> > Could the count be explained? May be because of good participation in talk > pages, collaborative articles, regular copy edits >
Let me try to answer your query, eventhough we stopped projecting the depth parameter. Now we are concentrating more on parameters like *edits/article*, *bytes per article*, *number of active users*, and so on. - As you have mentioned above, depth shows the overall collaboration. Edits in articles, talkpages, portal pages, templates, images, and so on helped in increasing the article count. - We are away from increasing the article count by creating one-liners. Remove all junk one-liners and big articles with english only content from your wiki. Depth will surely increase. - Also the number edits are directly proportional to the number of active and dedicated users. We have at least *40 users* with number of edita more than 1000. http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0Atleast 10 of them have number of edits more than 10,000. All these have contributed depth of the wiki. We are not allowing anyone to create one-liners just for the sake of increasing the article count. At least fundmental information is required in each and every article that is created in Malayalam Wikipedia. Because of that *our readers will not run to English wikipedia* to get the fundamental information about a topic. We are trying to attract readers to wiki. The CD project/book project/wikiacademies/wiki meetups are all part of the public outreach programs. We have many users *who only reads ml wikipedia*. *After all if no one reads what we write, all our efforts are in vain.* We give top priority to the usability part of the wiki. Because of that, you can see many things in Malayalam Wikipedia *that are not available in any other language wikipedia*. An example is *pretty url *itself. We are trying to reach the other language wikipedians to get to know about their best practices. We feel no shy in copying their best practices. There are more things. I will write about that some time later. As in Tamil Wikipedia, *we also have problem in getting local Wikipedians to edit the wiki*. I will write about that later. Shiju On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ramesh, > > That's quite a good number. The arrangements for the meetup were also quite > elaborate. well done. > > I am also curious about the depth of Malayalam Wiki. Could the count be > explained? May be because of good participation in talk pages, collaborative > articles, regular copy edits?? > > Thanks, > > Ravi > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramesh N G <rames...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ravi >> An apprx figures >> >> # The total attendance was nearly 80 in the ml wiki meetup which >> includes newcomers around 60% >> # Morning Session was scheduled for regular wikipedians, where the >> attendance was around 20 to 30 regular ml wikians >> >> regards >> Rameshng >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > The number of registrants found at http://bit.ly/c9voKu is interesting. >> > >> > Would like to know what percentage of them are regular contributors in >> > ml.wiki projects. >> > >> > One challenge we face in Tamil Wiki is that not many active contributors >> are >> > present locally (within Tamilnadu) to conduct offline activities. >> > >> > How is the situation for other Indic Wikis? >> > >> > It will be interesting to see a case study from ml.wiki like >> > http://bit.ly/a3AaCl . Especially, any lesson to learn on outreach and >> > increasing contributor activity. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Ravi >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > > -- > 1 GB @ 10 USD per year web hosting. > > http://milkhost.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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