On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all, Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is primary driven by search traffic ,apparently this had a negative effect as shown by WM stats. As he explains, the problem is there needs to be canonical equivalence between the old and new Unicode .. This is a larger issue and it is time that the foundation has a stake on the Unicode consortium ( and search engines too ? ;) )..
From the blog post:
Traffic for the Malayalam Wikipedia http://ml.wikipedia.org/ has gone down dramatically while the number of articles and the number of editors has gone up. WHY??
When you look at the statisticshttp://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm, you will see that traffic halved in a couple of months.
That is quite sad and at the same time intriguing!
Has this affected other Indian languages as well?