Hi,
Just a small observation from my side:
On 17 May 2014 16:40, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/wikipedia-tap…
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