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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>Congratulations to all the editors in Malayalam Wikipedia for there exceptional efforts to reach this number. We would like to some many more milestones in future from you....</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"> We know how it is difficult to increase the number in Indic language .... :)</DIV>
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<DIV>With Regards,<BR><BR>Mandar V. Kulkarni</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi all,</DIV>
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<DIV>I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors to announce it here .. with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their behalf. :)</DIV>
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<DIV>I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia ( <A href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>ml.wikipedia.org</A>) crossed 20,000 articles 2 days back. </DIV>
<DIV>Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span><A style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px; TEXT-DECORATION: none" class=yiv57565765mw-userlink title="ഉപയോക്താവ്:Abhishek Jacob" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Abhishek_Jacob" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span color=#000000>Abhishek Jacob</FONT></A><FONT class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span face=sans-serif><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span> is the 20,000 th article to be created. The 15,000th article was born almost a year back in Nov 2010. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span>Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4 b'crats.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span><A href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</A> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span face=sans-serif><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span>There was a coordinated effort fby the Malayalam Wikipedians to organically reach the 20,000 article milestone before Onam and the target was achieved 4 days ahead of "Thiruvonam" </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span face=sans-serif><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px" class=yiv57565765Apple-style-span>Apart from the discussion pages, the ML Wikipedians used social media networking sites like Facebook groups ( </SPAN></FONT><A href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/</A> ) and twitter extensively to coordinate and encourage this campaign.</DIV>
<DIV>This will be also an interesting case study of Wikipedia discussions happening off-wiki and the use of networking sites to promote Wikipedia.</DIV>
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<DIV>Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind this achievement. </DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Tinu Cherian </DIV></DIV>
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