I am just interested in sharing positive steps which we can learn from each other.Realy what motivated me in writing about the issue were not article race comparison.The fact is I am just concerned with growth of all Indian Language Wikipedias.I did not compare any wikipedia with Mr wiki which I belong to because I am well aware of Mr.Wikis limitations too.
Certainly at least we can share best of each wikipedias aproaches and I am realy pleased to know Malyalam WIkipedia is well above 4400 membership ,I am quite interested in knowing how did they achive this .
And my concern for Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi wikis remains.
Thanks and Regards
--- On Wed, 16/1/08, Hari Prasad Nadig <mail@hpnadig.net> wrote:
From: Hari Prasad Nadig <mail@hpnadig.net>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lower user and edit count of some Indian wikis
To: mahitgar@yahoo.co.in, wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, 16 January, 2008, 12:20 PM
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 20:28 +0530, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
wrote:
> It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias like Kannada Language
> wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow
> given the fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective
> states is quite OK and they are immensely contributing to India
> centric articles on English wikipedia in big way.
>
> Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi wikipedias are
> lagging behind like nothing.
>
> Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old
> languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali
>
> Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count but
> statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve menimum
> 3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps
> getting adequate content and how do we do that?
>
I don't know what to make out of your first statement, really. It would
be stupid to say what you've said.
It might sound rude, but it would be nice if you do some homework before
writing vaguely like this.
None of the wikis you have mentioned are "slow". They have much
better
ratio of quality content to stubs which is what the projects need in
order to grow. An infinite array of stubs isn't going to motivate new
visitors to become editors. Instead, it might just do the opposite.
Literacy levels or IT exposure has nothing significant to do with how
respective language Wikipedias are faring.
The challenge of motivating more visitors to become editors has to be
addressed with a much different approach. There are technical barriers.
There are differences in culture that affect the way the projects are
received by the native speakers of each language. But I'd rather not
discuss that in a thread that started with some poorly formed
observation.
- h.p. |