[Wikimediaindia-l] Lower user and edit count of some Indian wikis

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:52 +0530, Shiju Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am from Malayalam Wikipedia. Since you have mentioned about Malyalam
> wikipedia I would like to discuss some thing about the article count
> race (Indian language wikipedias in particular). 
>  
>  
>       * Creating thosands of short pages like this
>         http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%
>         E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%
>         B7:Shortpages&limit=1000&offset=0
>       * Or orphaned pages like this
>         http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%
>         E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%
>         B7:Lonelypages&limit=1000&offset=0
>       * Or copying content from english wikipedia like this
>         http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF
>  
> for the sake of increasing the number of articles in a wiki will not
> increase the quality of a wikipedia or will not do any thing good for
> the language also. 


I agree with Shiju here. I've noticed the trend of articles being
created just for the sake of numbers particularly in Marathi and Bengali
Wiki. Looking at numbers may be fascinating, but without even the basic
quality in content the respective wiki might loose out. 

  - Hari Prasad


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