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.

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 

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 

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