Nice idea, Srikanth. <br><br>User:Sodabottle joined Tamil Wiki after the interest generated by the essay contest. So, we are yet to get a active contributor through this campaign. But, we have just started and hope it works. <br>
<br>Ravi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Tamil wikipedians thought of inviting fellow editors of Tamil origin in English wikipedia and pull them over to Tamil wikipedia. User:Ravidreams even called it &quot;hijacking editors&quot; funnily. There was some initial success with editors like User:Sodabottle joining ta.wiki and contributing heavily. (I too joined it, but that does not matter much), It was decided to invite experienced English wikipedians of Tamil origin to contribute to tamil wiki. The advantage being that experienced wiki editors are aware of wiki culture and its mechanisms and the learning curve for them would just be language typing skill. So a &quot;Welcome message&quot;[1] was created and it is decided to post on talk pages. We have started doing this.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Just when i created a template for it, it struck me why not post this to new users as well along with the usual {{Welcome}} template. There could a user in remote places trying to edit about his/her village and when we come across such new users, why not post this welcome to Indic wikipedia message along with welcome template? (I assume most of us welcome new users with a welcome template). They might be unaware of Indic wikipedia / might be more interested in contributing native tongue. So I am just going to try posting the &quot;ContributeToTamilWikipedia&quot; message along with Welcome template whenever i know the user is a Tamil. I have also altered my &quot;Friendly&quot; configuration[2] to have the custom template, so its really easy to welcome users, just a few clicks. If you feel this is good to do, please create welcome message to target your language users and let me know. I would add it to my friendly configuration and can Invite users. Even if I don&#39;t know Bengali, I can invite a Bengali user editing say Siliguri article with a Bengali Wikipedia welcome message and he would at least visit Bengali Wikipedia, if not contribute there.</div>


<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia</a></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia" target="_blank"></a>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/vector.js" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/vector.js</a> </div>


<div><br></div>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a href="http://j.mp/SrikanthL" target="_blank">Google Profile</a><br>
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