Talk:Emerging strategic priorities/ESP 1 key questions/What are the underlying causes of Wikimedia's limited take-off in India?

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The reasons of the low speed of wiki progress in India may be one or more of the reasons from my point of view
  • Expensive bandwidth
  • Lack of feeling of contribution
  • Feeling of gain(what can we get by writing in free wiki?)
  • Poverty ... work more but earn less , no free time
  • Lack of tradition of self study ..studying other than text books
  • Spend time in television,movies if free time not the internet
  • Low computer literacy , even literacy
  • Lack of knowledge about the wikis
  • Thinking Internet is the replacement of the telephone, and mail boxes
  • Thinking computer as the high class items ...list goes and goes ..main thing is lack if awareness ..सरोज कुमार ढकाल 17:21, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


  1. The concept of Wikipedia is just that of the olden days philosophy of India सहना ववतु सहनौ भुनक्तु सहवीर्यं कर्वा वहै तेजस्वीना वद्दीतमस्तु Let us prosper together knowledge if free of any ownership. It is like a river that belongs to everyone. Let us join hands together to enhance our knowledge. This philosophy, now prevalent in Western World, is rarely seen among the youth of India. With the time, when youth will realize the need of knowledge without bound, the use of wikipedia will be elevated. Dineshjk 10:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]


I will prefer to analyse this differently,See those language wikipedias which are from developed countries/or say financial well of countries like Japan Germany and French language wikis are doing well.
Second is what India's literate elite has contributed is more towards english langugae.
Less word of mouth and so lack of awareness(even less number of controverisies ,even controveries lead to buzz and meda and word of mouth)
Other problems which are discussed earlierMahitgar 14:03, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If India's literate elite contributes to the English Wikipedia then the solution may be to map an abstract/header in Hindi into the English articles shown in India, at least where a corresponding Hindi article is known. A finer distinction could be made depending on language preferences of the individual user. --Fasten 14:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I do agree Mahitgar 12:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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