1> Indian language Wikipedias don't have enough quality articles.

Hi,
     I think we should take whatever has been written in the two mails below positively.
We don't need to pinpoint bad things about other language wikipedias at this stage while this group is just in formation stage.

1> Indian language Wikipedias don't have enough quality articles.
2> We need more contributors to add more quality articles.
3> To attract people to Wikipedias we need a valuable information to be already present in them.
     Now how do we do this?
    If you have some ideas that might work in Indian scenario please share them, especially if you have seen them working on your Wikipedia.
 
e.g  Shiju Alex can tell us how ml wikipedia has been able to achieve so many registered users?

Regards,
kolhapuri
mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:कोल्हापुरी

On Jan 16, 2008 9:52 AM, Shiju Alex < shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

I am from Malayalam Wikipedia. Since you have mentioned about Malyalam wikipedia I would like to discuss some thing about the article count race (Indian language wikipedias in particular).

 

 

• Creating thosands of short pages like this http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Shortpages&limit=1000&offset=0
• Or orphaned pages like this http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Lonelypages&limit=1000&offset=0
• Or copying content from english wikipedia like this http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF

 

for the sake of increasing the number of articles in a wiki will not increase the quality of a wikipedia or will not do any thing good for the language also.

 

If we would have adopted one of the above techiques we would have been well ahead in the number of articles, since malayalam wikipedia has the maximum number of registered users among all the indian language wikipedias (More than 4400).

 

Please go through the various quality parameters listed in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias , for an understanding about various indian langauage wikipedias.

 

 

Regards

 

Shiju Alex

 

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 1/15/08, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia < mahitgar@yahoo.co.in > wrote:

It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias like Kannada Language wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow given the fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective states is quite OK and they are immensely contributing to India centric articles on English wikipedia in big way.   Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi  wikipedias are lagging behind like nothing.   Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali   Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count but statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve  menimum 3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps getting adequate content and how do we do that?   Thanks and Regards Mahitgar

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