Monday, February 21, 2011

The Sinhala Community

The year 2011 is one of the busiest years in my life. A lot of things happen around me and I’m still a way busy with a lot of other work offline. While waiting for my office computer finish a remote job I thought of writing something here.

From what I see in the general behavior of the crowd in the Sinhala Wikipedia, we have some sort of a stable community at the moment. In early days it wasn’t like this. One or two people would start contributing and they can remain really active for about two (2) months and they will say goodbye to the project forever never to be heard again. Then the project will be dormant other than some vandalism and reverting. And so the cycle continued. There weren’t any chance for any real community discussion or such.

But now most of the active users have been there for more than six (6) months. There are also new members who will actively participate in community discussions. This is really a good sign. There have to be discussions for a community to survive. In my opinion even the flame wars count.

We have a lot of battles here and that sure makes ours a COMMUNITY.

As usual I’ll end the note with reference to statistics. On 21st February 21, 2011 the current article count is 4340.

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