Hi, Just a small observation from my side:
On 17 May 2014 16:40, Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/wikipedia-taps... where Pavanaja quotes as follows: //There was a significant increase in the number of editors after 500 students of Christ University, Bangalore, were trained in editing at a workshop held in January this year.// And when you look at Kannada Wikipedia stats, the user activity has returned to pre-education programme levels within a month http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaKN.htm
It is true that the stats peaked during the workshop and dropped after. This is normal for any workshop - either paid or unpaid - as one would have to work within the constraints of a university calendar. The workshop was not one-off but an effort to include 'collaborative writing in the local language' into the curriculum using wikipedia as a tool. Since integrating wikipedia editing has the potential to improve the pedagogy, activities for the next four semesters are in the pipeline. The idea is to make editing a self-sustaining process and we are planning on these lines.
I appreciate the effort you are making in trying to understand how the system works and how we can constructively change it. Regards Vikram