Rather than replacing, I suggest reorganising the order. Indic ones on
top and others below. Who knows, an Indian may try and access European
or African languages too.
On 12/20/11, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently, the landing page for
www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
to
wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects (for
Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember seeing many of friends
using
wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current
non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be
one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few
percentage of Indian readers.
Shiju
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
> But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
> typing in
www.wikipedia.com or
www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
> their browsers.
Currently, the landing page for
www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
to
wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects (for
Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
> +855 975 529 803
> Skype: anirudhsbh
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Ravi.
>>
>> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I
>> agree
>> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
>> to
>> >> Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable
>> readership
>> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
>> support
>> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities. I also hear
>> >> Theo's
>> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
>> measured.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
>> resolved -
>> >> to explore this. The first step would be finalise what the objectives
>> are
>> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
>> language
>> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?) The next
>> >> stage
>> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and
>> >> figure
>> >> out
>> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>> If
>> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy
to
>> see
>> >> what we can do about it. (Maybe see if any of the fundraising
team's
>> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>> >> determining what might work best?)
>> >>
>> >> What say?
>> >>
>> >> hisham
>> >>
>> >
>> > +1.
>> >
>> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work
>> > as
>> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
>> not
>> > be neglected !
>> >
>> > Ravi
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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