On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br><br>Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.<br><br>See the screenshot at: <a href="http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png" target="_blank">http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png</a><br>
<br>A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple traffic to Indic Wiki projects. <br><br>We have been requesting this feature for years. <br><br>Curious when it will be implemented.<br><br>
Ravi<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><div>I tried that. twice.</div><div><br></div><div>Back in 2010, we had banners pointing to Indic wikis, with messages like, there is a wiki in your language you can edit. Then it lead to landing pages with lists of indic language wikis.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/IN/Welcome">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/IN/Welcome</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_language_projects">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_language_projects</a>
</div><div><br></div><div>This banner ran for close to 2 months in late 2010 and early 2011. I think WMF staff might have tried it again during the year.</div><div><br></div><div>Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to no difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards<br>Theo</div><div><br></div>