Congratulations All Malayalam Wikipedians. What a wonderful way to celebrate Onam!
Malayalam Wikipedia is a shining example of building a community and driving quality of
content. Now, it's leading the way in using social media to encourage participation
and promote projects. Hats Off!
Happy Onam!
hisham
On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:22 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
Hi all,
I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors to announce it here ..
with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their behalf. :)
I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia (
ml.wikipedia.org) crossed 20,000
articles 2 days back.
Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by Abhishek Jacob is the 20,000 th
article to be created. The 15,000th article was born almost a year back in Nov 2010.
Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4
b'crats.
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
There was a coordinated effort fby the Malayalam Wikipedians to organically reach the
20,000 article milestone before Onam and the target was achieved 4 days ahead of
"Thiruvonam"
Apart from the discussion pages, the ML Wikipedians used social media networking sites
like Facebook groups (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/ ) and twitter extensively
to coordinate and encourage this campaign.
This will be also an interesting case study of Wikipedia discussions happening off-wiki
and the use of networking sites to promote Wikipedia.
Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind this achievement.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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