<div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia ( <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org">ml.wikipedia.org</a>) crossed 20,000 articles 2 days back. </div>
<div>Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a 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" title="ഉപയോക്താവ്:Abhishek Jacob" class="mw-userlink" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Abhishek Jacob</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> 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 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4 b'crats.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics">http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</a> </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">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="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">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/">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><div><br></div><div>Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind this achievement. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian </div>