Hi,<div> Yesterday I was asked some tricky questions by a journo. They were something like this :</div><div><br></div><div><i>" Does the surge of number of Indian language Wikipedia articles has anything to do with paid translations by Google ?"</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"Why should regular Wikipedians be motivated to contribute when Google pays to do the same ?"</i></div><div><br></div><div>I didn't answer them due to the sensitivity of the issue. But I am now curious on a statistical point of view.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not referring to the philosophical question on whether paid editing is good or bad. </div><div><br></div><div>But is there a way to find how many of the articles created in last year were created by normal editors/bots and Google translators in each of the Indian language Wikipedias? Somebody told me , the translators are supposed to leave the translate URLs of Google in the edit summaries to get paid?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Which are the languages on which Google translations are happening ? I know it happens on Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu, at least. Any other ? I know it is banned to Bengali & Malayalam. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian</div>