Hi,
   Yesterday I was asked some tricky questions by a journo. They were something like this :

" Does the surge of number of Indian language Wikipedia articles has anything to do with paid translations by Google ?"

"Why should regular Wikipedians be motivated to contribute when Google pays to do the same ?"

I didn't answer them due to the sensitivity of the issue. But I am now curious on a statistical point of view.

I am not referring to the philosophical question on whether paid editing is good or bad. 

But is there a way to find how many of the articles created in last year were created by normal editors/bots and Google translators in each of the Indian language Wikipedias? Somebody told me , the translators are supposed to leave the translate URLs of Google in the edit summaries to get paid?

Which are the languages on which Google translations are happening ? I know it happens on Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu, at least.  Any other ? I know it is banned to Bengali & Malayalam. 

Regards
Tinu Cherian