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.com redirects 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

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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
>

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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

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