I think stub articles are not a bad idea if they
contain small information
bcoz atleast they contain some infomation, every article starts from a small
version, and also if anybody interested in reading a article in hindi he may
also come through it by en wiki inter links or Now a days many internet
users know to write in Devanagari because Google provide such kind of
facility.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
*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.
*
*
*
This might be true for English or European language wikipedias. But a
very example to follow for Indian wiki communities.
*A typical scenario.*
A normal Indian user search for an article about his home town in
internet (*by typing in his mother language script*), find an article
about it *in the respective language wikipedia*, click the edit button,
and then enhance it.
Highly improbable!!! To reach that stage, normal Indian users need to
cross lot of hurdles (awareness, willingness, fonts, rendering issues,
typing tools, and so on) . Very rarely, experienced wikipedians in the
respective language wikipedia may enhance it. The chances of even that is
very less in Indian Wikipedias. Just check this list itself. How many hyper
active English language wikipedians (Indians) edited in their respective
mother language wikipedia? If this is the case with experienced editors we
do not to mention about non-wiki users. From last year's
statistics<http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wik…
know the community strength of different Indian language wikipedias.
I would like to see few *bot created stub article* in any Indian
language Wikipedia, later *enhanced by IPs or new users*.* Increasing
the article count without building the community will be very bad for any
Indian Wikipedia*. If we have a big community to work on the rest of the
tasks after the article creation, then there is no harm in creating stub
articles using bots in a systematic way. I think Tamil wikipedians had done
this.
Utkarsh pointed to some others issues also in the blogpost.
Situation will change as more people become aware about the language
computing tools of the respective language. But at that time if they get a
wiki with articles highly disorganized, it is not going to help anyone.
Shiju
**
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:09 PM, mayur <mayurdce(a)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
*
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