I need to agree with Gautam. <div><br></div><div>Growth = More Participations<b> | </b>More User/Contributions on both English and Language Wikipedias<b> |</b> More language Wikipedias and Wikimedia Projects </div><div><br>
</div><div>( Not necessarily donations ;P )</div><div><br></div><div>- TC<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, sankarshan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com">foss.mailinglists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, CherianTinu Abraham<br>
<<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The Outlook : "Help: This Is A Stub"<br>
> <a href="http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?272101" target="_blank">http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?272101</a> ( web version)<br>
<br>
</div>[snip]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> It was inevitable, really. Wikimedia had little choice but to come to India<br>
> as growth in the West, or the ‘Global North’, tapers off.<br>
<br>
</div>[snip]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> with its “strong culture of free speech” and its numerous languages. “There<br>
> is a huge growth potential here...just look at the number of languages,”<br>
> says Datta.<br>
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</div>I had a small conversation with Gautam on Twitter (not the best medium<br>
for a discussion really !) -<br>
<<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/gkjohn/status/77251118433968128" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/#!/gkjohn/status/77251118433968128</a>> and so forth.<br>
<br>
What interests me is the scope of the word 'growth' - what does growth<br>
mean, when applied to Wikimedia ?<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
<<a href="http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog" target="_blank">http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog</a>><br>
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