As Kolhapuri had pointed out we need some postive discussion on this topic.
1> Indian language Wikipedias don't have enough
quality articles.
Indian language wikipedias have quality articles. I was just pointing to
some of the strategies adopted by some Indian wikies to increase the article
count.
Creating new articles *using bots*, or creating thousands and
thousands of *short
pages* as I have pointed out earlier, or copying content from english wiki
will eventualy lose the quality of the wiki. More over it will not motivate
a new user to become a wiki editor.
Another disadvantage us it will not attract the readers. If the wiki that we
are creating is not helping a user to find the required information and we
are still redirecting the user to english wiki then there is some thing
wrong.
Most of us need to read the below policies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_world_will_not_end_tomorrow
More Later
Regards
Shiju Alex
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shijualex
On 1/16/08, Kolhapuri <ppdixit+wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I think we should take whatever has been written in the two mails
> below positively.
> We don't need to pinpoint bad things about other language wikipedias at
> this stage while this group is just in formation stage.
>
1> Indian language Wikipedias don't have enough
quality articles.
> 2> We need more contributors to add more quality
articles.
> 3> To attract people to Wikipedias we need a valuable information to be
> already present in them.
> Now how do we do this?
> If you have some ideas that might work in Indian scenario please share
> them, especially if you have seen them working on your Wikipedia.
>
> e.g Shiju Alex can tell us how ml wikipedia has been able to achieve so
> many registered users?
>
> Regards,
> kolhapuri
>
mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:कोल्हापुरी
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 9:52 AM, Shiju Alex < shijualexonline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am from Malayalam Wikipedia. Since you have mentioned about Malyalam
> > wikipedia I would like to discuss some thing about the article count race
> > (Indian language wikipedias in particular).
> >
> >
> >
> > - Creating thosands of short pages like this
http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5…
> >
> > - Or orphaned pages like this
http://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5…
> >
> > - Or copying content from english wikipedia like this
> >
http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF
> >
> >
> > for the sake of increasing the number of articles in a wiki will not
> > increase the quality of a wikipedia or will not do any thing good for the
> > language also.
> >
> > If we would have adopted one of the above techiques we would have been
> > well ahead in the number of articles, since malayalam wikipedia has the
> > maximum number of registered users among all the indian language wikipedias
> > (More than *4400*).
> >
> > Please go through the various quality parameters listed in
> >
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias, for an understanding
> > about various indian langauage wikipedias.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Shiju Alex
> >
> >
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/15/08, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It is quite ununderstandable why Wikipedias like Kannada Language
> > > wikipedia and Gujrathi and Malyalam language wikipedia are so slow given
the
> > > fact that literacy levels and IT exposure in respective states is quite OK
> > > and they are immensely contributing to India centric articles on English
> > > wikipedia in big way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Important regional Languages Assamese ,Oriya , Punjabi wikipedias are
> > > lagging behind like nothing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Besides we need to look after now sort of extinct but important old
> > > languages wikipedias Sanskrit and Pali
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Main chalange is not how to increase their article or edit count
> > > but statisticaly self sustainable website service has to achieve menimum
> > > 3000 membership mark from respective languages so website keeps getting
> > > adequate content and how do we do that?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks and Regards
> > >
> > > Mahitgar
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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