Hi,
I think we should take whatever has been written in the two mails below
positively.
We don't need to pinpoint bad things about other language wikipedias at this
stage while this group is just in formation stage.
1> Indian language Wikipedias don't have enough quality articles.
2> We need more contributors to add more quality articles.
3> To attract people to Wikipedias we need a valuable information to be
already present in them.
Now how do we do this?
If you have some ideas that might work in Indian scenario please share
them, especially if you have seen them working on your Wikipedia.
e.g Shiju Alex can tell us how ml wikipedia has been able to achieve so
many registered users?
Regards,
kolhapuri
On Jan 16, 2008 9:52 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia. Since you have mentioned about Malyalam
wikipedia I would like to discuss some thing about the article count race
(Indian language wikipedias in particular).
- Creating thosands of short pages like this
http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5…
- Or orphaned pages like this
http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5…
- Or copying content from english wikipedia like this
http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF
for the sake of increasing the number of articles in a wiki will not
increase the quality of a wikipedia or will not do any thing good for the
language also.
If we would have adopted one of the above techiques we would have been
well ahead in the number of articles, since malayalam wikipedia has the
maximum number of registered users among all the indian language wikipedias
(More than *4400*).
Please go through the various quality parameters listed in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias, for an understanding
about various indian langauage wikipedias.
Regards
Shiju Alex
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex
On 1/15/08, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias
like Kannada Language
wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow given the
fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective states is quite OK
and they are immensely contributing to India centric articles on English
wikipedia in big way.
Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi wikipedias are
lagging behind like nothing.
Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old
languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali
Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count
but statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve menimum
3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps getting
adequate content and how do we do that?
Thanks and Regards
Mahitgar
------------------------------
Now you can chat without downloading messenger. Click
here<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_webmessenger_5/*http://in.messenger.…
know how.
_______________________________________________
Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
_______________________________________________
Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l