[Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Shiju Alex]

>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>


I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember  seeing many of friends
using wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current
non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be
one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few
percentage of Indian readers.

Shiju





On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
>  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
> typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
> their browsers.
>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
> +855 975 529 803
> Skype: anirudhsbh
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Ravi.
>>
>> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I
>> agree
>> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
>> to
>> >> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
>> readership
>> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
>> support
>> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
>> >> Theo's
>> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
>> measured.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
>> resolved -
>> >> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
>> are
>> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
>> language
>> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
>> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
>> >> out
>> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>>  If
>> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
>> see
>> >> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
>> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>> >> determining what might work best?)
>> >>
>> >> What say?
>> >>
>> >> hisham
>> >>
>> >
>> > +1.
>> >
>> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
>> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
>> not
>> > be neglected !
>> >
>> > Ravi
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>
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