Bad idea ... we are in short in number
*WP:IND<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND>... :P
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On 29 October 2010 08:46, arjuna rao chavala <arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Good idea to promote indic wikis
Arjun
On 10/29/10, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Nice idea, Srikanth.
User:Sodabottle joined Tamil Wiki after the interest generated by the
essay
contest. So, we are yet to get a active
contributor through this
campaign.
But, we have just started and hope it works.
Ravi
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
<srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Tamil wikipedians thought of inviting fellow editors of Tamil origin in
> English wikipedia and pull them over to Tamil wikipedia. User:Ravidreams
> even called it "hijacking editors" funnily. There was some initial
success
> with editors like User:Sodabottle joining
ta.wiki and contributing
> heavily.
> (I too joined it, but that does not matter much), It was decided to
invite
> experienced English wikipedians of Tamil
origin to contribute to tamil
> wiki.
> The advantage being that experienced wiki editors are aware of wiki
> culture
> and its mechanisms and the learning curve for them would just be
language
> typing skill. So a "Welcome
message"[1] was created and it is decided to
> post on talk pages. We have started doing this.
>
> Just when i created a template for it, it struck me why not post this to
> new users as well along with the usual {{Welcome}} template. There could
a
> user in remote places trying to edit about
his/her village and when we
> come
> across such new users, why not post this welcome to Indic wikipedia
> message
> along with welcome template? (I assume most of us welcome new users with
a
> welcome template). They might be unaware of
Indic wikipedia / might be
> more
> interested in contributing native tongue. So I am just going to try
> posting
> the "ContributeToTamilWikipedia" message along with Welcome template
> whenever i know the user is a Tamil. I have also altered my "Friendly"
> configuration[2] to have the custom template, so its really easy to
> welcome
> users, just a few clicks. If you feel this is good to do, please create
> welcome message to target your language users and let me know. I would
add
> it to my friendly configuration and can
Invite users. Even if I don't
know
Bengali,
I can invite a Bengali user editing say Siliguri article with a
Bengali Wikipedia welcome message and he would at least visit Bengali
Wikipedia, if not contribute there.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia>[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/vector.js
Regards
Srikanth.L
Google Profile <http://j.mp/SrikanthL>
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