OK, where were we :)
Ah yes, I was asking about the outcome of CIS's work in general in Kannada Wikipedia.
I
wanted to hear the story from the community as most of the reports by
CIS are unilateral. So, CIS or its partners are under no obligation to
answer here. But, as Pavanaja had mentioned that he had answered my
questions, I would like to clarify that some of my concerns remain
unanswered.
* What is the direct impact of numerous Kannada outreach sessions done?
you
have even exceeded the dream target for number of outreach sessions
even 6 months in advance ! I wonder why this is even set as a target
when it is documented to have negligible value by WMF.
* Regarding Christ University partnership, I would like to have few clarifications.
In this mail thread, you have written as follows:
//I
have personally interacted with many students. There are quite a good
number of students who are passionate about enriching Kannada language
and bringing latest knowledge into Kannada by way of adding articles to
Kannada Wikipedia. Nurturing those students will help not only Kannada
Wikipedia but also Kannada language and people in general. Again, I
would emphasis, let us be optimistic. //
it is documented as follows:
"Retaining these as active editors will be a difficult task. Writing
article on Wikipedia was a compulsory activity for the students. Only a
small percentage of these students have realised the importance of
writing on Wikipedia and promised to continue editing Wikipedia."
Both are official statements from CIS and are contradicting each other. At least, the optimism shared :)
In this context, I have few issues:
can mislead the FDC as they don't take into account the project returning to natural growth rates afterwards.
says 800 students studying Hindi are also enrolled in this project.
Is the Hindi community kept in loop about this effort?
Where it also notes
"A pilot with more than 1,000 students will result in an unmanageable
amount of new material for a finite editor community to monitor"
If 1000 students is a problem for the gigantic English community, how is the relatively smaller Hindi Wikipedia handling 800 students?
How is Kannada Wikipedia handling 600 students?
This
is especially important as unlike Pune education program, we don't have
campus ambassadors, online ambassadors and the entire work load is on
the community or the professors (if they are helping).
Given that most of the Indic Wiki communities are still reeling from the work load of Google Translation project,
how equipped are the communities to engage these students, clean up and nurture them in to active contributors?
*
Is CIS engaging in this kind of high volume education program because
its previous outings with voluntary enrollment of students did not
produce sufficient results?
For example,
And that's all for now !
Ravi