[Wikimediaindia-l] The Odia Wikipedia is doing splendidly

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
While the Odia Wikipedia has less then 1000 articles, it is growing them and
it is growing its traffic. Given the activity for writing articles,
localising messages there is a great opportunity to grow its traffic by at
least half the numbers for a good number of months to come (it almost
doubled traffic in March).

I have written about this on my blog and, I have written unasked advice
about how I think a Wikipedia can be grown. This works not only for Odia but
for any Wikipedia. I have heard Shiju Alex well when he says that quality is
vitally important for Indic Wikipedias. They indeed do have to compete with
English. There is however nothing stopping you from writing great articles.
It does not make too much sense to want to concentrate on being complete in
any range of topics. When you are as small as the Odia Wikipedia is, you
want traffic and new editors. You want that desperately because when you
have it, you do not have to let go.
Thanks,
       GerardM

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/04/traffic-for-odia-wikipedia.html
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