Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-09 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
A bug sitting there for six years? My my, that is indeed bad news. All you BugZilla users out there, please help out ... On 09/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:01, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias

[Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Naveen Francis
User:ManojK had that in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Calicut_2011page too .. I think it should practice now . Thanks, naveenpf On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Good one Srikanth. This is exactly what we need now. Publicity. On 09/12/2011, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: User:ManojK had that in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Calicut_2011page too .. I think it should practice now . Thanks, naveenpf

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi On the same note... we are having 24 admins handling Wikimedia India Facebook page. We are updating with stats,news,discussions etc... Is there anyone in the list who has started editing bcoz of that ? -- naveenpf On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:01, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias could leverage the same. There is one thing that is required for other wikipedias to use the same. ShortURL[1] is required for sharing on twitter. The development is done(Thanks