WikiConference India 2016/Submissions/Community building practices in Tamil Wikipedia
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- Title of the submission
Community building practices in Tamil Wikipedia
- Your Username (For the submission author)
Ravidreams (Link)
- Type of presentation
Lightning talk (5 minutes)
- Abstract (in about 300 words)
Tamil Wikipedia has seen steady and sustained growth in building the community over the last 13 years. These are zero-budget, scalable, reproducible practices that can be implemented by any Wikimedia community. This lightning talk will give a glimpse of such practices that include:
- Digital outreach techniques
- Importance of sysop elections for editor retention
- Newbie embracing policies
- Policy initiatives in retaining unity of a transnational community
- Result
Accepted