[Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Although page depth was not really connected with the current
> trend,  Personally, I think page depth is *no longer a reliable* metric
> for comparison, here is why I think so.
>
> Assamese Wikipedia ( 312 articles) : page depth is 339 .
> Sindi ( 355 articles): 381
>
> Compare this with
> Bengali ( 22,062 articles) : 374
> Malayalam ( 16,414 articles) : 320
>
> It is self-explanatory...
>
> Technically 1 million edits is a cute milestone ( congrats to ml wiki) to
> take notice, but we cannot consider it as real metric for comparison among
> Wikipedias. There are language Wikipedias where Google translation/Machine
> translations or bot created articles are banned or controlled tightly. There
> are Wikipedias, where they have a free run. Please note that I am not saying
> taht they are either good or bad. There are Wikipedias where constant
> updation of articles happening, due a vibrant Wikicommunity. There are
> Wikipedians who like to work on the articles offline and then bring it live
> with a single edit.
>
> Having said that, it is advisable to do what each community feels best for
> their language Wikipedia. Of course, it is good to have an healthy
> competition :)
>
> But everybody, please do continue to report such interesting milestones and
> statistics. We all love that..
>

Agree with Tinu. Congratulations on the progress though. Indeed, it is good
to have healthy competition.

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