Wikimedia-in-en March 2013

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Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
by Ashwin Baindur 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

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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Call for volunteer support to conduct a workshop in Bhopal
by Karthik Nadar 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Dear Wikipedians, there has been request from an university team to conduct a workshop in Bhopal. If you're interested (staying in Bhopal, or somewhere nearby) or, please do mail me. Accommodations will be provided by the organising team. Thanks! -- Regards, Karthik Nadar. (Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter).

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Three new Featured Pictures by an Indian
by Ashwin Baindur 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

A great achievement, three new Featured Pictures by an NRI user Yathin_sk. This has been reported here in the Signpost :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Featur… These are : * Bull Indian Elephant in musth. * Green peppercorn. * Female Steenbok antelope. Congrats, Yathin_sk! AshLin

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Wiki-recruitment ad - Volunteer coordinator for "Women & gender issues" Task Force of WikiProject India
by Ashwin Baindur 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

The page on "Women & gender issues" Task Force of WikiProject India was created in Feb 2012. Thanks to a few editors, this page is now "start" class ;) rather than stub. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Women_and_gender_i… This is an appropriate time to request all those WikiProject India members who participated in the Women's Day editathon to kindly enlist for this task force. We are also looking for a Volunteer coordinator (feminine volunteer preferable) as the first volunteer coordinator for this task Force. The volunteer coordinator's job is to coordinate editing efforts, encourage editors and carry out housekeeping and general tender loving care of the articles under the aegis of the task force. The current list of articles under the TF can be found here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Indian_women_and_gender_i… Needless to say, we expect the volunteer coordinator to cooperate with Rohini Lakshane, the newly elected SIG of the Women's Issues for the Wikimedia India chapter. One may volunteer for this post by replying on this thread. Hoping to find many members enlisting for the TF and volunteers for the post of coordinator! Warm regards, AshLin ------------------------------------------------------

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Women's Day events in India, March 8
by Rohini Lakshané 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

A few online and offline events are being conducted in on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8. The events continue thereafter too as March has been declared as Women's History Month. There is a Wikipedia editing workshop in Goa on March 8 at Nirmala Institute of Education from 3 pm to 5 pm. It is followed by an offline and online editathon. The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_… The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages. Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias. Regards, Rohini Lakshane

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Legolas2186
by Anirudh Bhati 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Hi all, I don't think this has been discussed yet. An editor from India with the handle Legolas2186 has been indef'd from the English Wikipedia due to years of fabrication of sources on articles related to Madonna, Lady Gaga and other artistes. Here are a few relevant links: http://www.dailydot.com/society/wikipedia-hoax-vandalism-legolas2186/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Legolas2186/Major_contributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Legolas2186/Fixing_citation_problems This highlights the vulnerability of the encyclopedia to insidious editing even when published sources were called into question. In this case, a trusted member of the volunteer community displayed a pattern of consistent misrepresentations and even fabrication of sources in some cases. thanks, Anirudh

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