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).

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.

On 1/15/08, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar@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

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