[Wikimediaindia-l] Number of local Wikipedians

Wed Apr 21 04:16:22 UTC 2010

I think he deleted it because the title was in English. We should try pretty url on the real article on Malayalam.
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On Wed Apr 21st, 2010 8:56 AM IST CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

> Natkeeran deleted it. Notifying him regarding this thread
>- Tinu Cherian
>
>On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Jyothis Edathoot <je at jyothis.net> wrote:
>
>> looks like that got deleted.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jyothis.
>>
>> http://www.Jyothis.net
>>
>> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Added the template in Tamil Wiki and created one pretty url for the
>>> article malayalam. For example see,
>>> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam
>>>
>>> Minor tweaking of template is required. We will help to fix it.
>>>
>>> Shiju
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Shiju. Should see if we can make sense from the malayalam page.
>>>> Else, an english tutorial will be appreciated :)
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly, the contributor profile for Ta Wiki is quite similar to ml
>>>> wiki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0
>>>>
>>>> Ravi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see the source code of that template.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Shiju,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good to know. I agree that until each wiki should become self-reliant
>>>>>> without the need to refer en wiki for everything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ravi
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Could the count be explained? May be because of good participation
>>>>>>>> in talk pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped projecting the
>>>>>>> depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like *
>>>>>>> edits/article*, *bytes per article*, *number of active users*, and so
>>>>>>> on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    - As you have mentioned above, depth shows the overall
>>>>>>>    collaboration. Edits in articles, talkpages, portal pages, templates,
>>>>>>>    images, and so on helped in increasing the article count.
>>>>>>>    - We are away from increasing the article count by creating
>>>>>>>    one-liners. Remove all junk one-liners and big articles with english only
>>>>>>>    content from your wiki. Depth will surely increase.
>>>>>>>    - Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of
>>>>>>>    active and dedicated users. We have at least *40 users* with
>>>>>>>    number of edita more than 1000.
>>>>>>>    http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0Atleast 10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All these have contributed depth of the wiki.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  We are not allowing anyone to  create one-liners just for the sake of
>>>>>>> increasing the article count. At least fundmental information is required in
>>>>>>> each and every article that is created in Malayalam Wikipedia. Because of
>>>>>>> that *our readers will not run to English wikipedia* to get the
>>>>>>> fundamental information about a topic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are trying to attract readers to wiki. The CD project/book
>>>>>>> project/wikiacademies/wiki meetups are all part of the public outreach
>>>>>>> programs. We have many users *who only reads ml wikipedia*. *After
>>>>>>> all if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We give top  priority to the usability part of the wiki. Because of
>>>>>>> that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia *that are not
>>>>>>> available in any other language wikipedia*. An example is *pretty url
>>>>>>> *itself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are trying to reach the other language wikipedians to get to know
>>>>>>> about their best practices. We feel no shy in copying their best practices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are more things. I will write about that some time later.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As in Tamil Wikipedia, *we also have problem in getting local
>>>>>>> Wikipedians to edit the wiki*. I will write about that later.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shiju
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ramesh,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's quite a good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also
>>>>>>>> quite elaborate. well done.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am also curious about the depth of Malayalam Wiki. Could the count
>>>>>>>> be explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages,
>>>>>>>> collaborative articles, regular copy edits??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ravi
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G <rameshng at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ravi
>>>>>>>>> An apprx figures
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> # The total attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which
>>>>>>>>> includes newcomers around 60%
>>>>>>>>> # Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the
>>>>>>>>> attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> regards
>>>>>>>>> Rameshng
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > The number of registrants found at http://bit.ly/c9voKu is
>>>>>>>>> interesting.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Would like to know what percentage of them are regular
>>>>>>>>> contributors in
>>>>>>>>> > ml.wiki projects.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active
>>>>>>>>> contributors are
>>>>>>>>> > present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > How is the situation for other Indic Wikis?
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like
>>>>>>>>> > http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . Especially, any lesson to learn on
>>>>>>>>> outreach and
>>>>>>>>> > increasing contributor activity.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Ravi
>>>>>>>>> >
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