Sinhala Encyclopedia: 2006

Friday, December 22, 2006

Christmas wikibreak

Ok, it is time to take a break and enjoy life... :-D

We have 147 articles (as on 2006-12-22). Very slow! I know....

Well..... Let’s hope to reach 500 articles in 2007.
Not a hard target isn’t it?

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

We are getting spam...

WOW!!!
Now we are getting some spam too. :-D
Nice to see at least somebody is interested in our encyclopedia.

No changes of the article count. We are still waiting for contributors. However it seems we are about to enter in to another season of high activity. We’ll see how it turns out.

Monday, November 27, 2006

I'm back...

Ruwan is back in business. So I can't just sit and wait; have to do something. He got me cornered. :-D

So the article count says 143 (as on 2006 November 27). Not bad for an encyclopedia with very limited resources. However we seriously need some contributors. Any volunteers???

Latest addition to note is the MediaWiki:Edittools page. It is still under construction, but better than having nothing. Why don’t you guys log in there and see how easy it is now to edit something. ;-)

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

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!

Sunday, July 16, 2006

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...