[Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias
Hey, I have been noting declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias for the last few months. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat/article6255633.ece triggered to write this mail. This is my view on what's happening: 1. Most of the Indian Wikipedias have crossed 10 years. Many of the active and first generation contributors are burnt out, taking a leave or have left for good. If you are not creative, intentional and consistent in your efforts to replenish and nurture the next generation, you will see a declining trend. 2. Malayalam Wikipedia which once had 30 contributors who made 100+ edits a month registered only 10 such editors in May 2014. The last time they had activity this low was during May 2011. At the same time, their Wiki Source is registering a phenomenal growth. So, some resources could be split between projects too. This is a good reason to not start too many projects. Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource should be good enough unless you have a huge community. 3. Focus on offline projects like events, celebrations. While they are good, over doing can stress few active contributors. In my experience, every time after organizing some offline event, there is too much burn out and people return after months. 4. Things that plague all global Wikipedias - archaic editor, social media distractions, increasing use of tablets / smart phones. Future will be quite challenging :) Ravi ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias
A large amount goes to experiments...if one third of that amount used appreciating editors, we would have been a much better scenario. On 29-Jul-2014 7:09 pm, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have been noting declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias for the last few months. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat/article6255633.ece triggered to write this mail. This is my view on what's happening: 1. Most of the Indian Wikipedias have crossed 10 years. Many of the active and first generation contributors are burnt out, taking a leave or have left for good. If you are not creative, intentional and consistent in your efforts to replenish and nurture the next generation, you will see a declining trend. 2. Malayalam Wikipedia which once had 30 contributors who made 100+ edits a month registered only 10 such editors in May 2014. The last time they had activity this low was during May 2011. At the same time, their Wiki Source is registering a phenomenal growth. So, some resources could be split between projects too. This is a good reason to not start too many projects. Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource should be good enough unless you have a huge community. 3. Focus on offline projects like events, celebrations. While they are good, over doing can stress few active contributors. In my experience, every time after organizing some offline event, there is too much burn out and people return after months. 4. Things that plague all global Wikipedias - archaic editor, social media distractions, increasing use of tablets / smart phones. Future will be quite challenging :) I'm sure more experiments coming our way to make the future less challenging.. ;) Ravi ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias
Ansuman, Money can't solve all problems and it can bring new problems too :) Irrespective of availablilty or lack of funds, communities can really manage things themselves. If the communities don't plan and take initiatives, nothing can save the projects. Ravi ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias
In my suggestion/ recommendation we need to create vertical projects within wiki-projects. It could be Indian space Environment, local destinations in your city, etc. With this we should tap into colleges, schools and the senior editors can look into inspiring the new and junior editors. I am saying this in my personal capacity as a contributor to Wikipedia. -- Moksh Juneja Wikimedia India On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:52 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, rightly said..here money is not solving one but creating many... And only the community can save itself...not paid organizations... :) On 29-Jul-2014 10:00 pm, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Ansuman, Money can't solve all problems and it can bring new problems too :) Irrespective of availablilty or lack of funds, communities can really manage things themselves. If the communities don't plan and take initiatives, nothing can save the projects. Ravi ___ 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