> > Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? >
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl Please see the source code of that template. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Ravishankar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shiju, > > Good to know. I agree that until each wiki should become self-reliant > without the need to refer en wiki for everything. > > Pretty URL is cool. Is the script available? > > Thanks, > > Ravi > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Shiju Alex <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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=0<http://toolserver.org/%7Ejunaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0>Atleast >> 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 1 GB @ 10 USD per year web hosting. >>> >>> http://milkhost.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > 1 GB @ 10 USD per year web hosting. > > http://milkhost.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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