I agree with Ravi.
On 12/20/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree
with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable readership
of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to support
this and also to help build Indic language communities. I also hear
Theo's
point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately measured.
I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are resolved -
to explore this. The first step would be finalise what the objectives are
(e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic language
projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
encourage more active participation in these proejcts?) The next stage
would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
out
the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.) If
you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see
what we can do about it. (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
determining what might work best?)
What say?
hisham
+1.
Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not
be neglected !
Ravi
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.