I would like to add, that the user in question, asked the community's views
(well in advance), that if it was ok to undertake such an effort. And there
were other editors (including me), constantly checking, proofing,
recategorising and maintaining the articles created. This was no slapdash
effort. As the articles concerned were start class, we were able to monitor
them easily. At least seven persons were involved in this effort - this was
no slap dash mass article creation spree.
It was a community effort and the tamil wiki community (which is very
conservative when it comes to article size and bulk creation) was
unanimously behind this effort. I dont know whether we will be able to
duplicate it again, but we will certainly be encouraging such cooperative
work in the future.
-
Bala
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Holalkere Laxmivenkatesh <
hrl.venkatesh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Creating 300 articles in 3 weeks... such news should
make us
to introspect ; surely should not be encouraged !
Once the news used be like this. " Dr. Modi performed ....many eye
operations ..." In my opinion although Dr. Modi was a great eye surgeon, and
a great soul-still as for the Eye Operations are concerned he might have not
made justice to his profession. This job is not like crushing sugar cane
crop !
The above views are mine. I don't care whether any one agrees or not !
-Venkatesh
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks.
Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who created 300 articles
organically in 20 hours.
P.M.Puniyameen (
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:P.M.Puniyameen ) from
Srilanka is a retired academician, prolific writer and independent
journalist. He started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia from November 2010.
In the short span of 5 months he has added 2000+ articles.
He set himself a target creating 200 articles on 20th April but ended up
creating 300 articles in 20 hours. He was helped by his wife, daughter and
two colleagues in typing the articles which were mainly info based articles
on cricketers, small magazines. Earlier, he even created articles from his
bed when he was in a medical rest.
Thought of sharing this story as it is inspiring to see people working
with so much dedication, mobilising people and resources for Wikipedia.
Regards,
Ravi
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