Dear Tinu and Ramesh, Here is the blog [1].
Thanks, Vishnu [1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics On 1 August 2013 13:36, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Ramesh. > > May be Vishnu ( A2K-CIS) can help. > > I wanted to feature a few Indic Wikipedians in the story, but apparently > the reporter was short of time for the deadline and had to go ahead with > the current form. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Ramesh N G <rames...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Tinu >> Thanks for sharing. Pretty impressive news coverage. >> Any idea where do we get the CIS report on this study. >> >> Regards >> User :rameshng >> >> Sent using Mobile. >> On 1 Aug 2013 10:59, "CherianTinu Abraham" <tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> *Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi >>> languages"* >>> >>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms >>> >>> *A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In >>> the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown >>> substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based >>> Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). >>> >>> Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write >>> and edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years >>> ago. According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi >>> have added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September >>> 2012 to April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this >>> period. Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had >>> another 10 lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views. >>> >>> While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100 >>> plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down. >>> "Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on >>> English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, >>> programme director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS. >>> >>> "In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has >>> grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet'," says >>> Vardhan. >>> >>> One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian >>> language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many >>> wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser >>> support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, >>> many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues. >>> >>> But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became >>> accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people >>> started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According to Vardhan, >>> communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online. >>> >>> "Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is >>> higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken." >>> >>> As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also >>> fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of >>> the Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam >>> kick-started the project. >>> >>> But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind >>> editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose >>> passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. * >>> >>> Regards >>> Tinu Cherian >>> pr...@wikimedia.in >>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news >>> >>> Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes >>> only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the >>> copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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