Wikipedia India stats
By Asha

Wikipedia, which is hugely popular in our country, has just released a report on its India community.  Some highlights are

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There are still a relatively low number of new users coming on board and a very tiny number of editors have edited more than 100 times. The former is self-evident as a problem because it means we need to do so much more to encourage new editors. The latter is worrying because it means we also need to do much more to encourage editor retention as well as editor motivation.

Malayalam and Tamil have the healthiest position among Indian communities. This is most probably because of the strong efforts at community building in both communities. Both Marathi and Bengali editor counts have increased across all parameters and that is very encouraging.

Given the huge speaker base of Hindi, it is not surprising that the Hindi Wikipedia continues to be on top with close to 87 lakh readers. Marathi also has a huge readership of 59 lakh. News coverage during WikiConference India has helped the Marathi Wikipedia to increase its readership. The near doubling of readership for Malayalam can probably be attributed to a recent update in Google search (canonical equivalence of atomic chillus and non-atomic chillus).

Despite being involved in Indic languages for quite a while now, I was personally amazed to know that there are 4.3 crore readers across all Indic languages in October. Even more amazingly, this number grew by 1.2 crores in October over September!

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