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.
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@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com> 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@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
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