Congratulations to all Malayalam wikians. The facebook coordination effort is awsome.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Mandar Kulkarni <mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Dear All, > > Congratulations to all the editors in Malayalam Wikipedia for there > exceptional efforts to reach this number. We would like to some many more > milestones in future from you.... > > We know how it is difficult to increase the number in Indic language .... > :) > > With Regards, > > Mandar V. Kulkarni > > *From:* CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com> > *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. < > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 September 2011, 11:22 > *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 20,000 articles. > > Hi all, > > I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors > to announce it here .. with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their > behalf. :) > > I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia ( ml.wikipedia.org) > crossed 20,000 articles 2 days back. > Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by Abhishek > Jacob<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Abhishek_Jacob> > is > the 20,000 th article to be created. The 15,000th article was born almost a > year back in Nov 2010. > Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4 > b'crats. > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics > > There was a coordinated effort fby the Malayalam Wikipedians to organically > reach the 20,000 article milestone before Onam and the target was achieved 4 > days ahead of "Thiruvonam" > Apart from the discussion pages, the ML Wikipedians used social media > networking sites like Facebook groups ( > https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/ ) and twitter extensively to > coordinate and encourage this campaign. > This will be also an interesting case study of Wikipedia discussions > happening off-wiki and the use of networking sites to promote Wikipedia. > > Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind > this achievement. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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