How about we merge both ideas together?
  1. Each country and/or language will submit a list of articles (the list will be public for all to see)
  2. These lists will be collated and put through the randomizer
  3. The randomizer generates the collaboration of the week
Because the aim is to translate articles as well into participating languages, for those who want to translate articles from English into a target language, that will happen one week later, to allow time for expansion work to take place.  So the collaboration for week 1, for example, will not be translated from English into another language until week 2, and so on.

Also, we have to make sure that the randomizer is programmed so that we minimize the possibility of collaborations coming from the same country being done consecutively.

Josh
 
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Hi,

I have mentioned in the meeting last Saturday, that we put it on a randomizer (lottery) : http://www.random.org/.

Section A: For Endemic Languages

Each country will suggest 5 A to B-class articles related to their country (like cultural or non-political event, local personality, place, endemic flora/fauna) in English language. From all articles deposited, the randomizer will select 1 article per week and it will run for 10 weeks (2 and a half months). That 1 article should be a A class article at the end of the week for each language. Each country must work on a minimum of 1 local language and maximum of 5 local languages.


Section B: For English language dominated countries

Each Asia Pacific country must submit 5 stub to C-Class articles related to their country (like cultural or non-political event, local personality, place, endemic flora/fauna) in English language. From all articles deposited, the randomizer will select 1 article per week and it will run for 10 weeks (2 and a half months). That 1 article should be a A class article at the end of the week in English language.



Butch


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <srik.ramk@wikimedia.in> wrote:
Josh, some languages are still in the incubator, while most have their own Wikipedia.
A list of the currently available languages [Indian] are here: http://live.wikimedia.in/

On a related note, I have mentioned this collaboration on the talk page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilavati%27s_Daughters_Edit-a-thon

Perhaps, this might help in some large scale collaboration. 




On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com <jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> wrote:
Do each of those languages have a Wikipedia? List composition is left to the national editing communities to decide: they can either make a national list, or make a longer list which combines individual languages' lists. (By language, I mean a Wikipedia which will participate in the program. If, let's say, Konkani or Assamese doesn't want to participate, they are free to do so, but they cannot contribute to the list of articles participating in the program.)

Josh

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Hi, while I wasn't party to the original conversation,  I do have my doubts about this project and its scope in India. We have 20 officially recognised languages in our country. Each. Language has an associated culture with it with is unique.  Could be quite a headache. 
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On Aug 13, 2013 3:51 PM, "Craig Franklin" <cfranklin@halonetwork.net> wrote:
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I was going to suggest something even more modest and have one article per country/language/wiki.  If we can do that minimum successfully then next time we can aim for a higher goal.
Cheers,
Craig
On 12/08/2013 8:08 PM, "Jack LEE" <jacklee@smu.edu.sg> wrote:
Hi,

On the list archives -- OK, though honestly I'm not sure whether I'm prepared to plow through all the archives.

On the cultural exchange programme -- 20 articles per country seems really ambitious, especially if the point was to have some tangible results within three months. I mean, let's say only China, South Korea and the Philippines nominate 20 articles each. That means our friend from Israel who offered to translate these articles for the Hebrew Wikipedia will have 60 articles to translate. I would suggest about two to three articles for a start, and no more than five per country. Finish these first, and then nominate some more.

Cheers,
Jack
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