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

Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 27 14:03:23 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:

> *Number of edits per article measure* may not be meaningful comparison,
>> when comparing wikipedias, as each language wikipedia follows its own
>> policies with regard to stub articles.
>>
>
>
> Great.
>
> Arjuna, Kindly share the policy of Telugu Wikipedia with regard to stub
> articles. I am sure other Indian language wikipedias will benefit from it.
>
> Stubs are not discouraged on Telugu wiki whether they are manually created
or  bot created. Since the measure is a ratio with number of articles in the
denominator, the value will be low, when a Wikipedia has lots of stub
articles. On Telugu wikipedia, the large number of  village articles created
in 2007-2008 with help of a bot skew this measure.

Cheers
Arjun
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