Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects (for Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember seeing many of friends using wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few percentage of Indian readers.
Shiju
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.comwrote:
Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines. But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of their browsers.
Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects (for Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
+855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Ravi.
On 12/20/11, Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com wrote:
This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I
agree
with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
to
Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable
readership
of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
support
this and also to help build Indic language communities. I also hear Theo's point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
measured.
I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
resolved -
to explore this. The first step would be finalise what the objectives
are
(e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
language
projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it encourage more active participation in these proejcts?) The next stage would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure out the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
If
you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
see
what we can do about it. (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for determining what might work best?)
What say?
hisham
+1.
Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
not
be neglected !
Ravi
-- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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