Hello,

Have never visited Urdu Wikipedia myself, but from the face of data shared by user dvyas, this sounds like a gross manipulation.

23000 articles in just two months? and how many users contributed? Even if we assume that 100 users contributed everyday, this comes to approx 4 new articles everyday...

Do they have so many users available? Otherwise this sounds like GROSS MANIPULATION.

Wikipedia in any languages should exist to serve Knowledge. and Knowledge is better represented by the quality of articles and not by numbers.

Any automated process can generate lot many pages. For example, Using LibreOffice on Linux, anyone can generate thousands of articles with very little knowledge about computer programming. My point here is that even BOT is not required to generate pages.

Lots many pages can be generated by using latest version of LibreOffice and a small amount of Linux Programming. and the fun part if that it would look like pages created by legitimate users.

So let us stay away from NUMBER GAME. If we really really want to increase no of pages, it MUST be by using legitimate users and legitimate content. Thats all.

Regards,

>Good News Muzammil,
>But I have seen questions raised for you regarding this number. People have
>found out that till mid February there were only around 27 thousand pages,
>how did Urdu wikipedia reach 50,000 mark in 2 months? Someone also found
>that most of the recent activity is due to Bot operation and 90% of pages
>are less than 20kb in size, which means they are nearly substubs.
>Can you please clarify all these?
>Thanks,
>User: Dsvyas
>On 24 Apr 2014 18:04, "muzammil" <muzammil@cis-india.org> wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I am pleased to inform you that today the Urdu Wikipedia has crossed the
>> 50,000 articles mark.
>>
>> I am honoured to be a humble contributor of this Wikipedia which has
>> reached a dream milestone which is yet to be covered by many other
>> Wikipedias.
>>
>> The focus, as the community feels, will now shift on referencing and
>> elaborating many of the existing articles to satisfactory levels.
>>
>> Also, the next target is to cross the 1,00,000 articles mark.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Muzammil.
>>