[Wikimediaindia-l] Quantity Vs Quality: Hindi Wikipedia story

[mayur]

Here are the list of articles being created in last one month, you can
yourself check the quality of articles being created in hindi wiki.Due to
our tough scrutiny of abuse filters it become very difficult to created
vandalized articles in hindi wiipedia.If anybody really want to measure
quality v/s Quantity you can check no of articles created for last one month
or 2 months and also check their quality, you can easily observe that hindi
wiki is at very safe stage.Creating stub articles was a old tradition in
many wiki, Hindi wiki also adopted this at a very intial stage but as many
articles were useless and having wrong information thats why We decided to
delete them 3 month ago and also banned creation of very short vandalized
article.About 20000 articles has been deleted so far in last 3 months. Now
Quality of hindi wiki is improving very fast.We also hope some more good and
experienced users from other wiki communities  to join our community so as
to improve our project in more dimensions.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:09 PM, mayur <mayurdce at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that were stub articles, there is nothng wrong in creating stub
> articles by bot.As per Jimmy wales "*There’s nothing wrong with the idea
> of generating articles on populated places using bots. During one of his
> recent visits to India, Jimmy Wales mentioned how stub articles on the
> populated places in United States drove the growth of English Wikipedia.
> People hailing from these places would google their hometowns and arrive at
> Wikipedia. They would then start adding the missing details to these
> articles, becoming active contributors in the process."
>
> That why hindi wiki had such kind of stub articles, These article were
> generated just before utkarsh's analysis.Unfortunately they got some error
> due to some bot script error. We were already aware of that.Due to some
> factual errors these articles were deleted instantaneously. In last 4 month
> hindi wiki has deleted about 20,000 such kind of stub articles per our
> community discussion.We have also banned creation of very short article
> through a abuse filter which has not allowed about 2000 article creation for
> last 3 months.Giving a little information about any article is not bad as it
> contain information but as these recently  created **Village **article got
> some errors due to error in bot script and incorrect information that's why
> we deleted such type of articles immediately.Such kind of articles are
> present in many big wikis.I am happy after deleting 20,000 such kind of
> article hindi wiki still have 80,000 articles.We want our wiki growth in all
> dimensions not only in no of articles.
>
> Thank you and Regards
> Mayur
> Hindi Wikipedian
> *
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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