In fact, bot edits in Indian Wikis is also an interesting metric. For example, see the below table to understand share of the *percentage of bot edits* across some major Indian wikis.
- Bengali - 76 - Bishnupriya Manipuri - 97 - Gujarati - 37 - Hindi - 50 - Kannada - 59 - Malayalam - 42 - Marathi - 62 - Sanskrit - 85 - Tamil - 51 - Telugu - 51 - Urdu - 59 I know that for some Indian language wikipedians the only relevant metric is *number of articles*. But of course, not for the Malayalam wikipedians. We saw much value in all the metric that is published at http://stats.wikimedia.org/. I know many others are also finding value to it, that is why it is published every month. Shiju Alex On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:33 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Praveen, > > You've shown how much insight we can glean by provoking Malayalam Wiki > friends. ;) > We all got a great inside view of the different aspects of participation in > one of the finest Indian wikis. > > > > So if anybody believes that Malayalam Wikipedia is irrelevant, I welcome > them to there to check its irrelevancy and contribute their home > > wikii until it become irrelevant like Malayalam Wikipedia. :) > > I don't think anyone doubted that. > > > - 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:* praveenp <me.prav...@gmail.com> > > *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. < > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > *Sent:* Thu, January 27, 2011 5:58:25 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 > Lakh/1 million edits milestone > > On Thursday 27 January 2011 10:31 AM, Ravishankar wrote: > > Its not just about stubs. > > We have users in Tamil Wikipedia who bulk upload 100s of complete articles > they wrote offline with just one edit per article. One great article can be > uploaded in one click and one mediocre article can have 100s of edits. > > According to > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias > > *"Depths above 300 for > Wikipedias<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Notes>below 100 > 000 articles have been automatically dismissed as irrelevant." > * > When we focus on number of articles, some end up creating useless stubs. > The same should not happen when we focus on edit counts. > > Ravi > > This may be nothing related to original thread. Sorry. Malayalam wikipedia > has its strength and its weakness. > > Depth is just an indicator of collaborative character of editors. For a > massive multiauthor collaboration site, some measurement mechanism is better > than none. But I don't think large number of edits are bad. If anyone thinks > that articel by single edit is better than multi edited article, I must say > thats not wiki style :( . > > But there is an another issue, number of bot edits. Many ml users, mainly > students, like to play with bots. Malayalam Wikipedia has never discouraged > anyone for testing their bots (if their edits are okay), because user > satisfaction is also a Wikipedia goal. We know that eventually they will > create a great bot :). Sometimes running a bot is not very simple. I had a > spell checker bot and I had to overview all of its edits, because of > Malayalam's ligatures and grammatical rules [or may be because bad logic > ;-)]. Even after running couple of months, it threw exceptions. So I'll say > bot edits also are a kind of manual inputs. Now there are many global bots, > most of them contributing interwiki. Bot conflict and bot-edit-war occurs > occasionally which we usually avoided by protecting the page or by noticing > the owner (Recent eg: See history of > വർഗ്ഗം:ഫലകങ്ങൾ<http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%82:%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BE&action=history>). > > > Malayalam Wikipedia is a small wiki, just over 16000 pages on main > namespace, so it is easy to exaggerate bot contribution. But actually it is > not, whenever a bot identified as doing unwanted edit it gets blocked. > > There are many wiki-projects which always engage users to do something on > wiki. So whenever a user find an error, even it is the minute one, he/she > corrects it. Nobody waits for large content to edit. Many portal (കവാടം) > pages are there, which helps users to find their favourite topic. > > In ml.wp - many pages in category namespace (there is an active > categorization wiki-project, which keeps articles finely categorized), large > number of templates and many help pages and project pages with good content > (I'm sure that many of these help pages and project pages are really useful > to new users to jump start wikipedia) are available. I think we are using > talk pages aslo very well. > > It is clear from depth formula, that all these factors can be incremental > to "depth". So if anybody believes that Malayalam Wikipedia is irrelevant, I > welcome them to there to check its irrelevancy and contribute their home > wikii until it become irrelevant like Malayalam Wikipedia. :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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