What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly
Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This
could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well.
According to my knowledge, World Classical Tamil Conference
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly
Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This
could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well.
According to
Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for these great suggestions Ravi.
*1. Active participation of Wikipedians having English Wikipedia experience.
*
Yes this is very important. Infact I already mentioned this in my second
point (attracting newbies) This is what I wrote:
We must
Hi Shiju,
Thanks for the excellent analysis on Indic Wikipedia communities.
When I consider community building, I think of 5 broad aspects:
1. Editor retention
2. Attracting newbies
3. Community communication
4. Community collaboration and
5. Community celebration
Based
Ravi, while the idea of having English editors help out on Indic wikis
sounds good, it isn't feasible. Most Indic editors distrust us English
editors and remain aloof from us. This has happened with me on the
Hindi wiki and with community members of Tamil.
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
HI Srikanth R,
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Ravi, while the idea of having English editors help out on Indic wikis
sounds good, it isn't feasible. Most Indic editors distrust us English
editors and remain aloof from us.
Indic
No, this is an important topic. Please discuss on-list being discreet to
avoid naming people or making accusations. We need to know the kind of
issues involved. Cooperation with English Wikipedia is one of the fastest
ways Indic language communities can grow their articles and add quality.
Warm
Hi Shiju,
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear All,
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I have now completed sharing initial, introductory, exploratory
discussions with a host of community members from across Indic language
communities. I have shared these for 12 languages
Excellent Shiju, very well written. I hope the community will learn a
lot from your research and surveys and use them in a positive manner
to ensure that our local indic Wiki projects are in as good health as
English, French, Spanish, etc.
On 12/16/11, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear
Hi Shiju,
Thanks for sharing this. This is great. However the link for Nepali should
have been
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011
which might have been misspelled.
Thanks Shiju for the excellent work.
Cheers,
Rajesh Pandey
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent Shiju, very well written.
+1. Excellent analysis, very meticulous.
Particularly like the way you broke down community building into the
various sub-parts (below) and detailed what each entails,
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