Hi all,
I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors to announce it here .. with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their behalf. :)
I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia (
ml.wikipedia.org) crossed 20,000 articles 2 days back.
Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by
Abhishek Jacob is the 20,000 th article to be created. The 15,000th article was born almost a year back in Nov 2010. Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4 b'crats.
There was a coordinated effort fby the Malayalam Wikipedians to organically reach the 20,000 article milestone before Onam and the target was achieved 4 days ahead of "Thiruvonam"
Apart from the discussion pages, the ML Wikipedians used social media networking sites like Facebook groups ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/ ) and twitter extensively to coordinate and encourage this campaign.
This will be also an interesting case study of Wikipedia discussions happening off-wiki and the use of networking sites to promote Wikipedia.
Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind this achievement.
Regards
Tinu Cherian