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

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 20:28 +0530, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
wrote:
> It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias like Kannada Language
> wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow
> given the fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective
> states is quite OK and they are immensely contributing to India
> centric articles on English wikipedia in big way.
> 
> Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi  wikipedias are
> lagging behind like nothing.
> 
> Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old
> languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali
> 
> Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count but
> statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve  menimum
> 3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps
> getting adequate content and how do we do that?
> 

I don't know what to make out of your first statement, really. It would
be stupid to say what you've said. 

It might sound rude, but it would be nice if you do some homework before
writing vaguely like this. 

None of the wikis you have mentioned are "slow". They have much better
ratio of quality content to stubs which is what the projects need in
order to grow. An infinite array of stubs isn't going to motivate new
visitors to become editors. Instead, it might just do the opposite.

Literacy levels or IT exposure has nothing significant to do with how
respective language Wikipedias are faring. 

The challenge of motivating more visitors to become editors has to be
addressed with a much different approach. There are technical barriers.
There are differences in culture that affect the way the projects are
received by the native speakers of each language. But I'd rather not
discuss that in a thread that started with some poorly formed
observation. 

  - h.p.