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Do you - or someone else - have any plans to add these at some point in time?
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I have added my views about the Indian Wikipedias statistics (2010 January)  in my blog. The link to the blog post is http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/02/indian-language-wikipedias-statistics.html

Please feel free to add your suggestions/analysis as comment to the post. I encourage publishing your views/comment as separate blog post also. We can also discuss about the same in the mailing list.

I hope analyzing the statistics will benefit all the Indian language wikis. I would like to emphasis one point regarding the localization of MediaWiki messages.

Localization of the Wiki software is very important when we are trying to reach to prospective Wikipedians in any language. A website with the interface and all system messages in your local language has edge over a website with English only content among your language community.

GerardM  has been enlightening us regarding this many times. He has also send mails regarding this to the wikimediaindia mailing list a couple of times. I request the respective community to give top priority to localize the Mediawiki messages to your language.


Thank you

Shiju Alex



On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:
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Do you - or someone else - have any plans to add these at some point in time?
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Yes very much. I am preparing a blog post based on these numbers. Infact for the past 1.5 years we are publishing an analysis based on these numbers in Malayalam wiki mailing list each month.

I know the current information is not "analysis". But I hope it will improve as we move forward based on the valuable inputs from all of you.

Siebrand, Erik,

I have noticed that in all the statistics tables at different locations,   Bhojpuri language is representented as Bihari. But Bhojupuri is one of the Bihari languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihari_languages). Other Bihari languages are : Angika  · Bhojpuri  · Fiji Hindi  · Kudmali  · Magahi  · Maithili  · Majhi  · Musasa  · Panchpargania  · Sadri  · Sadri, Oraon  · Sarnami Hindustani  · Surajpuri  · Vajjika

Please see whether this information needs to updated. 


Thank you

Shiju



On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland@xs4all.nl> wrote:
Hi Shiju Alex,

*very* nice overview in numbers.

You’re calling it an ‘analysis’. Usually I expect some prose with an analysis – reasoning, assumptions and conclusions.

Do you - or someone else - have any plans to add these at some point in time? Currently each reader has to go through all the tables, make his own observations, mix in some assumptions and distill conclusions from those. I truly understand that commenting on numbers is probably even more work than gathering them in the current format in the first place.

It could however be very valuable – and a great discussion starter – if someone would comment on the numbers say every 6 months. It would also allow readers of the report to just read the words, and have the tables as an annex.

Next steps could be to add goals, strategies to archieve them, and assess the goals and strategies later on, based on this type of report.

Comments?

Siebrand

From: wikimediaindia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Shiju Alex
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:29 PM
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias - Statistical report - 2010 January

Hello All

Please see the PDF file available at the location http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2010_01_january_en.pdf for a detailed statistical analysis of the Indian language wikipedias for the month of 2010 January.

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