Thanks to Hisham for taking up the Manmohan Singh article and improving it considerably in
the last 2 days. This is exactly the spirit that is required to make COTM a success.
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:53:51 +0530
From: ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] Status report : COTM - Dec 2011
Hello friends,
Its (high) time for the Collaboration of the Month. Lets have a look at what we achieved
in these COTMs.
Last month we had restarted the COTM and decided to take up just two considering that
fewer members were taking interest in it. The one's selected were :
* [[Mullaperiyar dam]] &
* [[Manmohan Singh]]
During the period under question, Mullaperiyar Dam was the more active of the two. We had
267 edits from 62 contributors. This was good from the point of view of COTM. The COTM was
a success in this case as the dam article improved substantially:
* Improved lead.
* Improved material in Infobox
* New image on irrigated area by Captain of Hope.
* Some POV trash removed/rewritten.
* Dispute points clearer now.
* Improved references.
* Article sections were restructured.
* History of its construction improved.
Is it ready for GA? No, there are number of content issues. The article is not stable.
Unless some passionate editor really gets down to sift through all the dispute points,
ensure that they are written well in context, NPOV and with a timeline, it is not complete
from substance point of view. In parts of TN, Pennycuick, the builder of the dam, is
idolised and busts of his can be found in the countryside. This fact (with reference) and
an image is also needed imho. Someone who is a civil engineer needs to vet the article to
ensure whatever is written makes engineering sense. However, the article reads much better
now.
The top five editors (excluding self) of Mullaperiyar Dam during 01 December 2011 to the
time of writing this email were:
* Jponnoly - 51 edits
* Rsrikanth05 - 32 edits
* NortyNort - 19 edits
* 67.189.169.9 (anon) - 14 edits
* Captainofhope - 11 edits
To encourage contribution, the first three registered users have been awarded a Barnstar
for taking time and effort to participate. Captainofhope also gets a barnstar both for his
edits and the new diagram created.
Thumbs down point - the previous month's edits were even more - 348 in November 2011.
Main reason, due to interest generated by Prad2609 and RSrikanth05, Wikipedia editors
started editting the article in right earnest and over a hundred edits are in the last
week of November (Prad2609 was a significant contributor to those already mentioned).
Also, the dispute itself was in the news and saw attention form angry editors on both
sides. Considering the heat with which the dispute raged irl, the article was relatively
serene in December. :)
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED IN MULLAPERIYAR DAM COTM (Yes, I'm shouting!)
Manmohan Singh was a different story. Perhaps people did not like his stance in the Lokpal
Bill, but there were only 43 edits of which 14 were by User:AroundTheGlobe, who gets a
barnstar for dogged determination. The article was cleaned up but overall the effort the
community put into the article was not enough and it was not much improved.
So FAIL for this COTM!
In the next post, I shall be discussing the proposal for next month's COTM.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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