Hoi,
I have responded on my blog... If you ask me, it is great to publish this on
this list. It is imho even better to post this on a blog. An analysis can
always follow.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/languages-of-indian-subcontinent.html
On 12 March 2010 12:32, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I have compiled the statistical information of the Indian language
> Wikipedias for the month of *2010 February*. The report is available at
> https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&hl=en
>
> The data for this report is taken from the statistical analysis of all the
> WikiMedia wikis prepared and maintained by Erik Zachte (Website:
> http://infodisiac.com/). The statistics is available at
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm.
>
> The data for this report is collected on the last day of the month. That
> is, the statistical data for the month of 2010 January is collected at 2010
> January 31 23:59 PM GMT.
> The information of the following Indian language wikipedias is included in
> this report.
>
> - Assamese (http://as.wikipedia.org)
> - Bengali (http://bn.wikipedia.org)
> - Bhojpuri (http://bh.wikipedia.org)
> - Bishnupriya Manipuri (http://bpy.wikipedia.org)
> - Burmese (http://my.wikipedia.org)
> - Gujarathi (http://gu.wikipedia.org)
> - Hindi (http://hi.wikipedia.org)
> - Kannada (http://kn.wikipedia.org)
> - Kashmiri (http://ks.wikipedia.org)
> - Malayalam (http://ml.wikipedia.org)
> - Marathi (http://mr.wikipedia.org)
> - Nepali (http://ne.wikipedia.org)
> - Nepal Bhasha/Newari (http://new.wikipedia.org)
> - Odia (Oriya) (http://or.wikipedia.org)
> - Pali (http://pi.wikipedia.org)
> - Punjabi (http://pa.wikipedia.org)
> - Sanskrit (http://sa.wikipedia.org)
> - Sindhi (http://sd.wikipedia.org)
> - Sinhala (http://si.wikipedia.org)
> - Tamil (http://ta.wikipedia.org)
> - Telugu (http://te.wikipedia.org)
> - Urdu (http://ur.wikipedia.org)
>
>
> I know that some of the above languages are not spoken in present day
> India. Even though my focus is on Indian language wikipedias, I have
> included all the languages from Indian Sub continent. One of the main reason
> is that all the above languages belong to the same language family (either
> Aryan or Dravidian).
>
>
> I have divided the report into two different sections.
>
> 1. Statistical report of Wikipedias
> 2. Localization status of Mediawiki software
>
>
> Following are the different topics covered under each section.
>
> Wikipedia Statistics
> *Article statistics*
>
> - Number of Articles
> - Number of Edits
> - Break up of edits
> - Edits per article
> - Average size of an article (bytes)
> - Database size (in Mega Bytes)
> - Percentage of articles with size greater than 500 bytes
> - Percentage of articles with size greater than 2000 bytes (2
> kilobytes)
>
> *User Statistics*
>
> - Number of active wikipedians
> - Page views per month (All figures in Lakhs/month)
> - MediaWiki Localization Statistics
>
> Media Wiki Localization status (percentage)
>
>
> This month onwards I am dividing the languages into 3 groups based on the
> number of articles. Following are the groups and the languages that fall
> under each group.
>
> Group 1 (More than 10,000 articles)
>
> - Nepal Bhasha/Newari
> - Hindi
> - Telugu
> - Marathi
> - Bishnupriya Manipuri
> - Tamil
> - Bengali
> - Gujarathi
> - Urdu
> - Malayalam
>
> Group 2 (More than 1,000 articles)
>
> - Kannada
> - Sanskrit
> - Nepali
> - Burmese
> - Sinhala
> - Pali
> - Bhojpuri
> - Punjabi
>
> Group 3 (Less than 1,000 articles)
>
> - Odia (Oriya)
> - Kashmiri
> - Sindhi
> - Assamese
>
>
> See the PDF at
> https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4hBi4hJ-5mnZmMxYzFhNTYtZWU5Yy00ZTAwLTliZDItMWJiZGI5MGUxZGQ2&hl=enfor
> details. You can make your own analysis and conclusions after going
> through each topic in the PDF. I may publish my analysis in my blog after
> some time. Last month's analysis is available here
> http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/02/indian-language-wikipedias-statistics.html
>
>
> The question for this month is :
>
> Question for 2010 February: *Which is the first Indian language Wikipedia
> that has crossed 10,000 articles milestone?*
>
> Support your answer with sufficient references.
>
> Please reply to this mail so that we will have fruitful discussion
> regrading this topic.
>
> I hope this initiative will improve the interaction between different
> Indian Language Wikipedias and wikipedians. We (Malayalam Wikipedians -
> http://ml.wikipedia.org) are maintaining a similar comparison study of the
> major Indian Language wikipedias for the past two years. This study has
> helped us to understand the status of Malayalam Wikipedia as compared to
> other Indian Language Wikipedias. I hope this report will help other Indian
> language wikipedias also.
>
> Let me know in case there are any issues.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Shiju Alex
>
>
>
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