Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-27 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
N G >To: Wikimedia India Community list >Cc: Shiju Alex >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:23 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in >2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report > > >There is a much better repor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-27 Thread Ramesh N G
There is a much better report is here [1]and here [2]by Shiju. 1. http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2013/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-24 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/1/23 Vickram Crishna > On Jan 23, 2013 11:58 AM, "Arjuna Rao Chavala" > wrote: > > Rather than just the views, we need to look at the value felt by the > viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of > Wikipedia's mission. > --cut-- > That is a very challenging thought

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Interesting new metric, Arjun. Although, like you said, it's difficult to capture "the health and vitality" of a wiki in a single metric. Apart from external factors, I'd consider the following to have an influence on the path any wiki takes: 1. The seed community - typically small wikis start

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Jan 23, 2013 11:58 AM, "Arjuna Rao Chavala" wrote: Rather than just the views, we need to look at the value felt by the viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of Wikipedia's mission. In the absence of such a measure, we are looking at Page views as an outcome. As page

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/1/22 sankarshan > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > wrote: > > Both are key measures of activity for the outcome of Wikipedia, that is > > sharing the sum of human knowledge. If there are not many page views > > resulting from less number of readers, there will be less e

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Isn't Konkani in incubation too? FN -- FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 f...@goa-india.org Goa,1556's updated list of books available on and from Goa: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76671049/Goa1556-Catalogue-Books-from-Goa On 22 January 2013 16:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, 2013/1/22 Ravishankar > Arjuna, > > Your approach to have an idea of a community's activity by combining some > metrics is interesting. Also, to compare monthly averages instead of end of > year performance is also good. > Thanks. One clarification. I took the sum of the metrics for the enti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Ravishankar
Arjuna, Your approach to have an idea of a community's activity by combining some metrics is interesting. Also, to compare monthly averages instead of end of year performance is also good. *Increase in database size, number of most active contributors (making more than 100 edits a month) and page

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Sankarshan, 2013/1/22 sankarshan > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > wrote: > > [snip] > > > Please check out my blogpost on Indian Wikipedia languages status in 2012 > > and priorities > > > http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/01/22/analysis-of-indian-language-wikipedias-for-2

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: [snip] > Please check out my blogpost on Indian Wikipedia languages status in 2012 > and priorities > http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/01/22/analysis-of-indian-language-wikipedias-for-2012/ You write "As each one of us intuitively understa