li>Punjabi</li></ul>
<font size="4">Group 3 (Less than 1,000 articles)</font><br>
<ul><li>Odia (Oriya)</li><li>Kashmiri</li><li>Sindhi</li><li>Assamese</li></ul>
<br>See the PDF at  <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&amp;hl=en">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&amp;hl=en</a> for details. You can make your own analysis and conclusions after going through each topic in the PDF. I may publish my analysis in my blog after some time.  Last month&#39;s analysis is available here <a href="http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/02/indian-language-wikipedias-statistics.html">http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/02/indian-language-wikipedias-statistics.html</a><br>
<br><br>The question for this month is :<br><br>Question for 2010 February: <b>Which is the first Indian language Wikipedia that has crossed 10,000 articles milestone?</b><br><br>Support your answer with sufficient references. <br>
<br>Please reply to this mail so that we will have fruitful discussion regrading this topic. <br><br>I hope this initiative will improve the interaction between different 
Indian Language Wikipedias and wikipedians. We (Malayalam Wikipedians - <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/">http://ml.wikipedia.org</a>) are 
maintaining a similar comparison study of the major Indian Language 
wikipedias for the past two years. This study has helped us to 
understand the status of Malayalam Wikipedia as compared to other Indian
 Language Wikipedias. I hope this report will help other Indian language
 wikipedias also.<br><br>Let me know in case there are any issues. <br><br><br>Regards<br><br>Shiju Alex <br><br><br>