On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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
statistics<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthly.ht…tm>,
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?
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