[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Ashwin Baindur]

Hi,

First of all many thanks to our Calcutta brethren  for conducting this
photo walk and many thanks for uploading the images to Commons. Such events
will greatly help our country's herittage buildings, architecture,
landmarks etc be preserved.

After trying a quick & dirty look up with the results of your wonderful
event,  some points come to mind.

1.* NAMING OF IMAGES* - . The images with building names included in name
are very useful & easily locatable

eg :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aayakar_Bhawan_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0067.JPG

Images named in the following manner are not at all useful to find the
building concerned

eg : File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(32).JPG

especially since about 150 of these are so named.

2. *CATEGORISATION* - Images need to be categorised otherwise the images
cannot be located/used by those who dont know where to look for them.

3. *ARTICLE USAGE* - Tried to see what has stubs/images on English
Wikipedia  -

1. Shahid Minar - No link. [[Shaheed Minar]] of Bangladesh not India
2. Metropolitan Building - [[Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis0]] not
Kolkata
3. Tipu Sultan Mosque - [[Tipu Sultan Mosque]], image already available
4. Victoria House - no article
5. Statesman House - no article but an image may be added (when located) to
[[The_Statesman]]
6. Aaykar Bhawan - no stub
7. Great Eastern Hotel - can be added to
[[Places_of_interest_in_Kolkata#Historic_hotels]]
8. Central Telegraph Office - page for CTO Colombo & London but not for
Mumbai & Kolkata
9. National Assurance Building - no building
10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
11. Raj Bhawan - can be added to [[Raj_Bhavan_(West_Bengal)]]
12. St. John's Church - Meerut & Secunderabad pictured for India only
13. General Post Office - can be added to [[General_Post_Office,_Kolkata]]
14. Kolkata Collectorate - no article
15. Writers' Building - [[Writers'_Building]]
16. St. Andrews Chapel - no article

4. *STUB IMPROVEMENT* - Many buildings have no stubs. These need to be
made. Others need references, geo-code, images, etc.

Hope this feedback is useful in some way.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
>
> ROUTE
> We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck
> Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great
> Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh
> Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red
> Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded
> along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council
> House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
>
> MONUMENTS
> We covered the following monuments.
> 1. Shahid Minar
> 2. Metropolitan Building
> 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> 4. Victoria House
> 5. Statesman House
> 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> 8. Central Telegraph Office
> 9. National Assurance Building
> 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> 11. Raj Bhawan
> 12. St. John's Church
> 13. General Post Office
> 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> 15. Writers' Building
> 16. St. Andrews Chapel
>
> STATUES
> 1. Lenin
> 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> 3. Prafulla Chaki
> 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
>
>
>
>
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