On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting
a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can
serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can
Dear Wikimedians,
We have been able to secure travel funding from the organizers for
volunteers representing the Wikimedia community at OSSCamp Lucknow.
If you have some experience as a Wikimedia volunteer (and preferably
but not necessarily some Mediawiki background) and are interested in
Any stats on mobile broadband users, 3G and GPRS based internet users? This
may be a considerable number and will continue to increase.
Increase in views for Indic language Wikipedias can also be due to
non-resident citizens.
For languages like Bengali and Tamil present in more than one country,
http://ut7.in/2011/03/quantity-over-quality-the-sad-story-of-hindi-wikipedia/
___
Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
I think that were stub articles, there is nothng wrong in creating stub
articles by bot.As per Jimmy wales *There’s nothing wrong with the idea of
generating articles on populated places using bots. During one of his recent
visits to India, Jimmy Wales mentioned how stub articles on the populated
Here are the list of articles being created in last one month, you can
yourself check the quality of articles being created in hindi wiki.Due to
our tough scrutiny of abuse filters it become very difficult to created
vandalized articles in hindi wiipedia.If anybody really want to measure
quality
This is the link for article created in last one month -
http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:NewPageslimit=5000
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:33 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are the list of articles being created in last one month, you
*Jimmy Wales mentioned how stub articles on the populated places in United
States drove the growth of English Wikipedia. **People hailing from these
places would google their hometowns and arrive at Wikipedia.*
*
*This might be true for English or European language wikipedias. But a very
I think stub articles are not a bad idea if they contain small information
bcoz atleast they contain some infomation, every article starts from a small
version, and also if anybody interested in reading a article in hindi he may
also come through it by en wiki inter links or Now a days many
In Reply to your 2nd comment, We have done this after looking a detailed
analysis.You can yourself check
http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:AbuseLogwpSearchFilter=8such
avoided article.Most((95% or more) are vandalized articles.Thats why
we
*The Hindu : India is No.6 in donating to Wikipedia*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1551986.ece
(National story)
*Anyone who has used Wikipedia in the last few years would have noted a
banner at the top of the page appealing for donations by Wikipedia
co-founder Jimmy
11 matches
Mail list logo
