This (71) is just the Child level number, a lot of WikiProjects have their own sub-task forces (grandchild level for WP:India), WP:Hinduism for example, has 6. So the actual number is probably a lot higher. You will however find that a lot of these projects are of interest to non-Indians as well.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:43:00 +0530 From: ashwin.baindur@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] Discovery - So Many WikiProjects!
Wanting to add a new Task Force for Women and Gender Issues, I checked out the link Task Forces in the WikiProject India Navigation Box. This link opens a drop-down box which is kept closed at other times. I was shocked to find that we had not 5, or 10 or even 15 Task Forces but 71!
Don't believe me?
Here's the list.
Seeing that WikiProject India is a humungous WikiProject with over 500 listed editors, it seems reasonable to have a few WikiProjects. But 71 seems unreasonably high all the same.
The biggest culprit is Geography - it provides TFs for each state & UT. But how many of these are active?
==Religion (7)==
- Hinduism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Hinduism)
- Buddhism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Buddhism)
- Jainism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Jainism)
- Sikhism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sikhism)
- Zoroastrianism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Zoroastrianism)
- Islam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Islam)
- Christianity in India
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_Christianity)
==Arts (1) ==
==Media & communications (2) ==
- Cinema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Films/Indian_cinema_task_...)
- Television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_television)
==Images (1) ==
==Language & literature (2) ==
- Translation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Translation)
- Classical Tamil
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classical_Tamil)
- Literature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_literature)
- Hindustani and allied languages
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Hindustani_and_allied_lan...)
==History (2) ==
- History (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_history)
- Military history
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Indian_m...)
==Demographics (2) ==
- Caste system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Caste_system)
- Women and gender issues
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Women_and_gender_is...)
==Geography== ===Generic (3)===
- Geography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geography_of_India)
- Regions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Regions_of_India)
- Protected areas of India
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Protected_areas_of_India)
===Cities & Districts (6)===
- Cities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities)
- Districts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_districts)
- Chennai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chennai)
- Hyderabad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Hyderabad)
- Mumbai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mumbai)
- Patna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Patna)
===States (29)===
- States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_states)
- Andhra Pradesh
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Andhra_Pradesh)
- Arunachal Pradesh
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arunachal_Pradesh)
- Assam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Assam)
- Bihar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bihar)
- Chhattisgarh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chhattisgarh)
- Goa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Goa)
- Gujarat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gujarat)
- Haryana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Haryana)
- Himachal Pradesh
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Himachal_Pradesh)
- Jammu and Kashmir
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Jammu_and_Kashmir)
- Jharkhand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Jharkhand)
- Karnataka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Karnataka)
- Kerala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Kerala)
- Madhya Pradesh
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Madhya_Pradesh)
- Maharashtra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maharashtra)
- Manipur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Manipur)
- Meghalaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Meghalaya)
- Mizoram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mizoram)
- Nagaland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Nagaland)
- Orissa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Orissa)
- Punjab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Punjab_%28India%29)
- Rajasthan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rajasthan)
- Sikkim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sikkim)
- Tamil Nadu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tamil_Nadu)
- Tripura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tripura)
- Uttar Pradesh
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Uttar_Pradesh)
- Uttarakhand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Uttarakhand)
- West Bengal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_West_Bengal)
=== Union Territories (7) ===
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islan...)
- Chandigarh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chandigarh)
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dadra_and_Nagar_Haveli)
- Daman and Diu
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Daman_and_Diu)
- Delhi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Delhi)
- Lakshadweep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakshadweep)
- Puducherry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Puducherry)
==Economy (1) ==
==Government (1) ==
==Transport (3) ==
- Transport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Transport_in_India)
- Railways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Railways_in_India)
- Roads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_roads)
==Others (4) ==
- Indian portals
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_portals)
- Education (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Education_in_India)
- Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools (OWIS)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_Ind...)
At this stage, I do not want to get into the undoing business, but I do request editors interested in a particular aspect to please be active in the appropriate task force, if necessary reviving it.
We have had a revival of WikiProject Gujarat to date and I do hope that many more such revivals take place!
Please forward it to your city group or Language Wikipedia group if you feel that they should know.
Warm regards,
AshLin
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