Hi -
Frank Schulenberg did an interesting analysis that looked at the
proportion of people creating a new account on Wikipedia who go on to
make an edit within 10 days. It was surprising to see that Hindi
Wikipedia had a very different rate that some other projects (see
below). Can anyone share an explanation?
English 31
German 35
Russian 26
Swedish 30
Hindi 9
FYI - Frank did this for a new initiative starting in October:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project
Best,
Barry
Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
Dear All,
Wikimedians from Mumbai are meeting on 2010 September 20. Please sign on the
wiki page if you are based in Mumbai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai1
Here are the date and venue details:
- *Date:* : Monday, *2010-September-20* 6:00 PM
IST<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IST>
- *Venue:*: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Blue Heaven, Linking Road,
Opposite Shell Petrol Pump, Bandra West, Mumbai-400050
Requesting all wikimedians from Mumbai to attend this meet
Shiju Alex
So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She left
out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled
the theme of the story. ;-)
> 3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital
> in India?
>
We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We hope that every
city and town will be a wiki-capital.
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-…
--
Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
People,
Do you know of a good way to upload our own FlickR entries to Commons? I'm
aware of the tool that pulls in FlickR uploads that are in CC-by-SA.
However, it doesn't provision for or consider the case of the original
uploader of the photo syncing photos from FlickR to commons. Any ideas?
Are there any clients to add photos to Commons?
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
Dear All,
Wikimedians from Pune are meeting tomorrow at Pune University.
http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%…
Here are the details:
- *Date:* : Saturday, *18-September-2010* 5:30 PM
IST<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IST>
- *Venue:*: Conference room, ground floor, Women's Studies centre, Dr
Ambedkar Bhavan, University of Pune
Requesting all wikimedians from Pune to attend this meet
Shiju Alex
Hoi,
Eugene Kim has written a first blog in a series of four. In it he writes
about choices that may have to be made in order to support India.
http://blueoxen.com/blog/2010/09/wikimedia-what-is-it-where-is-it-headed/
I have replied to what he has to say; there is in my opinion no need to make
a choice. What is needed is to support Indian languages by providing a level
playing field.
http://blueoxen.com/blog/2010/09/wikimedia-what-is-it-where-is-it-headed/
In my opinion the discussion has been opened. I am eager to learn your
opinions. I am happy to host guest blogs. I will help with proof reading
where needed. Most relevant for me is that opinions are expressed so that
they can be considered.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available
about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/09/wikipedia-page-edits-a-global-perspectiv…
I just saw some surprising trends if you look at a language and country-wise
breakdown of page views and edits.
1.India is No. 15 globally in terms of Wikipedia page views and edits which
is expected for having only 7% internet usage, one of the lowest in the
first 50 countries on the list.
2. India is still the fifth largest viewer of the English Wikipedia.
3. 94% of Indian Wikimedians view the English Wikipedia, the second largest
language group for India after English is Hindi with 0.6% of total views.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerCountryTren…
4. 70% of edits from India are on the English Wikipedia (this marks a
gradual fall in edits from 81% in Q4 2009) followed by 6.6% for Telugu (this
quarter also marks a large increase in edits in Telugu and Tamil languages,
while Hindi and Malayalam both registered a drop)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportEditsPerCountryTrend…
The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits
per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBre…
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi,
followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the
most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages
is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of
views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its
lowest.
The number of views from India is highest at 94% to the English Wikipedia
but the number of edits has been steadily dropping at a very sharp rate
(almost 10% in the last year).
Regards
Salmaan
Hi everyone
I would like to announce the First Delhi Wikipedia/Wikimedia Meetup on
Wednesday, September 22 at 6.00PM/1800 IST. The venue has been chosen as
the Cha Bar at Oxford Bookstore in the Statesman House Building, Barakhamba
Road, Connaught Place. There is more information available at the Meetup
page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi1
Barry Newstead from the foundation is also scheduled to attend, there is no
set agenda so everyone is free to talk about anything that might be of
interest to the projects or the foundation.
This invitation is open to anyone and everyone interested in the Wikimedia
movement. Please leave your name on the meetup page if you are planning to
attend.
Any queries can be directed at me in the mean time, let me know if there is
anything I can do.
Regards
Salmaan
FYI.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Singh Bhati
B.Com, LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University,
Gandhinagar, India.
Handphone: +919328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
If this email were legal advice, it would be followed by a bill.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel J Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Open IRC meeting with Wikimedia Trustees: Saturday, 1600
UTC
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
In an annual effort to welcome new Board members with an informal
chat, the newest Wikimedia Trustees (Phoebe and Bishakha) are taking
part in an open meeting on IRC this Saturday. This is a forum to
discuss Wikimedia issues and anything else that's on your mind.
Where : #wikimedia on irc.freenode.net
When : Saturday September 11, 1600-1700 UTC
(That's 0900 PST / 1200 EST / 1800 CEST / 2130 IST)
All are welcome - please join the meeting with ideas or questions
about Wikimedia and the Projects, or simply with good cheer! If you
have a topic to add to the agenda, please add it on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_meetings#September_2010
We will keep the meeting to an hour, and will cover the agenda before
moving to an open discussion. Summary minutes will be published.
I hope to see many of you there,
Sam
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