[Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

[Naveen Francis]

User:ManojK had that in

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Calicut_2011page
too ..
I think it should practice now .

Thanks,
naveenpf

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>>
>>> Very cool. :)
>>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>>> Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for
>>> what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this
>>> (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social
>>> sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even
>>> possibly editing would be fantastic to have.
>>>
>>
>> For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the
>> hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about
>> checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need
>> more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect,
>> but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice
>> campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach
>> which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged
>> facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more
>> to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors.
>>
>> On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not
>> even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ.
>>
>
> I saw this used on  Wiki Conference India page <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011>earlier  If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the
> conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give
> idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest.
>
>
> Cheers
> Arjuna Rao Chavala
>
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