Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is really amazing is that there are currently some 88,859 labels in Wikidata in the Urdu language :) Thanks, GerardM On 24 April 2014 19:19, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had ~27.5k articles in

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi Asaf, Ravi, All, Please see below replies received from Muzammil on queries raised by you. I did not notice that Muzammil is part of CIS. It looks like the Urdu content generation is a task carried out by CIS A2K program under wikimedia grant. Do you (WMF) have any specific budget for such

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hi Dhaval, CIS-A2K does not have any role in the creation of these articles. Muzammil remains one of our valuable ex-employees since March 15, 2014. Please see this announcement [1]. 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-April/011040.html Thanks, Subha On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Thank you Subhashish for the clarification, I saw Muzammil using @cis-india.org email address and hence considered him CIS employee. It seems that the organisational emails are provided to ex employees as legacy or it might be my mistake in considering that an organisational email account instead

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Sunil Abraham
Dear Dhaval, Thanks so much for your question. Access to CIS email id, admin privileges on our website content management system, subscription to staff newsletter, access to staff calendar etc. are only revoked when a ex-partner, ex-staffer, ex-intern and ex-volunteer makes a request or there is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposed Wiki Data Marathon program by CIS-A2K

2014-04-25 Thread Vishnu
Dear Ravi, Please see no. 9 on Meta here [1] where we discussed the potential benefits of Wikidata for Indic projects. In addition to this, I would like to give a broader context and background for this program, which will also help answer some of your concerns. As the community well knows

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark

2014-04-25 Thread Jayanta Nath
Till no one answer the basic question raised by Asaf, //Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had ~27.5k articles in February. Much bot-generated content// within a two month 27+ to 50+ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing