Hoi,<br>When you say "there are technical barriers", what technical barriers? We have for instance been working hard on getting a better localisation framework. <a href="http://translatewiki.net">BetaWiki </a>is clearly superior. It now shows pointers to what a message is used for. It allows for the use of "gettext" files. I am really happy to see that for several languages from the Indian subcontinent this has been taken up. Consequently the use of Commons has been improved because the user interface of these languages is improving. I have noticed Bengali, Gujarati among, I have failed to notice Hindi for instance.
<br><br>What other technical barriers are there that we can help with? I have read in mailing lists that not enough complaints are received from Asia and consequently developers are not aware about issues. In one instance there was an issue with performance and once this was noticed, the performance in Asia is said to have increased substantially as a result.
<br><br>Thanks,<br> GerardM<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 7:50 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <<a href="mailto:mail@hpnadig.net">mail@hpnadig.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 20:28 +0530, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia<br>wrote:<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias like Kannada Language<br>> wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow
<br>> given the fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective<br>> states is quite OK and they are immensely contributing to India<br>> centric articles on English wikipedia in big way.<br>><br>> Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi wikipedias are
<br>> lagging behind like nothing.<br>><br>> Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old<br>> languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali<br>><br>> Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count but
<br>> statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve menimum<br>> 3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps<br>> getting adequate content and how do we do that?<br>><br><br>
</div>I don't know what to make out of your first statement, really. It would<br>be stupid to say what you've said.<br><br>It might sound rude, but it would be nice if you do some homework before<br>writing vaguely like this.
<br><br>None of the wikis you have mentioned are "slow". They have much better<br>ratio of quality content to stubs which is what the projects need in<br>order to grow. An infinite array of stubs isn't going to motivate new
<br>visitors to become editors. Instead, it might just do the opposite.<br><br>Literacy levels or IT exposure has nothing significant to do with how<br>respective language Wikipedias are faring.<br><br>The challenge of motivating more visitors to become editors has to be
<br>addressed with a much different approach. There are technical barriers.<br>There are differences in culture that affect the way the projects are<br>received by the native speakers of each language. But I'd rather not
<br>discuss that in a thread that started with some poorly formed<br>observation.<br><font color="#888888"><br> - h.p.<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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