Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of local Wikipedians

Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl Please see the source code of that template. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > Hi Shiju, > Good to know. I agree that until each wiki should become self-reliant > without the need to refer en wiki for everything. > Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? > Thanks, > Ravi > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >> Could the count be explained? May be because of good participation in >>> talk pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits >>>>> Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped projecting the >> depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like * >> edits/article*, *bytes per article*, *number of active users*, and so >> on. >>> - As you have mentioned above, depth shows the overall >> collaboration. Edits in articles, talkpages, portal pages, templates, >> images, and so on helped in increasing the article count. >> - We are away from increasing the article count by creating >> one-liners. Remove all junk one-liners and big articles with english only >> content from your wiki. Depth will surely increase. >> - Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of >> active and dedicated users. We have at least *40 users* with number >> of edita more than 1000. >> http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml… 10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000. >>> All these have contributed depth of the wiki. >>> We are not allowing anyone to create one-liners just for the sake of >> increasing the article count. At least fundmental information is required in >> each and every article that is created in Malayalam Wikipedia. Because of >> that *our readers will not run to English wikipedia* to get the >> fundamental information about a topic. >>> We are trying to attract readers to wiki. The CD project/book >> project/wikiacademies/wiki meetups are all part of the public outreach >> programs. We have many users *who only reads ml wikipedia*. *After all >> if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.* >>> We give top priority to the usability part of the wiki. Because of >> that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia *that are not >> available in any other language wikipedia*. An example is *pretty url >> *itself. >>> We are trying to reach the other language wikipedians to get to know >> about their best practices. We feel no shy in copying their best practices. >>> There are more things. I will write about that some time later. >>> As in Tamil Wikipedia, *we also have problem in getting local >> Wikipedians to edit the wiki*. I will write about that later. >>>> Shiju >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >>>> Ramesh, >>>>> That's quite a good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also >>> quite elaborate. well done. >>>>> I am also curious about the depth of Malayalam Wiki. Could the count >>> be explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages, >>> collaborative articles, regular copy edits?? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Ravi >>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G <rameshng(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >>>>>> Ravi >>>> An apprx figures >>>>>>> # The total attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which >>>> includes newcomers around 60% >>>> # Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the >>>> attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians >>>>>>> regards >>>> Rameshng >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> >>>> > The number of registrants found at http://bit.ly/c9voKu is >>>> interesting. >>>> >>>> > Would like to know what percentage of them are regular contributors >>>> in >>>> > ml.wiki projects. >>>> >>>> > One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active >>>> contributors are >>>> > present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities. >>>> >>>> > How is the situation for other Indic Wikis? >>>> >>>> > It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like >>>> > http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . Especially, any lesson to learn on outreach >>>> and >>>> > increasing contributor activity. >>>> >>>> > Regards, >>>> >>>> > Ravi >>>> >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>>>>>>>>> -- >>> 1 GB @ 10 USD per year web hosting. >>>>> http://milkhost.com/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> -- > 1 GB @ 10 USD per year web hosting. > http://milkhost.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l