Thank you for the interest, Srikanth. Hope someone's able to do something along
these lines (yes, "suitable" interwiki link surfaced in a banner will do)
during the hackathon. Topical cues can be taken up later, but we should pluck
the low-hanging fruits first. :)
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>________________________________
>From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>
>To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com>; Wikimedia India Community list
><wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors
>
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>
>
>
>On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 16:14, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>>
>>
>>[Apologies if a similar thing has been proposed earlier, I haven't been able
>>to read much of the recent discussions.]
>>
>>
>>I had a thought of channelling readers and editors of English Wikipedia (and
>>similar projects) to other Indian language wikis based on their IP addresses
>>and the topic being read. I've put down the proposal
>>at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Funneling_multilingual_readers_and_editors_based_on_geographic_and_topical_cues as
>> it is applicable elsewhere too than just India. Please read and discuss the
>>proposal. It'll be great if some of us can take the lead and do a pilot with
>>two or three Wikis. Personally, I'll not be able to commit much time these
>>days, but can support if somebody takes the lead. I suggest that we can put
>>up a project page (specific to Indian wikis)
>>at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12 if there is enough support
>
>
>Good idea Sundar. I have something in mind just to bring in interwiki links on
>sitenotice banner dynamically, so we can run a "dynamic" campaign. Geo-based
>banners would be good. Am not sure how easy would it be to include categories
>into the picture. But one more thing to work at India Hackathon. Thanks!
>
>
>-- Regards
>Srikanth.L
>
>
>
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