മറാത്തി വിക്കിപീഡിയയെ കുറിച്ച് വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഇന്ത്യാ മെയിലിങ്ങ് ലിസ്റ്റിൽ വന്ന ഒരു മെയിൽ ആണു് താഴെ. <br><br>ഇത്തരത്തിൽ ഒരു സ്ഥിതി വിശെഷത്തിലേക്ക് താഴാതിരിക്കാൻ നമ്മളെല്ലാം ശ്രദ്ധിക്കണം. നമ്മൾ എഴുതുന്ന ലെഖനങ്ങൾ വായനക്കാരനു് അടിസ്ഥാനപരമായ വിവരങ്ങളെങ്കിലും നൽകുന്നു എന്ന് നമ്മൾ ഉറപ്പു് വരുത്തണം. ഇപ്പോൾ നമ്മളതു് ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നുണ്ടു്. ഇത്തരം മെയിലുകൾ, നമ്മൾ പണ്ടു് മുതലേ അനുവർത്തിച്ചു് വരുന്ന നയത്തിന്റെ പ്രാധാന്യം വെളിവാക്കുന്നു<br>
<br><br>ഷിജു<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">YellowMonkey</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:blnguyen2230@gmail.com">blnguyen2230@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM<br>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cricket articles on Marathi Wikipedia, other meaningless inflation of 	article counts<br>To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<br><br><div>I don&#39;t know who to talk to about it specifically, but there is some problem with the cricket articles on the Marathi Wikipedia; perhaps it is indicative of a wider trend</div>
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<div>Lots of English wikipedia Australian cricketer articles have Marathi interwikis more than any other language. But going to all of them, they consist of three parts</div>
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<div>*Stub message</div>
<div>*Empty infobox</div>
<div>*The same five words as following</div>
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<div>उदाहरणादाखल <a title="सचिन तेंडुलकर" href="https://mail.google.com/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0" target="_blank"><font color="#002bb8">सचिन तेंडुलकर</font></a> हा लेख पहा.</div>


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<div>The wikilink goes to Sachin Tendulkar, judging by the photo</div>
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<div>I went to the Marathi article on Len Hutton, and clicked on the cat</div>
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<div><a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97:%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%82" target="_blank">http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97:%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%82</a></div>


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<div>Presumably this is the cat for English cricketers? I randomly clicked on about 15 of them and all of them have the same sentence. The same thing happens on teh Australian, NZ and South African cats by following the interwiki, about 800 articles appear to be completely empty or more useless than a substub.</div>


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<div>Whoever did this, all they are doing is meaninglessly inflating the article count with articles that are all but empty except for an irrelevant comment about Sachin Tendulkar.</div>
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<div>They may think it makes Marathi Wikipedia look better on the article count rankings, but it is only likely to make it look like a farce, especially if this is widespread.</div>
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<div>It may trick a few admins in other Wikipedias into being impressed and generate some fake prestige, but there is also a chance that anyone who might use/contribute might consider the WP to be a joke, or people from other projects who bother to take a look will think that the culture of the Marathi project is to fraudulently inflate themselves with misleading statistics</div>


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<div>I checked another Indic wp with the random function and saw a very substantial minority consisting of empty section headers cut and pasted around the place, although the depth ranking is very high.</div>
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<div>The depth can be gamed very easily, but it doesn&#39;t do anything useful except for false bragging and probably harm in the long term</div>
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<div>Can someone who knows Marathi deal with those cricket articles please.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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