Hot News About Wikipedia going to Setup Shop in India within 6months !

Great news about this Wikipedia going to setting up shop in India. "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, talked about his hopes for Wikipedia especially on the number of articles in Indian languages". India is one of the few countries with Wikipedia usage less than 15% ,which is much lower compared to other parts of the world. There are millions of people online in India but English is not their primary language. There is going to be several hundreds of people in 10 years from now who cannot read or write English but if we start contributing to the content today on local languages, we are looking at a very large audience in 5 years from now.

The big reason that Wikipedia is opening here is that the country is at a level of  'middle enthusiasm'. What this means is the number of Wikipedia pages in Indian languages isn't very high but isn't so low that hope is barely floating. Basically, Indian Wikipedia pages have a lot of potential to grow but need help to capitalize on that potential. 
Wikipedia's goals for India till 2015 include:

• Top 10 Indian languages have mature wikipedia pages (which means having more than 100 thousand substantial pages) and Wiktionary available enabling potential reach to 80% of the Indian population
• 100 million unique visitors monthly to Wikimedia projects
• More than 75% of schools in India have access to Wikipedia and Wiktionary either via the internet or offline (via CD-ROM etc).

So, According to this might be useful and welcoming great Wikipedia .



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