Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines. But
there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
typing in
) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects (for
Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
+855 975 529 803
Skype: anirudhsbh
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Ravi.
On 12/20/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree
> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
> Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable
readership
> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot
more that can be done to
support
> this and also to help build Indic language
communities. I also hear
> Theo's
> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
measured.
>
> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
resolved
-
> to explore this. The first step would be
finalise what the objectives
are
> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the
existence of Indic language
> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?) The next stage
> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
> out
> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
If
you see
value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see
what we can do about it. (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
determining what might work best?)
What say?
hisham
+1.
Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not
be neglected !
Ravi
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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