<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 17:05, Gautam John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org" target="_blank">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You know, this is pretty awesome. It's an idea I hadn't even thought<br>
of till I read it here.<br></blockquote><div>Nothing new except "Faces of Tamil Wikipedia". IIRC Even India programs has this somewhere in their agenda[1] (Hisham, Hi !). </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in contributions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Infact the idea of featuring people in lots was to find some pattern, but we could find any spikes. The hit ratio of Create First article page linked on Anon notices managed to get 100-150 clicks a day on average.But we directly couldnt link to contributions since it involved manual effort / estimate. [2]. An extension which allows tracking campaigns like this may be useful. There is Akshay's GSoC work which kind of tracks sign-ups through referral campaigns, but we need something more inside Wikipedia which tracks these campaigns.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Digital_Outreach" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Digital_Outreach</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="http://stats.grok.se/ta/201108/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%3A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88" target="_blank">http://stats.grok.se/ta/201108/விக்கிப்பீடியா:முதல்_கட்டுரை</a></div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a href="http://srik.me" target="_blank">http://srik.me</a><br>