Hi Dhaval,
CIS-A2K does not have any role in the creation of these articles.
Muzammil remains one of our valuable ex-employees since March 15, 2014.
Please see this announcement [1].
1.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-April/011040.html
Thanks,
Subha
On 25/04/14 2:58 pm, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote:
Hi Asaf, Ravi, All,
Please see below replies received from Muzammil on queries raised by
you. I did not notice that Muzammil is part of CIS. It looks like the
Urdu content generation is a task carried out by CIS A2K program under
wikimedia grant.
Do you (WMF) have any specific budget for such tasks? Gujarati wiki
community will love to get paid for content generation.
Thanks,
Dhaval
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "muzammil" <muzammil(a)cis-india.org
<mailto:muzammil@cis-india.org>>
Date: 25 Apr 2014 10:09
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark
To: "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsvyas(a)gmail.com <mailto:dsvyas@gmail.com>>
Cc: "Wikipedia Gujarati" <wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:wikipedia-gu@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Dear Vyas,
Good News Muzammil,
But I have seen questions raised for you regarding this number.
People have found out that till mid February there were only
around 27 thousand pages, how did Urdu wikipedia reach 50,000 mark
in 2 months?
I will have to examine the extent of bot activity. However, a high
level of bot activity was also seen on Hindi Wikipedia in the past.
Someone also found that most of the recent activity is due to Bot
operation and 90% of pages are less than 20kb in size, which means
they are nearly substubs.
I would rate most as "stubs". But even these can be forerunners for
good articles of the future.
Regards,
Muzammil
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