As a small editor on kn-wp, I find that the people using the kn-wp lack
basic rules of editing wikipedia since I often see that :-
- Only the same editors edit there. Newbies are a lot less.
- The newbies are in a large number - IP addresses only and they never
want to create their own ac
I think there are 3 issues that this newsarticle raises.
The first is the is the desperate urgency for community building.
Community building is a combination of:
- increased community communication (in increasing order of importance:
events, mailing lists, talk pages, meet-ups and village
1. There should be more articles like this in non-English newspapers.
I found a few in the http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news page, but
there should be much more.
2. Here's one thing that can make the Kannada Wikipedia popular: It
should have more content that would be useful for children prepar
As a person working in the relevant field, we would welcome Shiju's
comments on the article, its facts, proposed steps by the editors mentioned
and what Kannada Wikipedia needs for revival.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012
