Dear All,
Today I am sharing the experience of the Nepali Wiki community.
As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with
Nepali wikipedians also (Rajesh pandey, Bhawani Gautham, and Saroj Dhakal).
You know all of them since they are active in India list also. Please read
their experiences with the Nepali Wiki projects here.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…
Nepali with more than 16 million speakers world wide, has more than 3
million speakers in India. Nepali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of
india. The speakers of Nepali are distributed across India, even though a
more concentration of speakers of Nepali language is in North Eastern
India.
>From the English Wikipedia article about Nepali language:
In India, there are a large number of Nepali-speaking people. There are an
estimated 500,000 Nepali speakers in Sikkim (where Nepali is the official
state language.) In Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal,
there are about 1,400,000 Nepali speakers. In North-East India (states of
Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal
Pradesh), there are several million Nepali speakers. A considerable number
of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many Indian cities such as
Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
At the recently concluded WikiConference a Nepali Wikipedian, Saroj Dhakal,
gave us a wonderful overview of Nepali Wikiprojects. I just noticed that
most of the active contributors of Nepali wikipedia are staying in India.
Kindly read the experience of Nepali Wikipedians at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…
Inviting your comments on the talk page.
Shiju
While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in
India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject
India on en.wiki is out of scope on wikimediaindia-l and its subscribers.
While most of the Indian language Wikipedia have their separate mailing
lists, co-ordination & collaboration among the Indian
Wikimedians contributing to English Wikipedia has become the most
difficult. English Wikipedia mailing list "wikien-l" is too boarder scope
of discussing them.
I am aware that we have "too many lists", but it is expected as the
community grows in size and creation of separate lists is justified as long
as we have enough activity on/around it. I am of the opinion that
India-related content and community of Indian Wikipedians on English
Wikipedia is as equally important to grow as Indic language Wikipedias.
In this context, I would propose the creation of a "wikimedia-in-eng" or
"wikiproject-india-en" mailing list.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place
> here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on
> their watchlist.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas <
>> pradeep.mohandas(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much
>>> discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there
>>> are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the
>>> lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for.
>>>
>>
>> +1.
>>
>>>
>>> warm regards,
>>> Pradeep
>>>
>>> User:Prad2609
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530
>>> From: parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com
>>> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking
>>> itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one.
>>> --Re,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:IN<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3aIN>for these? :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Swaroop Rao
>>> (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aMikeLynch>)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for
>>> English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too
>>> think that is a good idea.
>>>
>>> Shiju
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>> ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is that what you mean, Srikanth?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content
>>>
>>> I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today.
>>>
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ashwin,
>>> I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own.
>>> Re,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>> ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British
>>> Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of
>>> WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with
>>> us. We are now down another FA.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
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>>> Regards,
>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
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Heya all,
My friend who works as a Social Media analyst, sent this to me:
http://socialfresh.com/why-wikipedia-needs-marketers/
An exerpt:
The volume of content is growing, but the active contributors to maintain,
update and police those articles is shrinking. As this trend continues,
vandalism, bias, outdated information and blatant factual errors will run
even more rampant.
Marketers are the most motivated to maintain Wikis on subjects important to
them and invest the time in providing quality, well-verified content. We
can fill this gap* if we can learn to support Wikipedia’s encyclopedic
goals and follow the rules*.
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army
general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject
India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are
now down another FA.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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