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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.
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.
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.
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.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of 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!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may mention it at WikiProject India Outreach Department
This newsletter is automatically delivered by -- TinuCherian BOT - 02:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.
For the guideline on reviewing, see Wikipedia:Reviewing. Being granted reviewer rights doesn't change how you can edit articles even with pending changes. The general help page on pending changes can be found here, and the general policy for the trial can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. —DoRD (talk) 12:41, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
TZP is being developed
Hi there,
You did such a great job working Taare Zameen Par through its GAC that I wanted to let you know it is being developed with the goal of a future FAC. If you have the time, perhaps you can take a look at the article. -Classicfilms (talk) 17:49, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Outreach department
Hey!
The template provided on the Outreach department page of Portal:India to display the full newsletter is not working on my page. Could you pleae help me?
Thanks. HarshMujhse baat kijiye(Talk) 18:52, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
I think a better name is 2010 Kashmir protests so as to cover many things, stone pelting and the shoe attack on Omar Abdullah. This Quit Kashmir Movement (2010) is not used universally by all media and mainly hurriyat uses it. What do you think Hometech (talk) 20:13, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I checked the refs in the article and saw that most of the refs from the official website are now dead due to the redesigning of the site. I modified the refs with links that I could find on the new site and placed dead link tags on the refs that I could not find. The dead refs either need to be deleted or modified for the article to achieve WP:GA status. Thanks. -WorLD8115(TalK) 08:38, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
Hello, SBC-YPR. You have new messages at Talk:Kubera/GA1. Message added 17:28, 4 October 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hello, SBC-YPR. You have new messages at Talk:India. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi SBC-YPR, Devi Maha Lakshmi is considered like a daughter to Kubera who is said to be bestowing him with all wealth and definitely not his consort ! There has never been a story or instance in Hindu mythology where a Goddess is considered consort to one at some time point, and other at some other. I have heard this from Vaishnava practising gurus that Maha Lakshmi blesses Kubera for his wealth and she is like a daughter to him, however, I donot have any references to quote. Given wiki's credibility, I request you to kindly look into this, or atleast remove the statement until clarified.
Thanks. Premalatha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.213.4 (talk) 06:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the GA review. I have few queries about the review. Please take a look. Thanks. --RedtigerxyzTalk 07:45, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
SBC-YPR, Darjeeling might be in Bengal but we do not share the language nor the culture with the rest of the state. I hope I've made my point clear. As for edit summaries, will do so. Thanks.--Yuvach (talk) 05:43, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Help
Hi there wanted some help, if please give me some guidelines on my talk page under section Photographs, I would be more thankful :) KuwarOnlineTalk 15:59, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
Hello, SBC-YPR. You have new messages at Talk:Kubera/GA1. Message added 16:35, 28 October 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Can you please check the article and comment? so I can improve it further per your suggestions. Thanks.--RedtigerxyzTalk 17:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Corrected per your suggestions. Please check again. Thanks. --RedtigerxyzTalk 16:44, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Changed patronymic as in ref. --RedtigerxyzTalk 14:49, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the GA pass and your comments and edits which improved the article. Happy Diwali to you --RedtigerxyzTalk 10:10, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Bangalore
Hi ,
Bangalore is always known as Bengaluru . Even now the govt. has changed and made a practice to change the name from Bangalore to Bengaluru. e.x : Telephone Directory 2010 , issued by the Central Govt. So I request you to please change the name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naraharikarthik (talk • contribs) 18:10, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
WCTC stall pics
I have uploaded a couple of myimages to commons. Didnt add them myself to the newsletter as i am not a good formatter :-). --Sodabottle (talk) 14:31, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.
Looking forward to more contributions from you!
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I am just getting annoyed on the link spam by mapsofindia guys. I just did a simple search and there are 475 links. Should we be cleaning them up with WP:AWB or so? What do you feel? Srikanth (Logic) 14:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Ultimate comedy, its like asking M$ to GPL windoz. Are you alright. Btw, am checking AWB possibilities to have minimal impact. Srikanth (Logic) 15:41, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
India Reverting Edit
I recently made a change in India wiki article. I did separate Foreign Relations from Military. In accordance with what is asked to do - I did for a month before wrote about separating about those two title. For last one month no one has commented on the discussion board so I believed no one had to comment or a suggestion or an qualms about that. Hereby seeing no response I changed.
Can I ask under what authority did you revert my change of separate one single title two different titles. For more see the discussion board of India wiki article.
Akbar
Hello. You have nominated Akbar as good article. But when I review it, nobody pay attention to the points. I hope you edit the article as soon as possibel. --Seyyed(t-c) 05:45, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Apparently, this article will not reach GA criteria at this time. However, it is close to it and you can renominate it as soon as solving the problems.--Seyyed(t-c) 16:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 00:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Replaceable fair use File:Kashmir train.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Kashmir train.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Bkell (talk) 14:33, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
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