Dear Mahitgar and other Indian Wikipedians, I am doing analysis to help support the Wikimedia strategic planning task force on Indian language Wikipedias. I am very interested in learning more about examples of successful online communities in Indian languages. Some people have stated that the slow growth of an Indian language wikipedias is due to people in the India's preference for using English while online. However, the existence of these online communities in Marathi that Mahitgar mentions imply that this is not the case. It would be great if someone could help me by providing some examples of these online communities. I would love to know what type of content to their users create, the number of users, and any information about their growth rate. The more understanding we have of what makes these communities successful the better we can work to help build strong Indian language wikipedias Anyone who could point me in the right direction would be much thanked. I would do some of the research myself, but unfortunately, I do not speak any Indian languages. Thanks so much for everybody's help and participation in the strategic planning process. You can contact me directly at sarah.sa...@bridgespan.org Best, Sarah
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:09:35 +0530 (IST) From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahit...@yahoo.co.in> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to ? To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <740770.78067...@web94808.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If I analyse? Marathi language unicode Websites other than Marathi Wikipedia , most of them(99%)? are drupal(cms)? based and many of them are quite popular community discussion sites. Many of the readers coming from such sites usualy complaint saying that they find our(mediawiki)? brackets (over all? wiki mark up confusing). What kind of help we can offer at wikis to new comers coming from drupal cms? any other indian languages has got similler experiences? ? -mahitgar --- On Sat, 26/9/09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote: From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> Subject: [MarathiOpenSource] Announcement: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009 To: "Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List" <plug-m...@plug.org.in>, "cslug" <cs...@yahoogroups.com>, "marathiopensource" <marathiopensou...@yahoogroups.com>, mr-w...@yahoogroups.com, "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <il...@lists.linux-delhi.org>, "Indian Linux group ," <indlinux-gr...@lists.sourceforge.net>, "ilug-goa" <ilug-...@yahoogroups.com> Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2009, 12:15 AM ? Dear all, This is a formal announcement of Drupal Sprint India event happening on October 30-31 2009. An event for those who love Drupal, geeks and non-geeks alike. Announcing Drupal Sprint India, a gathering of Drupal enthusiast from all over India, to contribute to Drupal development. The event is organized by Pune Linux Users Group with the support of Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan as Venue Sponsors. Drupal is probably the best community driven CMS in open source. Community driven softwares need community contributions for regular enhancements and this is your chance to contribute and gain karma. Drupal sprint India is a two day non-stop event where Drupal developers, documentation and translation guys will get together to enhance Drupal. We will have code sprints, documentation sprints as well as translation sprints. Join coding sprints to fix patches for upcoming Drupal 7 release or to port modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or to develop new modules from scratch. Join Documentation sprint to document Drupal. Documentation sprint will be headed by Addison Berry, Drupal documentation project lead. 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This has some major implications. It was found that people in languages where the localisations of the software of the Usability Initiative did not stick with the "beta test". This presented a problem; is this because of the lack of localisation or is it because of cultural differences with regard to usability. We can now ask people to help us iwith the localisation and learn quickly where the problem is. We know that information for several scripts is missing in the advanced toolbox. Telugu was added recently but Devangari, Kanada, Tamil and Sinhala is still missing. We can now really concentrate our standard localisation in one place. This is very much wanted because it will improve our performance and it will ensure better maintenance of our MediaWiki system messages. It is for all these reasons that we ask you to got to translatewiki.net for your localisations. It would be appreciated when all the messages are compared with what has been done locally. When local messages are the same as in translatewiki.net, they will eventually be removed by the Wikimedida developers. When they are not the same, there will be local messages that have missing parameters, these messages are best removed locally. Other messages indicate things that are specific to a project these messages are the ones that have to remain locally. With the LocalisationUpdate being live on all our wikis, we hope and expect that the quality of the localisations will improve. This will make it easier for people to understand what is asked from them by our software and this will grow our number of readers and editors. We need you to help us realise our wish to bring information to everyone. Localisation is an important part of making this possible. Thanks, GerardM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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