Unfortunately this has not been going on recently
however in the past there were several articles where more than 3 people
would contribute constantly to bring it to a featured article level.........Hope we can see the same days again.

Hope those days will be back soon. Strengthening the community by bringing back old experienced editors and retaining existing editors are the key. For that focus need to be shifted to that direction. 

I remember in 2010 January Hindi wiki was having approximately 50,000 articles and 50 active users. Now 2 years down the line, we have more than 1 lakh articles, but the number of active users is still 50. Considering the huge speaker base of Hindi, it should have at least 1000 active users now.  

As we can see from the responses of the editors, most of them are not happy with the results of google translation project or bot created articles. As one editor said"

I think that the articles translated using machine translation tools should go under a rigorous review for style, quality and flow before being made 'live'. A number of articles have been created on Hindi Wikipedia with Google translation, but these serve no purpose. The style and the flow (and the English text in untranslated templates, references section etc.) render them of little interest to a native Hindi reader, and the unfixed errors render them useless to Google (whose interest is most probably lies in improving its algorithms and training its bots with good Hindi-language content). When other editors look at such an article, most of them think "Well, this article already has all the necessary content. There is no need for me to edit this." I think a thousand short, unreferenced and well-formatted articles are better than a million long, translated articles translated from English Wikipedia.

Now it is duty of the community to address these concerns. As another editor said "I feel presenting a project as a high-quality project is important for attracting more contributors to it".


The latest statistics also shows that readership for Hindi wikipedia is shooting up. It is showing exponential growth for the past few month. So there is no lack of visibility or awareness for Hindi wikipedia. We should be able to convert at least a small percentage of our readers to editor.

According to me, the key solution to address all the current issues is building the community. 

Shiju

 

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Gunjan Verma <vermagunjan@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Shiju for compiling all this information. I have read through all
the replies from diffrent editors. Some editors have mentioned that there
is no "edit-war" and multiple edit for a single article or collabaration
for a single article. Unfortunately this has not been going on recently
however in the past there were several articles where more than 3 people
would contribute constantly to bring it to a featured article level. Of
course there were edit-wars and that too in good sense. Some examples are

1.
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80
2. http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0
3.
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE

Hope we can see the same days again.

Regards,
Gunjan

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Shiju Alex <shiju@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear Indic Language Wikimedia Community members,
>
> As part of the Indic Languages initiative of India
> Programs<
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages
> >,
> I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language
> wikipedians for the past few weeks.  Yesterday I shared the summary of
> discussions with few Assamese Wikipedians which helped us to understand the
> current situation of  Assamese wikipedia.  Thank you for the discussions
> and ideas that emerged on the mailing list and the talk page.
>
> Today I'm particularly excited to share a summary of the discussions I've
> been been having with *Hindi wikipedians*. It is available here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011
>
> I will be honest and confess that I was not sure about the level of
> engagement I would have with Hindi wikipedians because the community is
> relatively quiet in public forums.  I'm really pleased to report that I was
> very pleasantly surprised by the broad-based, insightful, and constructive
> communications.  Hindi community might be silent but they are active and
> full of powerful ideas. We have seen wonderful Hindi wikipedians like
> Anirudh in WCI. Even though the current community strength of Hindi
> wikipedia might not be good cosidering the huge speaker base of Hindi, I am
> sure the situation will change soon.
>
>
> Even if you are not involved in Hindi projects, I invite you to read this
> report because the points raised are applicable to all Indic languages.
>  Personally, as someone who has been passionate about Indic languages for
> many years now, I found the discussions very educative and informative and
> thought-provoking.  I have learnt a lot from these discussions and I hope
> you find them as useful as I have.  I want to thank Hindi community for
> their time and their fantastic inputs.
>
> Remember most of the issues the Hindi editors raised are applicable not
> only to Hindi but for all the Indic languages. So it is important that
> other Indic language communities take lessons from it while building the
> community.
>
> As mentioned before, I've edited the discussions to protect confidentiality
> as well as to remove any specific personal comments.
>
> Inviting your  active participation in these discussions (either on talk
> page or in the mailing lists).
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Shiju Alex
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