Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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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>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>,
Rjensen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen> and Dav
subrajathan.357<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subrajathan.357&action=e…>.
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
Hiya,
The number of unassessed articles on WikiProject India currently stands at more than 18,000! Im wondering if there is an active task force or even a single member of the project that is dealing with these assessments? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unassessed-Class_India_articles_of_Un…)
A similar note has been left on the India noticeboard, as it seems no one has assessed articles for some time for there to be such a massive build up of backlog.
Kind Regards,
Hey Everyone,
We've been invited by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) to conduct workshops during their technical fest Tryst 2012. We'll be conducting 2 sessions - on the 3rd & 5th March (sat & mon). The agenda includes explaining the basics of Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few policies, anatomy of an article, basic editing Wikipedia etc.
Here is the link to the event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Delhi_Workshop_1
If you'd like to help out please add your details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Delhi_Workshop_1#Facilitato…
Thanks
Nitika
Hiya,
This is to inform you that Bishakha and I had a meeting with the team at the
Akshara Centre (http://www.aksharacentre.org/),
a Mumbai based NGO that works on womans rights and
runs a library in Mumbai yesterday. The
meeting was organised by Bishakha, who knows some
of the people running the organisation, as there
was some interest from their end to see if they
could collaborate with us in any way. I was asked
to join in as a Wikipedian to conduct a small
workshop for the team at Akshara so that they
could understand the principles and basics of
editing.
The scope is unimaginably big. As we realised,
rights issues in India are not covered much, even
on English Wikipedia. We have proposed starting of
a "Collaboration of the Month" initiative with
them, wherein we will choose a topic (i.e. one article) where both
Wikipedians involved and the NGO are comfortable
with - using Akshara's library resources as
references. They sounded excited about running
such a COTM on a pilot basis and have suggested we
organise a WikiAcademy for which they will invite
interested persons to come and attend, thus making
it easier for them to start off.
From our end, we are looking for atleast a couple
of Wikipedians who can help support such a project
online on a regular basis - the Wikipedian need not be Mumbai (or even India) based, as this is an online collaboration. Do contact Bishakha/me if your interested in helping out/ forward this to other lists where you feel we might get a response on the above.
Inputs on the above are most welcome.
Kind Regards,
Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have
read this on another mailing list.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter : Jan 2012 Report
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:08:57 +0530
From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in>
Reply-To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
To: Wikimedia India Community list
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members
<wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Dear all,
Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!
The Wikimedia Chapter (India) celebrated its first anniversary on 3rd
January 2012.
Organisational Updates
Formation of Task Forces:
The formation of the different task forces are still in progress. The
various task forces are a) Fundraising, b) Special Projects, c)
Administration, d) City and Language Special Interest Groups, and e)
Communications, PR & Media Relations.
We are seeking more volunteers for the task forces. If you are
interested, please feel free to contact the respective task force
stewards or find more information here [1]
Membership:
The Chapter membership stands at 196 members as of 31 January 2012. Six
new members were added to the chapter membership in this month. We
extend a very warm welcome to the family.
Donations:
Total donations received in Jan 2012 - INR 10700
Average donations in Jan 2012 - INR 3566
FCRA:
Our application for prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act FCRA 2010, with the Government of India is under
process. As the stated time for response is over recently, chapter will
be following up with the authorities. [ As we write this report, our
application was approved by the Government of India]
Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):
>From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
sessions. The IRC on Jan 05, 2011 was anchored by Sudhanwa Jogalekar
with the focus on Chapter Specia Interest Groups (SIG) co-ordination
[2]. The IRC on Jan 07, 2010, anchored by Arun Ramarathnam discussed on
the Jan 15th Celebration plans, SIGs and GLAM projects. [3]
Board Meetings:
The Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee had two tele-conference EC
meetings (dated 04 Jan and 18 Jan, 2012) in the month of January.The
Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint
co-ordination call on 25 Jan 2012, which was attended by Arjuna Rao
Chavala, Naveen Francis, Tinu Cherian and Hisham Mundol. The main
agenda of the call was on Chapter - Foundation India programs
Collaboration Framework .
WikiConference 2011
The Chapter and Mumbai Conference organisers are working closely for the
closure and audit of accounts related to WikiConference Mumbai 2011.
Community & Special Interest Groups.
SOPA and Wikipedia Blackout:
The global community of volunteers who edit the English Wikipedia
had decided to support the protest against the introduction of the
“Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the US House of Representatives
and the “Protect IP Act” in the US Senate. To that end, the
English Wikipedia was blacked out globally for a period of 24
hours on 18 January 2012. The black out in India commenced at
10.30am IST on 18 January 2012.
The Press release and Communication to the members related to Wikipedia
Blackout can found here [4],[5].
Wikipedia eleventh anniversary :
Wikipedia turned eleven on the 15th of January 2012. The eleventh
anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated in different parts of the
country [6]. More than 8 Indian cities and towns and over 200
Wikimedians & Wiki enthusiasts celebrated this occasion of Wikipedia
anniversary, around the nation.
Some of the meetups had a Wikipedia anniversary cake to celebrate the
occasion. Google Hangout was also conducted between different cities
celebrating at the same time.
The New Wikimedia India portal ( wikimedia.in <http://wikimedia.in> )
was launched on this day. It is designed to provide quick and rapid
access to Indic wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote and Commons.
A full collection of images related to the celebrations, around the
nation, can be found here [7].
Events:
A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the
nation is as follows.
Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad (3 Jan 2012): Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad [8] is
a scavenger hunt for free content photography in Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
organised by Noopur Raval , Anirudh Bhati and Srikeit Tadepalli. The
aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take
photographs of as many local sights and city specific objects of
cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles. Over 75
participants attended and around 815 images were uploaded to the
Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative [9].
Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II ( 28 Jan 2012) : This is the second
photography drive in Mumbai. [10] The event was led by Nikita Belavate,
Anshuman Fotedar and Karthik Nadar and other members of the Mumbai
Community. Over 625 images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons as a
part of this initiative [11]
Wiki Academies/Workshops : Several Wiki Academies were held in different
parts of the nation , organised and conducted by the Chapter, its
members ,WMF India Programs and the Wikimedia community in India. .
a) Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi , Kerala (05-Jan) [12]
b) Workshop at Text100, Mumbai (webcast to Text100 Delhi and Bangalore)
(06-Jan) [13]
c) SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (11-Jan ) [14]
d) P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, Sivakasi, Tamil
Nadu. (20-Jan) [15]
e) Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [16]
f) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [17]
g) Amrita School of Communication, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (28-Jan) (18)
h) Jamia Millia Islamia, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Delhi
(30-Jan) [19]
i) Kerala Sahitya Academy, Trissur, Kerala (8-Jan) [20]
j) Jnana Prabodhini - Wikiacademy, Pune (15-Jan) [21]
A session on Commons was conducted for photography group called
‘Tassavurrati’. [22] They have successfully started uploading pictures
of their trips (most recent: Surajkund Mela) to the Wkimedia Commons.
Other News:
* Telugu SIG celebrated the Wikipedia day on 29 Jan 2012 at Hyderabad.
Top 10 contributors in the articles category and non article
category were recognised at the function. [23]
* Sanskrit Wikipedia saw an excellent editor growth (50%) compared to
last month, and a 234% increase in the number of edits.
* The 1st Delhi Odia Wikimeetup and Academy was conducted on 29 Jan
2012 by Odia SIG Chair and WMF India Programs Consultant ,
Subhashish Panigraphi. [24]
* One of the first Assamese Wikipedia community meetup and Wikipedia
Workshop was held on Jan 29 at Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam [25]
Milestones & Anniversaries
January 2012
24
* TheSanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:>has
reached 200 entries with the addition of over a dozen entries all
apparently meaning "sun".
20
* TheDivehi Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Dv:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 100,000 page edits.
* TheAssamese Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 500 uploaded files.
17
* TheBengali Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 1,000 uploaded files.
* TheOriya Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Or:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 2,000 articles.
15
* TheBengali Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 1,000 uploaded files.
* TheUrdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:>has reached
10,000 entries.
13
* Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/>has reached
12,000,000 files.
* TheTamil Wikibooks
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 10,000 page edits.
10
* TheEnglish Wikibooks
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 40,000 book modules.
7
* TheMarathi Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 100,000 total pages.
* TheAssamese Wikipedia
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 1,000 articles.
Media Coverage
There was a huge coverage for Wikipedia on Indian media in this month,
mainly related to Wikipedia Blackout. A comprehensive list of the
coverage can be found here [24]
We look forward to your continued support and active participation.
Report compiled by Executive members,SIG chairs and The Communications team.
Best,
On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India)
Naveen Francis
Secretary
Notes:
1) http://members.wikimedia.in/Main_Page#Task_forces
2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_05,2012
3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_07,2012
4)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Press_Releases/2012/_English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark_…
5)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Communication_regarding_SOPA_and_Wik…
6) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven
7) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India
8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad
9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1
10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_II
11) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_2
12)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Cochin_University_of_Science_and_Tech…
13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_2
14)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/SSN_College_of_Engineering,_Chennai
15)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/P_S_R_Rengasamy_college_of_engineering_for_women,_…
16) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College
17) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jadavpur_University
18)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Amrita_School_of_Communication,_Coimb…
19) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MDHJMI1
20) http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WATSR2
21)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W11_celebration_Pune_wit…
22) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tassavurrati_1.jpg
23)
http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%…
24) http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MDEL1
25)
http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…
24) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Jan_2012
Hello everyone,
I want to start a discussion about WikiProject Protected Areas of India. We
do not have too much activity in the group and the number of articles that
this WikiProject looks after is also very small (only 442 as per date).
We have another issue, we do not have any Task Force to deal with green
issues, biodiversity or environment.
So I propose that WikiProject Protected Areas of India becomes WikiProject
Biodiversity, Protected areas & Environment of India with an enlarged scope.
Please comment on the talk page here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Protected_areas_of_…
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear All,
I am writing to share with you a very inspiring initiative regarding health
and medicine articles on Wikipedia. Crores of Wikipedia readers read up
about health related issues either when they or their loved ones fall ill
or before or after they have consulted doctors or when they are curious
about a particular disease or drug. In fact, quite a few doctors and
nurses also read up these articles to improve their knowledge.
Wikipedia's medical articles have 15-20 crore page views every month. The
top 300 articles are viewed more than 1 lakh times every month. The
challenge is that the majority of these articles are only available in
English.
This initiative (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…)
has been conceptualised by WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Canada and very
interesting organisation called Translators Without Borders. It seeks to
translate a set of 80 of the most important health care articles into as
many languages as possible.
Given the state of our health care system as well as the increasing
readership of Indic language projects, there is huge positive impact that
we can have if we participate in this initiative and have these articles in
all Indic languages. The project page (referenced above) includes an
outline of the project, FAQs, useful links and a sign up for interested
volunteers.
The ways that we can participate are as follows
- English Editors to improve articles on en-wp
- English Editors to convert articles into simple English Wikipedia (so
that non-English editors who don't have a medical background can also help
out)
- Indic editors to help translating either by themselves or by helping
the translators at Translators Without Borders
Remember, you don't have to be a health care professional to help out. All
you have to do is simply care.
I am really happy to note that 5 editors from 5 Indic languages have
already signed up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…>for
this wonderful project. Of these 2 languages - Assamese and Malayalam
- have already started wiki project and started working on articles (really
big comprehensive articles) related to Medicine.
Assamese wikipedia medicine project page: ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকিপ্ৰকল্প
চিকিৎসাবিজ্ঞান<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…>
Some of the articles created:
- কৰ্কট ৰোগ<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F_…>
(Cancer)
- সৰ্পদংশন<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A6%…>
(Snakebite)
Malayalam wikipedia biology project page:
വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വിക്കിപദ്ധതി/ജീവശാസ്ത്രം<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>
Some of the articles created:
- ആസ്മ (Asthma) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma>
- ന്യുമോണിയ (Pneumonia) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia>
- മസ്തിഷ്കാഘാതം (Stroke) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke>
Please note that this project do not involve machine translation or bots.
It is really happy to note that both in Assamese and Malayalam wiki these
projects are run by doctor (or medicine students) wikipedians :) Yes, Indic
wikipedias has editors from all wakes of life.
There is so much potential on the articles related to medicine both in
Indic and English. I encourage interested wikipedians to join this project
by adding your name
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…>
.
I welcome and invite everyone to join in.
Healthy Editing
Shiju Alex
