I agree with Ravi. On 12/20/11, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to >> Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable readership >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to support >> this and also to help build Indic language communities. I also hear >> Theo's >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately measured. >> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are resolved - >> to explore this. The first step would be finalise what the objectives are >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic language >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?) The next stage >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure >> out >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.) If >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see >> what we can do about it. (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for >> determining what might work best?) >> >> What say? >> >> hisham >> > > +1. > > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not > be neglected ! > > Ravi >
-- 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
