2024 නව වසර

අද, ශ්‍රී බුද්ධ වර්ෂ 2567 ක් වූ උඳුවප් මස අව විසේනිය නම් තිථිය ලත් සඳු දින. කිතු වසින් නම් 2024 ජනවාරි 1 වැනි දින. ඒ කියන්නේ 2023 වසර ගෙවිලා ඉවර වෙලා නව වසරක් ආරම්භ වුනා විතරයි.

ඉතින් මොකක් ද විශේෂත්ත්වය?

පසු ගිය අවුරුද්දේ හරි විශේෂ යමක් සිදු වුනා. ඒ තමයි:

සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව, ලිපි 20,000 සීමාව ඉක්මවා  යාම

ඇත්තටම අපේ වාගේ ව්‍යාපෘතියකට ඒක ඉතාම විශාල ජයග්‍රහණක්. අපේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය එක්ක හිටපු අය දන්නවා ඇති කොච්චරක් දෙනා මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය වසා දමන්න උත්සාහ කරනවා ද කියා. අපේ අය ක්‍රියාකාරීව ඉන්නේ කොපමණ කුඩා සංඛ්‍යාවක් වුනත්, බලන්න අපි යමක් කරලා තියෙනවා නේද?

පුළුවන් කමක් තියෙනවා නම් ඔබත් යම් දායකත්ත්වයක් ලබා දෙන්න.

ලැබුවා වූ 2024 නව වසර සුබ නව වසරක් වේවා!

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The article count as of 2024-01-01 6:00 AM: 20,088

 

සුබ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!

ඔබ සැමට අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!

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The article count as of 2021-04-14 9:00 AM: 17,030

Target: 15,263/15,000

I believe I can finally say we did reach the internal target we set. We passed the 15,000 mark some time ago. However somethings happened and the article count went down again. But as of today (2019-08-10) it seems the article count is now above the 15,000 mark and holding.

Target: 14,513/15,000

We passed the 14,500 mark in the article count. So there is less than 500 articles to reach the internal target.

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The article count as of 2018-03-01 10:00 AM: 14,513

Target: 14,494/15,000

We are slowly moving towards our internal target of 15,000 articles. There is also a lot of new accounts been created, though a very few of these are making any edits.

Article count as of 2018-02-25 1:00 PM: 14,494

Target: 15,000

Today I noted that we are very close to the article count 15,000. That number does not have any meaning in Wikipedia in the sense of lists. The next list for us is the 100,000+ articles. That would be a long time ahead in the future. But still 15,000 is something that we couldn't even think of when we started on this project.  Let's hope we can meet this internal target very soon.

Statistics (Article count):
Sinhala Wikipedia : 14,472 
Sinhala Wiktionary: 1,169

Sinhala Wikisource

Some time back (most likely බිඟුවා) has created a project for the Sinhala Wikisource. However the things have not progressed from the starting point. As many people pointed out most of the books available in the Sinhala Wikibooks are not actually things that should be there. Most of them belong to the Wikisource.

I started moving things to Sinhala Wikisource. There are a few problems left in the process.

1. We do not have a dedicated site for Sinhala Wikisource. We simply have to share the project they call "multilingual Wikisource" or  OldWikisource with others. This creates a lot of problems in practice than you can think of.
2.  A lot of contributors are not aware of the difference between Wikisource and Wikibooks. (To tell you the truth even I did not know correctly.)
3.  There are some license issues with the books that are available in the Sinhala Wikibooks. You can join the discussion here.

We need your support!

Speedy Deletion Backlog

Today did some cleaning on the speedy deletion backlog (CSD). There was a lot of junk added by the user Shriheeran. Still more to go but I believe I reduced the backlog by more than 100 today.

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Statistics:
The current article count (as of 2017-03-12): 13,192

New speady deletion backlog

I see that the user Shriheeran has created new articles directly to the speedy deletion backlog.

For example check this entry.

* The only contributor is the above user.
* The only content is: {{delete}}

What is the point in creating this page?

May be an error in a script? But still that adds unnecessary load to admins on the project.

I am kind of clueless on what to do regarding this. One thing for sure. I will oppose this user on his stewardship poll if I notice it.

:-)

Puppets

It seems we have a quite a good community now in the project. However I also see from patterns of their interaction with others that most of them are sock puppets. This is actually something frustrating because we have to wake up people who are not actually sleeping. But we do not have a choice. We have to act along their act and tell them the same things we told the puppet masters over and over again.

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Statistics:
Current article count (as of 2017-01-14): 13,162.

Speady Deletion backlog

Today I managed to deal completely with the speedy deletion backlog. It really feels great. I'm still hoping for a good active community on our project.

Current article count: 11120

Happy New Year!

Since there is a lot of activity going on again in Sinhala Wikipedia, I thought of start writing on this blog once again. So to start with I wish all the reader a Happy New Year!

Current article count: 12,043

Main page banner

We are having some discussions about how main page is displayed in different browsers. I've included some screen shots of the main page banner from three different browsers.

Chrome 19.0.1084.46

IE 8.0.6001.18702

Firefox 3.6.28

I don't think I like these differences. :-)

Story so far..

When I was a kid, I could speak only Sinhala.But there was nothing I couldn't do with it. When I moved to Colombo only I found out there is nothing you can do if you don't know English. So I had to learn English because I wanted to survive. Those days I thought one day I would fight back and I did try. But I know today Sinhala is not a practical language. No matter what we argue in the end you have to know English if you want to live. At least in Sri Lanka.

My term as an admin in Sinhala Wikipedia was not planned. When me and Sasakthi started on the project someone had to take up the burden. Those days the interface translation was limited to admins. So I took up the challenge. Later Sas got busy and I also dropped down to just cleaning up vandalization and spam. Time after time one person would pick up an interest in Sinhala Wikipedia and do something. But there never was any real community. When these guys got fed up they simply left the project without even saying good bye.

I remain as a caretaker unchallenged.

When බිඟුවා came in and started work, things were very promising. The article count went really high. The quality improved immensely. New tools came in to be. Lot of positive things started to happen in the project.

*That's a lot of writing for me. I'll write the rest some time later*

Welcome new Admin!

We had a vote once again. This time Singhalawap managed to make it through. He was/is a good contributor and I hope he will be a good sysop too.

As for the statistics:

The article count as of 2011-10-05 is 5593.

සුභ අළුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!

පොඩ්ඩක් පරක්කු වුණත් ඔන්න අමතක කළේ නෑ. සිංහල වීකිපීඩියාව වෙනුවෙන් තමන්ගෙ කාලය ශ්‍රමය වැයකරන හැමෝටම ලැබුවාවූ නව වසර සියලු යහපත් පැතුම් ඉටුවන සුභ නව වසරක් වේවා!

A Meetup!

Yesterday (2011-02-27) we had a sort of a Meet-up. Only myself, Singhalawap and අනංගයා was there. බිඟුවා was also supposed to be there but unfortunately the little bee got sick and the papa bee had to take him to hospital. I was also sick and so couldn't make it to the original venue. Only අනංගයා and Singhalawap managed to go there and they both payed me a visit and we had a nice chat about many topics from "Moon to center of Earth" (OK, You guessed right. I stole that quote ;-))

There were a lot of interesting things on discussion, I even forgot to take a picture also. May be I'll remember that on the next time. I sure hope to see a lot of people then.

This was definitely not an official meetup and was mostly arranged offline. Organizer was Singhalawap. He mailed and called us all and tried his best to get us to meet face-to-face. There were some suggestions from him that sounded pretty good. I hope we can have another meeting of this sort so we can properly discuss these things.



Following my usual tradition I'll end the post with my usual reference to statistics. As of today (2011-02-28), the current article count is: 4339. (It seems to be going down these days!)

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.

Welcome new Admin!

After a long time we managed to complete an admin vote. බිඟුවා has been an active contributor since a long time and this is his second time running for admin. If you have been following things happening on Sinhala Wikipedia you might have noticed that last time it was a complete disaster. Even though we thought the vote was concluded in favor of බිඟුවා, Stewards didn't think the same. So his request was turned down.

So finally the last vote went well and he won a majority of 9-0. Just nine votes do not count as enough in my opinion. Is that all we got? I hope බිඟුවා will be able to recruit some more contributors.

I wish the new admin best of luck and hope he can make a difference.

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As for the statistics we have 4405 articles as of 2010-12-29.

සුභ නත්තලක් වේවා!

ඔබ සැමට සාමය සතුට පිරි ශ්‍රී සුභ නත්තලක් වේවා!