Thank you for the interest, Srikanth. Hope someone's able to do something along these lines (yes, "suitable" interwiki link surfaced in a banner will do) during the hackathon. Topical cues can be taken up later, but we should pluck the low-hanging fruits first. :)
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak@gmail.com>
To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse@yahoo.com>; Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 16:14, BalaSundaraRaman
<sundarbecse@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi all,
[Apologies if a similar thing has been proposed earlier, I haven't been able to read much of the recent discussions.]
I had a thought of channelling readers and editors of English Wikipedia (and similar projects) to other Indian language wikis based on their IP addresses and the topic being read. I've put down the proposal at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Funneling_multilingual_readers_and_editors_based_on_geographic_and_topical_cues as it is applicable elsewhere too than just India. Please read and discuss the proposal. It'll be great if some of us can take
the lead and do a pilot with two or three Wikis. Personally, I'll not be able to commit much time these days, but can support if somebody takes the lead. I suggest that we can put up a project page (specific to Indian wikis) at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12 if there is enough support
Good idea Sundar. I have something in mind just to bring in interwiki links on sitenotice banner dynamically, so we can run a "dynamic" campaign. Geo-based banners would be good. Am not sure how easy would it be to include categories into the picture. But one more thing to work at India Hackathon. Thanks!
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Regards
Srikanth.L