On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, 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