INCOTM - February 2012 report - Wikimedia-in-en

29 Feb 2012

Hello Everyone!

It's time to review the
WP:INCOTM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM>for the month
of February 2012.

Last month, Dance in India
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_India>was the only article
chosen for the INCOTM.

During the period under question, Dance in India had 208 edits from 20
contributors. This is quite good compared to the last month's COTM -
Premchand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premchand> which had 133 edits from
17 contributors. This months COTM was a success in my eyes as the following
improvements were seen-

   - Lede was improved and expanded.
   - Size - increased from 1256 words to 1566 words (although this appears
   less it is still significant, see the reason below).
   - The article was restructured and visually appears better now.
   - Origin of dance, folk and tribal dance forms & contemporary dance were
   the new sections added.
   - Referencing improved from 2 to 38 (very good progress indeed in this
   aspect).
   - Images went up from one to five.
   - Sub-sections were made for the classical dance section.
   - Linking, grammar and other minor things were also improved.

However,

   - There was no drastic increase in the size of article as it increased
   just by 1.25 times. This was because while new sections were added, old
   sections like Ottan Tullal, Dasi Assam and Modern day television shows were
   removed under WP:UNDUE <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UNDUE>.
   That reduced the article length substantially.
   - More sections need to be added to the classical dance - one para per
   each of the main classical dance forms.
   - Although the referencing has been improved to a great extent, there
   are still some *citation needed* tags present.

The top four editors of Dance in
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_India>for the month of
February 2012 were:

   1. Hisham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham> - 51 edits
   2. Nitika.t <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t> - 46 edits
   3. Noopur28 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28> - 29 edits
   4. Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr> - 11 edits

To encourage contribution, they have been awarded a Barnstar for taking
time and effort to participate. Special thanks to Karthikndr for adding the
references and helping in removing the *refimprove* tag just a day before
the COTM was about to terminate. Also, thanks to
AroundTheGlobe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AroundTheGlobe>for
adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for
the same.

We still need more work to be done on Dance in
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_India>as it is one of the
highest visibility articles of the WikiProject - it
gets 500 to 600 pageviews per day!

*GA/FA of the month*

As far as Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi>goest;goes,
there were 213 edits with the major contributors being
AshLin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin>,
Hisham<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham>am>,
Rjensen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen> and Dav
subrajathan.357<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subra…;redlink=1>.
Wikilove has been sent to motivate them to continue the long struggle.

The referencing is still being carefully weeded. It has been completely
moved to cite templates now. A lot of dud references have been detected and
replaced. In some cases what the reference was saying had no bearing to the
text and was replaced. Preference was given to references which are
verifiable online. Referencing continues because the article is a mixture
of cite & Harvard referencing styles.

It was suggested we go in for one of three models of referencing -

   - Direct referencing with Footnotes section & no bibliography
   - Shortened references with Bibliography at the end.
   - Harvard referencing.

It has been decided to move it to shortened urls/Bibliography model as the
bibliography already exists and the Harvard referencing was in minority.
Hopefully that once this ends, the GA proper can begin. The time taken for
all this underlines the great importance of accurate referencing and
choosing reliable sources.

Thank you all for contributing to this month’s INCOTM. Hoping for an even
better response for the next COTM - APJ Abdul
Kalam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam>
.

Cheers,

Pratik Lahoti.

User:BPositive