Hi all, The number of registrants found at http://bit.ly/c9voKu is

Would like to know what percentage of them are regular contributors in ml.wiki projects. One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active

present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities. How is the situation for other Indic Wikis? It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . Especially, any lesson to learn on outreach and increasing contributor activity. Regards, Ravi _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl Please see the source code of that template. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > Hi Shiju, > > Good to know. I agree that until each wiki should become self-reliant > without the need to refer en wiki for everything. > > Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? > > Thanks, > > Ravi > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Could the count be explained? May be because of good participation >>> in talk pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits >>> >> >> Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped projecting the >> depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like * >> edits/article*, *bytes per article*, *number of active users*, and so >> on. >> >> - As you have mentioned above, depth shows the overall >> collaboration. Edits in articles, talkpages, portal pages, templates, >> images, and so on helped in increasing the article count. >> - We are away from increasing the article count by creating >> one-liners. Remove all junk one-liners and big articles with english only >> content from your wiki. Depth will surely increase. >> - Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of >> active and dedicated users. We have at least *40 users* with >> number of edita more than 1000. >> http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml… 10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000. >> >> All these have contributed depth of the wiki. >> >> We are not allowing anyone to create one-liners just for the sake of >> increasing the article count. At least fundmental information is required in >> each and every article that is created in Malayalam Wikipedia. Because of >> that *our readers will not run to English wikipedia* to get the >> fundamental information about a topic. >> >> We are trying to attract readers to wiki. The CD project/book >> project/wikiacademies/wiki meetups are all part of the public outreach >> programs. We have many users *who only reads ml wikipedia*. *After >> all if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.* >> >> We give top priority to the usability part of the wiki. Because of >> that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia *that are not >> available in any other language wikipedia*. An example is *pretty url >> *itself. >> >> We are trying to reach the other language wikipedians to get to know >> about their best practices. We feel no shy in copying their best practices. >> >> There are more things. I will write about that some time later. >> >> As in Tamil Wikipedia, *we also have problem in getting local >> Wikipedians to edit the wiki*. I will write about that later. >> >> >> Shiju >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >> >>> Ramesh, >>> >>> That's quite a good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also >>> quite elaborate. well done. >>> >>> I am also curious about the depth of Malayalam Wiki. Could the count >>> be explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages, >>> collaborative articles, regular copy edits?? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ravi >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G <rameshng(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >>> >>>> Ravi >>>> An apprx figures >>>> >>>> # The total attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which >>>> includes newcomers around 60% >>>> # Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the >>>> attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians >>>> >>>> regards >>>> Rameshng >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > The number of registrants found at http://bit.ly/c9voKu is >>>> interesting. >>>> > >>>> > Would like to know what percentage of them are regular >>>> contributors in >>>> > ml.wiki projects. >>>> > >>>> > One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active >>>> contributors are >>>> > present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities. >>>> > >>>> > How is the situation for other Indic Wikis? >>>> > >>>> > It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like >>>> > http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . 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