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WikiProject Films August 2008 Newsletter
WP:FILMS Questionnaire
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009
Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »
WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.
Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.
To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »
Currently, 11,084 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!
Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.
RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.
"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.
Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.
Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!
To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!
These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?
Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.
We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »
Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.
A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!
Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!
Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!
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Unreferenced BLPs tag. Here is the list:
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)
Project News
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
What's New?
- Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
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This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
- Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
- Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.
- Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
- A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
- Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
- The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.
- Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.
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Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Ravindra Gujjula
Irrigation in India,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
articles on castes,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Bangaru Adigalar,
Medical college (India),
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
But Marma Atti,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Integral humanism,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
Andhra Bank,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assesment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
Signed...
- SBC-YPR (Editor)
- Sodabottle (Editor)
- Tinu Cherian (Distributor)
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Sibichen K Mathew,
Dominic Emmanuel,
AK Merchant,
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Medical college (India),
All India Radio,
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri,
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles,
Maithili Wikipedia articles,
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assessment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
- The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
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The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
- The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
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Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
- The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
- Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.
Community news
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The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
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Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!
- This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
- A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.
- Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.
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The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
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WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 ContestHello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
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You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
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WP:FILMS Questionnaire
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009
Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »
WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.
Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.
To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »
Currently, 11,084 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!
Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.
RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.
"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.
Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.
Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!
To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!
These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?
Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.
We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »
Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.
A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)
Project News
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
What's New?
- Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
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This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
- Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
- Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.
- Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
- A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
- Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
- The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.
- Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.
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Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Ravindra Gujjula
Irrigation in India,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
articles on castes,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Bangaru Adigalar,
Medical college (India),
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
But Marma Atti,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Integral humanism,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
Andhra Bank,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assesment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
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- Sodabottle (Editor)
- Tinu Cherian (Distributor)
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Sibichen K Mathew,
Dominic Emmanuel,
AK Merchant,
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Medical college (India),
All India Radio,
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri,
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles,
Maithili Wikipedia articles,
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assessment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
- The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
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The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
- The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
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Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
- The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
- Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.
Community news
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The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
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Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!
- This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
- A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.
- Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.
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Invite to WikiConference India 2011
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The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.
But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.
As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.
We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011
WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 ContestHello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009
Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »
WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.
Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.
To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »
Currently, 11,084 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!
Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.
RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.
"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.
Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.
Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!
To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!
These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?
Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.
We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »
Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.
A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)
Project News
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
What's New?
- Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
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This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
- Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
- Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.
- Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
- A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
- Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
- The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.
- Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.
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Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Ravindra Gujjula
Irrigation in India,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
articles on castes,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Bangaru Adigalar,
Medical college (India),
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
But Marma Atti,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Integral humanism,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
Andhra Bank,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assesment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
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- Sodabottle (Editor)
- Tinu Cherian (Distributor)
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Sibichen K Mathew,
Dominic Emmanuel,
AK Merchant,
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Medical college (India),
All India Radio,
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri,
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles,
Maithili Wikipedia articles,
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assessment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
- The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
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The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
- The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
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Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
- The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
- Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.
Community news
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The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
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Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!
- This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
- A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.
- Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.
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Invite to WikiConference India 2011
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The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.
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As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.
We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011
WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 ContestHello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
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You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.
Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.
Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!
To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!
These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?
Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.
We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »
From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »
Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.
A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!
Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!
Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
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Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu. Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics! |
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Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »
Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident. A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians! Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect! Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun! This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! |
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)
Project News
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
What's New?
- Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
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This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
- Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
- Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.
- Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
- A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
- Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
- The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.
- Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.
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Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Ravindra Gujjula
Irrigation in India,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
articles on castes,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Bangaru Adigalar,
Medical college (India),
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
But Marma Atti,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Integral humanism,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
Andhra Bank,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assesment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
Signed...
- SBC-YPR (Editor)
- Sodabottle (Editor)
- Tinu Cherian (Distributor)
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
Complete To Do List
Complete To Do List
Requests:
Sibichen K Mathew,
Dominic Emmanuel,
AK Merchant,
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
More...
NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
,
Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Medical college (India),
All India Radio,
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri,
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles,
Maithili Wikipedia articles,
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assessment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
- The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
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The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
- The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
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Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
- The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
- Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.
Community news
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The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
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Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.
Current proposals and discussions
- Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.
- Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!
- This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
- A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.
- Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
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As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide.
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WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 ContestHello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
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Proposed deletion of File:Serfoji II 2.jpg
The file File:Serfoji II 2.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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