Hi. I'm more active on Hindi Wikipedia. My observation is that many people who come from english wiki to local wikis tend to enforce quality too much. Its like forcing diet of a body builder upon a kid. This takes toll on new contributors who do have good intentions and may be groomed. Keeping in view the life-cycle thing, we have to compromise a little on quality till a critical mass is reached and enforce the quality slowly and steadily. I've been here for last one year and i think hindi wiki is showing a steady growing trend. As far as new tech like tablets, smartphones are concerned, i feel they are helpful as local language typing apps are more easy to operate on tablets etc than on a pc. Regards. Manoj. On Jul 30, 2014 5:49 PM, &lt;wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimediaindia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias (Ravishankar) > 2. Re: Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias (ansuman) > 3. Re: Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias (Ravishankar) > 4. Re: Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias (ansuman) > 5. Re: Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias > (Moksh Juneja) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:09:03 +0530 > From: Ravishankar &lt;ravidreams(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: Wikimedia India Community list > &lt;wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian > Wikipedias > Message-ID: > < > CAF2QyrAJdrwtBRt2SEfPZg9rBiC50-r-WvM9e9_L5BP60z1OXA(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey, > > I have been noting declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias for > the > last few months. > > > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/telugu-wikipe… > > triggered to write this mail. > > This is my view on what's happening: > > 1. Most of the Indian Wikipedias have crossed 10 years. Many of the active > and first generation contributors are burnt out, taking a leave or have > left for good. If you are not creative, intentional and consistent in your > efforts to replenish and nurture the next generation, you will see a > declining trend. > > 2. Malayalam Wikipedia which once had 30 contributors who made 100+ edits > a > month registered only 10 such editors in May 2014. The last time they had > activity this low was during May 2011. At the same time, their Wiki Source > is registering a phenomenal growth. So, some resources could be split > between projects too. This is a good reason to not start too many > projects. > Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource should be good enough unless you have a > huge community. > > 3. Focus on offline projects like events, celebrations. While they are > good, over doing can stress few active contributors. In my experience, > every time after organizing some offline event, there is too much burn out > and people return after months. > > 4. Things that plague all global Wikipedias - archaic editor, social media > distractions, increasing use of tablets / smart phones. > > Future will be quite challenging :) > > Ravi >