[Wikimediaindia-l] Lower user and edit count of some Indian wikis

[Shiju Alex]

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%87%E0%A4%B7:Shortpages&limit=1000&offset=0
   - Or orphaned pages like this
   http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Lonelypages&limit=1000&offset=0
   - 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 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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>   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.
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> Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi  wikipedias are
> lagging behind like nothing.
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> Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old
> languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali
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> 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?
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> Thanks and Regards
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> Mahitgar
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