Hindi, sadly is scaring them away.
Srikanth, do you have any specific example/experience that made you to say
so?
Shiju
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage,
exposure
+1 to ViswaPrabha comment. Still I think It depends on the user.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Shiju for the mail.
I am trying to connect my Engineering College for organizing a Kannada
Wiki Academy, but a Kannada Wikimedian should
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India
who was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia editing.
Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there
Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage,
exposure and more. Each community, while running on a common backend,
must have a different frontend. Tamil is doing its best from what I've
seen to be different and get new editors. Hindi, sadly is scaring them
away. Kannada
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on
English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki
editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long
experience of reading wikipedia.
I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who
There isn't a lack of easyness. Some people are just scared away by so
called veteran editors.
On 10/12/2011, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote:
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on
English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic
Thanks Shiju for the mail.
I am trying to connect my Engineering College for organizing a Kannada Wiki
Academy, but a Kannada Wikimedian should volunteer, And after taking part
in the Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering
Collegehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_CollegeI
could see
Thanks for sending this, Shiju!
I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India who
was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia editing.
Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there
somewhere she could go to get some coaching to
Dear All,
As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few
Kannada wikipedians. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is
here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011
Kannada with more