Trolls

For some reason there is an increase in the activity level in Sinhala Wikipedia these days. You would say it's good. But I have mixed feelings about it. Let's see what they are.

First of all on the good side now we are having some kind of a community there. People ask questions, others answer them and there are a lot of community activities going on. Since creation of the Sinhala Wikipedia, now only we are seeing the "කෝපි කඩේ" being utilized to the limits.

However on the bad side, most of these new ones seem to be "Trolls". How are we to deal with this situation?

In my opinion we are fighting a war against extinction, defending a already (half) dead language. How successful we will be in the fight against the minority of people who speak and understand the same language we are trying to defend?

I just hope people who do the hard work in our Wiki will have strength to ignore these trolls to continue their work.

Wish us luck!

:-)

Main Page - Part II

It's good to see that now we have a kind of a decent main page. However there are a few issue brought up.

It is brought to my notice that we need to have a "Get Sinhala" link in the main page. The main point raised here is that most of the users out there using XP and by default that operating system does not support Sinhala Unicode.

Sounds true to me...

But the previous link really does not look nice (in my opinion). [හරියට නිකං සීනි බෝල කඩේක බෝඩ් එකක් වාගෙ.]

I believe our main page should be either in the standards of the the English main page or ours should be better. If we can't do better we can at least stay at the standards of the English wiki.

We already have a text link in small text on each and every page including the main page that says read this if you can't read the text in the page. I didn't check the content on that page in many years though... :-)

Started a thread on කෝපි කඩේ also. Let's see what people have to suggest on this.

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