Dear Nileshbhai,
First of all thank you very much for writing to me. It was in fact good
that you wrote this mail in English as even I can't read Gujarati from my
mobile.
You're absolutely right that we should share the topics and create articles
jointly. And for that reason only I have proposed creation of projects &
task forces. You can see that on chotaro.
Without any such formal setup also, we indeed are contributing jointly
wherever there is a user with knowledge of that subject. See the article
Ghanchi, which is jointly prepared by hamza and myself.
This has always not been possible because when a new comer starts to
contribute, he/she is very possessive about own writings. I have often
ended up in such cinflicts. The most recent one with Tekina you can see
everywhere, on chotaro, my and his talk pages, few talkpages of articles as
well as my mailbox. I am really proud of you that instead of being
possessive you approached me and are willing to include other users as
contributors.
Secondly, the issue is with our community size. There are not many regular
contributors today on wiki, everyone is working on the choosen/preferred
field of their interest.
Lastly, subject knowledge. We don't seem to have many users with interest
and/or knowledge of that field. That's what mate those articles lacking
more contributors.
Now, I don't care for the first reason. In wikipedia one should not be
thinking of own and self, its a common platform. Lets wish that our
community grows and we have more users with subject interest.
Till than, I can do one thing and promise you to work jointly on those
topics. To begin with, we can start with expanding some of the articles
with contents from english wikipedia. We can take the first para
(introduction) from en.wiki and translate them. And we should go one by one.
What do you suggest?
Kind Regards,
Dhaval
Sent from my HTC
On 17 Jan 2012 06:37, "nilesh bandhiya" <nileshbandhiya(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
We should write the email to wikipedia-gu into Gujarati, but due to my
mobile limitation, I cant write into Gujarati.
Well, I was thinking that we should share Gujarati Wikipedia Topics to
write articles. Suppose, a wikipedian who writes only for some particular
topic. For e.g. I am writing article about Computer related. And I also
edit it if it already exists. So we should be create community for
particular topics, the community member will edit related article.
What's your idea ?
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