> > Hindi, sadly is scaring them away.
Srikanth, do you have any specific example/experience that made you to say so? Shiju On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage, > exposure and more. Each community, while running on a common backend, > must have a different frontend. Tamil is doing its best from what I've > seen to be different and get new editors. Hindi, sadly is scaring them > away. Kannada must ensure new editor retention. > > On 11/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild <jw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > >> I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India > >> who was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia > editing. > >> Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there > >> somewhere she could go to get some coaching to begin? She's never edited > >> before, but is fluent in English too and wants to increase the > educational > >> content. > >> > > > > The answer is above. I think communities must use front page much more > > effectively. There are many communities which don't update front > > page regularly, still keep it similar to English Wikipedia, wasting(IMO) > > some space. Instead, they could redesign front page to allocate > significant > > space for attracting newbies. > > > > -- > > Regards > > Srikanth.L > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > Regards, > Srikanth Ramakrishnan. > Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore > > _______________________________________________ > 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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