Wikimedia-in-en February 2012

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Most popular pages? List for December 2010. Remarks, including proposing the revival of Indian Cinema Task Force
by Ashwin Baindur 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

A chance find of this page reveals the most popular Wikipedia pages for December 2010 : http://stats.grok.se/en/top Of the top 1000 (including functional pages not containing information) WikiProject India had six : #39 [[India]] (Featured article, Top Importance) # 336 [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] (B Class, Top Importance ) (History & Politics TFs) #375 [[Indian classical dance]] (Start class, High Importance) #542 [[Shahrukh Khan]] (B Class, Mid Importance ) (Delhi, Cinema & Television TFs) #648 [[Bollywood films of 2010]] (List Class, Mid Importance) (Cinema TF) #757 [[Sachin Tendulkar]] (B Class, High Importance ) (Maharashtra & Mumbai TFs) #765 [[Katrina Kaif]] (C Class, Low Importance) (Cinema TF) I have excluded [[Nicki Minaj]] and [[Freddie Mercury]] from this list. It takes a real stretch of imagination to add [[Nicki Minaj]] to the WikiProject. Freddie Mercury is already under the WikiProject. I think that there are people other than Indians enough to bother about these two articles. A few remarks: * Where can one find the top 100 articles in term of page views? It can be argued that these are the most valuable real estate we have. It would be very useful to be able to know and improve these articles. * Can any one point us to an existing tool for this? * Alternatively, can any one set up a tool page for this. * For some reason [[Indian classical dance]] is very valuable. We really need to bring it upto B Class standards at the earliest. After [[Dance in India]]. thi should be the next project for all editors interested in song & dance. * The analogue of [[Bollywood films of 2010]] is [[Bollywood films of 2012]]. This years list has already been viewed 2,44,217 times in the last 30 days. *We need to revive Task Force Indian Cinema. Bollywood & associated film industries are not only extremely popular topics to our people, but also to our diaspora. Even more importantly, talking like a soldier, Indian Cinema is one of the most powerful mechanisms of soft power extended by our nation.Our adversaries would pay billions of dollars to be able to get that kind of influence. No question, Indian Cinema on English Wikipedia needs loads of attention. * Articles on major stars will always be high on India page-view lists and probably draw more page views than the top ten articles on most lists. These need to be developed well for that reason. * May I request someone interested in Bollywood to please recruit new users who are already editing Indian cinema articles; I am sure there are at least a hundred newbies out there if not more and entice them to WikiProject Indian Cinema? * User:Karthikndr is the coordinator there and we have many capable participants including admins such as Utcursch, Sir Nick, & Gurubrahma. * We need a monthly report on this list & on India Noticeboard on the activity in Indian Cinema to interest us & keep us involved. Karthik Nadar, can you please oblige? Note: Task Force Indian Cinema is actually the Indian Cinema Task Force for WikiProject Films and is a joint task force alongwith WikiProject India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Films/Indian_cinema_task… Warm regards, AshLin

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Crafts museum page
by Noopur 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Dear all, I've created a working Project page on en-WP for the Crafts museum project. I welcome you all to join and put down your name as participants. Everyone is welcome, including people interested in translations, making userboxes, providing stats, creating articles and so on. We've hit a few roadblocks getting the formal agreement finalized, while that still happens I realized there was a lot of back end work which could be finished. Look forward to your support! Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Crafts_Museum -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690

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Wiki-Project Mangalore!
by Joyson Prabhu 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hey guys, I have created a separate Wiki-Project for Mangalore. Anyone interested can add your name here. The project was deleted before, and i hope that this time there are enough people to keep it functioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mangalore/Members Joyson Prabhu

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Most popular pages? List for December 2010. Remarks, including proposing the revival of Indian Cinema Task Force
by Ashwin Baindur 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Thanks GaneshK, very useful link. Much appreciated. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ 2012/2/19 Ganesh Krishnamurthy <ganeshkmurthy(a)gmail.com> > Ashlin: Where can one find the top 100 articles in term of page views? > > * Can any one point us to an existing tool for this? > > Here is the Tool server link: > > > http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php?proj=india&month=Jan12&limit=100&… > > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM, < > wikimedia-in-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Send Wikimedia-in-en mailing list submissions to >> wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> wikimedia-in-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> wikimedia-in-en-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-in-en digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Fwd: New Wikimedia India Portals (Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India)) >> 2. Re: Most popular pages? List for December 2010. Remarks, >> including proposing the revival of Indian Cinema Task Force (ansuman) >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-en mailing list > Wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en > >

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Wikimedia-in-en Digest, Vol 3, Issue 28
by Ganesh Krishnamurthy 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Ashlin: Where can one find the top 100 articles in term of page views? > * Can any one point us to an existing tool for this? Here is the Tool server link: http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php?proj=india&month=Jan12&limit=100&… On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM, < wikimedia-in-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-in-en mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimedia-in-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-in-en-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-in-en digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: New Wikimedia India Portals (Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India)) > 2. Re: Most popular pages? List for December 2010. Remarks, > including proposing the revival of Indian Cinema Task Force (ansuman) > >

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What is the implication of auto=yes in WikiProject Template
by Ashwin Baindur 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

In the WikiProject India Template, there is an option called "auto" which has the following documentation in the template : *auto* – "*yes*" This parameter is for bot-use. What on earth does it imply? IF I add the template to an unassessed article, should I add this parameter or not? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: New Wikimedia India Portals
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Cross-posting to other mailing lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:18:34 +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> Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/>The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in <http://members.wikimedia.in/>Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in<http://wikisource.in/> http://wikiquote.in<http://wikiquote.in/> http://wikibooks.in<http://wikibooks.in/> http://wikinews.in<http://wikinews.in/> http://wikibooks.org.in<http://wikibooks.org.in/> http://wikisource.org.in<http://wikisource.org.in/> http://wiktionary.org.in<http://wiktionary.org.in/> The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here <http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html>. Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter

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India quiz
by Naveen Francis 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:India/Quiz Crack the question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:India/Quiz#Q_43.08 Thanks, naveenpf

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Discovery - So Many WikiProjects!
by Ashwin Baindur 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

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Volunteer coordinator for WikiProject Gujarat
by Ashwin Baindur 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Dear friends, WikiProject Gujarat is one of the many Task Forces/daughter WikiProjects of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia, I am happy to report that we have new blood and fresh activity in WikiProject Gujarat for last few weeks. The participants of the last photothon are continuing to maintain the momentum gained from that event and we are seeing both results and new initiatives. Senior editors from Gujarat are doing their bit and mentoring the young folk. In this backdrop, it is my privilege to introduce Konarak Ratnakar, (User:Kondicherry) to the community. Konarak has been very active in Ahmedabad meetups and has agreed to promote WikiProject Gujarat on English Wikipedia as a volunteer coordinator. I request you all to join me in welcoming him and also to support him as he goes around reviving the WikiProject. Please note that WikiProject Gujarat, on English Wikipedia is not to be confused with the similar sounding Gujarati Wikipedia. With this, the number of volunteer coordinators on English Wikipedia goes up to three - self, BPositive, and now Kondicherry. The actual requirement is almost one hundred, that is how many departments/TFs/daughter WikiProjects we have! So if anybody would like the stewardship of any function in the WikiProject, be assured there is lots of opportunity and so please step forth and volunteer. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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