A single line like "Wikipedia is also available in Bengali, Hind, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil .... at the top and to the left of "Login/create account link" will be fine. The line can be as what you see in http://www.google.co.in/ . If we feel showing too many languages is clutter, show random and limited number of links for Indic languages.

Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However do note, this is best suited for the desktop version only, not Mobiles. I'd like to point out that - People who use Opera Mini on their mobiles, get routed thru a European server while all BlackBerry users get routed thru a server in London, Hungary or Canada.

Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on every article lists the version of that article available in different languages. Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to no difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:

+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

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(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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 &lt;anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > 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. > Yours sincerely, > > Anirudh Bhati > > +855 975 529 803 > Skype: anirudhsbh > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> I agree with Ravi. >> >> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar &lt;ravidreams(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >