I know I keep going back to this, but I think its really important to involve the temples themselves - I got the Swaminarayan temple website admin to give me a blanket OTRS email in 2008 that Iv used to upload 200+ images to Commons. These images are of temples across 5 continents - getting them ourselves would have been a really difficult task otherwise.
I suggest you contact the temple trusts to donate pics and info to Wikipedia - most of them (if not all) are run by Public Chartiable Trusts and should be happy to help - after all Wikipedia articles on their temples promote them in a way.
> From: amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:21:27 +0200
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books
>
> ... And, you can also improve the current articles about temples just
> by adding references to external sources to confirm the information
> that is already written in the article. For example, the article
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marudamalai is reasonable long and has
> beautiful photos, but there are no references or footnotes, so the
> reader has no way to verify that the information is correct. After you
> add the references, you can remove the template at the top that says
> "This article does not cite any references or sources".
>
> And the corresponding article in Tamil ( http://tawp.in/r/6b7 ) is
> very short, so you could expand it.
>
> --
> Amir
>
>
>
> 2012/1/12 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>:
> > Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the
> > best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
> >
> > Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing
> > based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration:
> > If the book is copyrighted in a way that doesn't allow free reuse, and
> > most books are like this, then you cannot copy from it word by word,
> > but you can write the same information in your own words.
> >
> > I found quite a lot of articles about Hindu temples in the English
> > Wikipedia, but obviously there are many more that you could write. And
> > you could also write articles about temples in your native language
> > (Tamil?)
> >
> > --
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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> >
> >
> > 2012/1/12 Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@gmail.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples.
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
> >>
> >> It has temples everywhere.
> >>
> >> The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less.
> >> But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram,
> >> available in tamil.
> >>
> >> Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
> >>
> >> Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> T.Shrinivasan
> >>
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