100 Articles Limit

Last week Ruwan asked in the LK_LUG mailing lists for support. We seem to get more users this week. I’ve no idea whether they are replying to the request, but anyway we’ve reached 125 pages.

It’s mostly Ruwan’s work. Nice work Ruwan keep it up!

Sinhala and IT

Sinhala Wikipedia Statistics

We have 86 pages as per the count in the morning Sri Lanka time.
The most active contributor these days is Ruwan [http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ruwan].
Sadly we have very few contributors so far.

Today’s Situation: Do we need Sinhala?

The main difficulty with “Sinhala and IT” is not the technology; but the people themselves. Most of the people I asked for support gave comments like these:

• There is no need to have an Encyclopedia in Sinhala
• It is much easier to deal with knowledge in English than in Sinhala

...and a wonderful:

• I won’t do it because you are asking it

Well, personally I agree with both the first two points. There is actually no need to have IT in Sinhala. To tell you the truth my interest in this area is because it is a good academic challenge to work with IT in Sinhala.

Open for comments...

Sinhala Encyclopedia

Story so far...

2006-April-21 1:07 PM
Got an invitation from Sasakthi [http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sasakthi] to join the Sinhala Wikipedia project

2006-April-23, 09:33 AM
Created the account in Sinhala Wikipedia

11:33, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Our users seem to need the Portal namespace too. I asked the user Kylu of the English Wikipedia who first welcomed me to the world of Wikipedia to help me out. She was no admin then but took a leading role in helping us get the namespace setup.

2006-July-11 17:15:21 UTC
We now have the Portal namespace in Sinhala Wikipedia.