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<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%… 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikiml-l is the mailing list for Malayalam Wikimedia Projects email: Wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Website: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiml-l