+1. Yes, milestones are nice things to celebrate, but not something to start
regarding as a metric.
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
> Although page depth was not really connected with the current
> trend, Personally, I think page depth is *no longer a reliable* metric
> for comparison, here is why I think so.
>
> Assamese Wikipedia ( 312 articles) : page depth is 3
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
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> Technically 1 million edits is a cute milestone ( congrats to ml wiki)
+1 Congratulations! :)
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Although page depth was not really connected with the current
trend, Personally, I think page depth is *no longer a reliable* metric for
comparison, here is why I think so.
Assamese Wikipedia ( 312 articles) : page depth is 339 .
Sindi ( 355 articles): 381
Compare this with
Bengali ( 22,062 arti
>
> We have users in Tamil Wikipedia who bulk upload 100s of complete articles
> they wrote offline with just one edit per article.
>
That happens in all the wikipedias which has an active community. That might
also be possible with the the Google translation project.
In general, quality of a wik
Its not just about stubs.
We have users in Tamil Wikipedia who bulk upload 100s of complete articles
they wrote offline with just one edit per article. One great article can be
uploaded in one click and one mediocre article can have 100s of edits.
According to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List
What probably Arjuna meant was that, some of Wikipedias are more welcoming
to the creation of stub articles. I am not saying that Malayalam
Wikipedia doesn't though...
-Tinu Cherian
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:
> *Number of edits per article measure* may not be meaningful c
>
> *Number of edits per article measure* may not be meaningful comparison,
> when comparing wikipedias, as each language wikipedia follows its own
> policies with regard to stub articles.
>
Great.
Arjuna, Kindly share the policy of Telugu Wikipedia with regard to stub
articles. I am sure other
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2011/1/25 Shiju Alex
> Dear All,
>
> I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh
> (1 million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia is
> the *first Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*.
>
> Congratulations to the vibrant Mala
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