Thanks Shiju. Should see if we can make sense from the
malayalam page.
Else, an english tutorial will be appreciated :)
Interestingly, the contributor profile for Ta Wiki is quite similar to ml
wiki
Ravi
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available?
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl
Please see the source code of that template.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> Hi Shiju,
> Good to know. I agree that until each
wiki should become self-reliant
> without the need to refer en wiki for everything.
> Pretty URL is cool. Is the script
available?
> Thanks,
> Ravi
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex
<shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>> Could the count be explained? May
be because of good participation in
>>> talk pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits
>>
>
>> Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped
projecting the
>> depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like *
>> edits/article*, *bytes per article*, *number of active users*, and so
>> on.
>
>> - As you have mentioned
above, depth shows the overall
>> collaboration. Edits in articles, talkpages, portal pages, templates,
>> images, and so on helped in increasing the article count.
>> - We are away from increasing the article count by creating
>> one-liners. Remove all junk one-liners and big articles with english only
>> content from your wiki. Depth will surely increase.
>> - Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of
>> active and dedicated users. We have at least *40 users* with number
>> of edita more than 1000.
>>
http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml…
10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000.
>
>> All these have contributed
depth of the wiki.
>
>> We are not allowing anyone to
create one-liners just for the sake of
>> increasing the article count. At least fundmental information is required in
>> each and every article that is created in Malayalam Wikipedia. Because of
>> that *our readers will not run to English wikipedia* to get the
>> fundamental information about a topic.
>
>> We are trying to attract
readers to wiki. The CD project/book
>> project/wikiacademies/wiki meetups are all part of the public outreach
>> programs. We have many users *who only reads ml wikipedia*. *After all
>> if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.*
>
>> We give top priority to the
usability part of the wiki. Because of
>> that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia *that are not
>> available in any other language wikipedia*. An example is *pretty url *
>> itself.
>
>> We are trying to reach the
other language wikipedians to get to know
>> about their best practices. We feel no shy in copying their best practices.
>
>> There are more things. I will
write about that some time later.
>
>> As in Tamil Wikipedia, *we
also have problem in getting local
>> Wikipedians to edit the wiki*. I will write about that later.
>
>
>> Shiju
>
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM,
Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
>>> Ramesh,
>>
>>> That's quite a
good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also
>>> quite elaborate. well done.
>>
>>> I am also curious
about the depth of Malayalam Wiki. Could the count be
>>> explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages, collaborative
>>> articles, regular copy edits??
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Ravi
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G
<rameshng(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>>
>>>> Ravi
>>>> An apprx figures
>>>
>>>> # The total
attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which
>>>> includes newcomers around 60%
>>>> # Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the
>>>> attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians
>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Rameshng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat,
Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> > The
number of registrants found at
http://bit.ly/c9voKu is
>>>> interesting.
>>>>
>>>> >
Would like to know what percentage of them are regular contributors
>>>> in
>>>> > ml.wiki projects.
>>>>
>>>> > One
challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active
>>>> contributors are
>>>> > present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities.
>>>>
>>>> > How
is the situation for other Indic Wikis?
>>>>
>>>> > It
will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like
>>>> >
http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . Especially, any lesson to learn on outreach
>>>> and
>>>> > increasing contributor activity.
>>>>
>>>> >
Regards,
>>>>
>>>> >
Ravi
>>>>
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