Thanks Shiju. Should see if we can make sense from the malayalam page. Else, an english tutorial will be appreciated :)
Interestingly, the contributor profile for Ta Wiki is quite similar to ml wiki http://toolserver.org/~junaid/tools/editcount.php?wproject=wiki&wlan=ml&show=users&max=50&offset=0 Ravi On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Shiju Alex <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 . 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