Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
+1. Yes, milestones are nice things to celebrate, but not something to start regarding as a metric. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians"

2011-01-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians", featuring Achal Prabhala http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-neighbourhood/article1128553.ece Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ht

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Technically 1 million edits is a cute milestone ( congrats to ml wiki) +1 Congratulations! :) anirudh > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > htt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Shiju Alex
> > 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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Ravishankar
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Shiju Alex
> > *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

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Gulfnews : Five questions to Sue Gardner

2011-01-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
[Press] : Gulfnews : Five questions to Sue Gardner http://gulfnews.com/business/media-marketing/connection-five-questions-to-sue-gardner-1.752627 *What is your expectation for the first office in India?* *Our office in India will be the first time the Wikimedia Foundation has opened an official p

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wiki Mysore Photowalk

2011-01-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Forwarding the announcement about Mysore photowalk on 30th January, 2011. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kiran Ravikumar Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:14 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wiki Mysore Photowalk Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary on 15th January 11. The Wiki enthu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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