[Wikimediaindia-l] Question for Hindi Wikipedians

[BalaSundaraRaman]

A small fraction of users could be from other wiki projects whose accounts might 
be autocreated when a user who is signed in other wikis visits Hindi Wikipedia. 
Apart from that, I suspect that the biggest barrier could be not knowing how to 
type in Hindi as Gautam said.

It helps to post a help page link (with some English text for those without 
proper font support) prominently. Would like this study to be extended to other 
Indian language wikis to understand what works. May I request Frank Schulenberg 
to include Tamil wiki also if it's not too much additional work?

- Sundar
 "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



----- Original Message ----
> From: Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>
> To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 6:07:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question for Hindi Wikipedians
> 
> On 21 September 2010 17:56, theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  First Hindi is dominant in only half the country, its has 400-500  million
> > speaker in India, around half the total population.
> > The  South on the other hand has a mix of quiet a few popular languages and
> >  Hindi is looked upon as rather Superfluous
> 
> Sure and that would explain  the relatively lower sign up rates for
> Hindi (though it would be nice to see  sign up rates for other
> languages too) but doesn't quite explain 90% don't  edit post that.
> Would it be a fair assumption that creating an account on  Hindi
> Wikipedia is to say that the user is a native Hindi speaker/writer?  No
> other reason to create an account, no?
> 
> Thank  you.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Gautam
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