Shiju,<br><br>Thanks for adding the template. I have notified the village pump about this. <br><br>Ravi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Shiju Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Added the template in Tamil Wiki and created one pretty url for the article malayalam. For example see, <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam" target="_blank">http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam</a><br>
<br>Minor tweaking of template is required. We will help to fix it.<br><font color="#888888">
<br>Shiju</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Ravishankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Shiju. Should see if we can make sense from the malayalam page. Else, an english tutorial will be appreciated :)<br><br>Interestingly, the contributor profile for Ta Wiki is quite similar to ml wiki<div>
<br><br><a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Ejunaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0</a><br>
<br></div>Ravi<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Shiju Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available?<br></blockquote><br><br></div><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl" target="_blank">http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl</a><br>
<br>Please see the source code of that template.<div><div></div><div><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Shiju, <br><br>Good to know. I agree that until each wiki should become self-reliant without the need to refer en wiki for everything. <br>
<br>Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available?<br><br>Thanks, <br><br>Ravi<div><div></div><div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Could the count be explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits<br>
</div></blockquote><br></div>Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped projecting the depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like <b>edits/article</b>, <b>bytes per article</b>, <b>number of active users</b>, and so on.<br>
<ul><li>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. </li><li>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.<br>
</li><li>Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of active and dedicated users. We have at least <b>40 users</b> with number of edita more than 1000.
<a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Ejunaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0</a> Atleast 10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000.<br>
</li></ul>All these have contributed depth of the wiki.<br><br> 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 <b>our readers will not run to English wikipedia</b> to get the fundamental information about a topic. <br><br>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 <b>who only reads ml wikipedia</b>. <b>After all if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.</b><br>
<br>We give top priority to the usability part of the wiki. Because of that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia <b>that are not available in any other language wikipedia</b>. An example is <b>pretty url </b>itself.<br>
<br>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. <br><br>There are more things. I will write about that some time later. <br>
<br>As in Tamil Wikipedia, <b>we also have problem in getting local Wikipedians to edit the wiki</b>. I will write about that later.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>Shiju</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ravishankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ramesh,<br><br>That's quite a good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also quite elaborate. well done. <br>
<br>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??<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Ravi<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rameshng@gmail.com" target="_blank">rameshng@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ravi<br>
An apprx figures<br>
<br>
# The total attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which<br>
includes newcomers around 60%<br>
# Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the<br>
attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians<br>
<br>
regards<br>
Rameshng<br>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> The number of registrants found at <a href="http://bit.ly/c9voKu" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/c9voKu</a> is interesting.<br>
><br>
> Would like to know what percentage of them are regular contributors in<br>
> ml.wiki projects.<br>
><br>
> One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active contributors are<br>
> present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities.<br>
><br>
> How is the situation for other Indic Wikis?<br>
><br>
> It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like<br>
> <a href="http://bit.ly/a3AaCl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/a3AaCl</a> . Especially, any lesson to learn on outreach and<br>
> increasing contributor activity.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Ravi<br>
><br>
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