Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

[Ravishankar]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Holalkere Laxmivenkatesh <
hrl.venkat...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Creating 300 articles in 3 weeks... such news should make us
> to introspect ; surely should not be encouraged !
>

Correction: 300 articles in 20 hours :)

As Bala said, the articles were mainly based on easily verifiable statistics
and well monitored by the community so the quality of the articles were not
compromised.

What is noteworthy is not just the number but the fact that people find
contributing to Wikipedia worthy enough so they rally their relatives and
colleagues to help. This is not an easy feat. But this is one of the best
bets to recruit new editors to growing Wikipedias.

Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

[Yuvi Panda]

The chrome extension has been updated to support Google Instant :) Please
test and report bugs!

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:

> Tecoholic (aka ArunMozhi http://www.arunmozhi.in/) has ported the
> extension to firefox!
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yenwikipedia/
>
> :)
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yuvi,
>> Personally yes. I would like to have links to Hindi, Marathi and Tamil
>> simultaneously.
>> I am crazy. :)
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth R.
>> P.S: Srikanth L and I are the original Srikanth's >.. : P
>>
>> On 14 April 2011 19:41, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one
>>> language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Yuvi,
 Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time?
 --Regards,
 Srikanth R.

 On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna wrote:

> I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to
> include multilingual results as a link in regular searches.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <
> srik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !!
>>
>> Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead
>> of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help
>> Indic / regional language Wikipedia's
>>
>> Regards
>> Srikanth.L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman <
>> sundarbe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully
>>> Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in
>>> their search results themselves.
>>>
>>> - 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 Lecture
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda * wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Yuvi Panda 
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google
>>> (With a Chrome Extension)
>>> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM
>>>
>>>
>>> Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to
>>> 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi
>>> for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda 
>>> http://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add
>>> links
>>> > to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks
>>> into
>>> > Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to
>>> which a
>>> > tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side.
>>> > Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1
>>> >
>>> > You can test the extension by installing it from here:
>>> >
>>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/
>>> >
>>> > It is open source, and the code is available here:
>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues
>>> here
>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/.
>>> >
>>> > Known issues:
>>> > 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off)
>>> > 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't
>>> have
>>> > /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P)
>>> > 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have
>>> to
>>> > build an options dialog to support other languages)
>>> > 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly
>>> appreciated :) )
>>> >
>>> > I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue -
>>> > discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing.
>>> >
>>> > Feedback welcome :)
>>> >
>>> > P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay
>>> tuned :)
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Yuvi Panda T
>>> > http://yuvi.in/blog
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Lakshmivenkatesh, while I understand your apprehensions, we must
understand, that this has catalysed the creation of articles and their
further improvement.
If you really  are worried then read the below paragraph:
 " In January 2010, at the Monthly Bangalore meetup, there were two
representatives of Google present  who had come to showcase (read:
advertise) their new Translator Toolkit. They had paid several people
to use their product, translate certain articles to Hindi, and then
publicised it. None of this involved any community discussion, and
some articles were deleted instantly. While outsiders praised Google's
action as spreading knowledge, Google, blamed the administration on
the Hindi Wikipedia for inefficiency and beaurocratic interference."
This is what worries me. Google is still out there. Wikipedia is their
translation Guinea Pig and they said they were working in further
Wikimedia integration for other languages, Tamil included.
I commend the incredible acheivements by this editor.
Do you have Barnstars on Tamil Wikipedia like we have on English?? Do
reward this  user with several.  : )
-- Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Sent from my Android phone, please excuse spelling, and typing errors.


On Thursday, 28 April 2011, Bala Jeyaraman  wrote:
> I would like to add, that the user in question, asked the community's views 
> (well in advance), that if it was ok to undertake such an effort. And there 
> were other editors (including me), constantly checking, proofing, 
> recategorising and maintaining the articles created. This was no slapdash 
> effort. As the articles concerned were start class, we were able to monitor 
> them easily. At least seven persons were involved in this effort - this was 
> no slap dash mass article creation spree.
>
> It was a community effort and the tamil wiki community (which is very 
> conservative when it comes to article size and bulk creation) was unanimously 
> behind this effort. I dont know whether we will be able to duplicate it 
> again, but we will certainly be encouraging such cooperative work in the 
> future.
>
> -
> Bala
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Holalkere Laxmivenkatesh 
>  wrote:
>
> Creating 300 articles in 3 weeks... such news should make us to introspect ; 
> surely should not be encouraged !
> Once the news used be like this. " Dr. Modi performed many eye operations 
> ..." In my opinion although Dr. Modi was a great eye surgeon, and a great 
> soul-still as for the Eye Operations are concerned he might have not made 
> justice to his profession. This job is not like crushing sugar cane crop !
>
>
> The above views are mine. I don't care whether any one agrees or not 
> !-Venkatesh
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ravishankar  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks.
>
> Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who created 300 articles 
> organically in 20 hours.
>
> P.M.Puniyameen ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:P.M.Puniyameen ) from 
> Srilanka is a retired academician, prolific writer and independent 
> journalist. He started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia from November 2010. In 
> the short span of 5 months he has added 2000+ articles.
>
> He set himself a target creating 200 articles on 20th April but ended up 
> creating 300 articles in 20 hours. He was helped by his wife, daughter and 
> two colleagues in typing the articles which were mainly info based articles 
> on cricketers, small magazines. Earlier, he even created articles from his 
> bed when he was in a medical rest.
>
> Thought of sharing this story as it is inspiring to see people working with 
> so much dedication, mobilising people and resources  for Wikipedia.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ravi
>
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