A small fraction of users could be from other wiki projects whose accounts might
be autocreated when a user who is signed in other wikis visits Hindi Wikipedia.
Apart from that, I suspect that the biggest barrier could be not knowing how to
type in Hindi as Gautam said.
It helps to post a help page link (with some English text for those without
proper font support) prominently. Would like this study to be extended to other
Indian language wikis to understand what works. May I request Frank Schulenberg
to include Tamil wiki also if it's not too much additional work?
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
----- Original Message ----
From: Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 6:07:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question for Hindi Wikipedians
On 21 September 2010 17:56, theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
First Hindi is dominant in only half the
country, its has 400-500 million
speaker in India, around half the total population.
The South on the other hand has a mix of quiet a few popular languages and
Hindi is looked upon as rather Superfluous
Sure and that would explain the relatively lower sign up rates for
Hindi (though it would be nice to see sign up rates for other
languages too) but doesn't quite explain 90% don't edit post that.
Would it be a fair assumption that creating an account on Hindi
Wikipedia is to say that the user is a native Hindi speaker/writer? No
other reason to create an account, no?
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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