Hi All,
I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
Regards, Dhaval