Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTMfor the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiawas 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 Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiafor 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 AroundTheGlobehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AroundTheGlobefor adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiaas 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 Gandhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhigoes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin, Hishamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham, Rjensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subrajathan.357&action=edit&redlink=1. 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 Kalamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam .
Cheers,
Pratik Lahoti.
User:BPositive
2012/3/1 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com:
Hisham - 51 edits Nitika.t - 46 edits Noopur28 - 29 edits Karthikndr - 11 edits
Hi Prateek,
Thank you for your efforts at coordinating the INCOTM. Here's a suggestion: an effective way for assessment of contributions should be done by examining the quality of the contributions rather than the number of edits (re: "top editors"). For instance, even though Karthik Nadar has 11 edits, he has brought in valuable references for the article, and in contrast, Hisham's contribution with 51 edits has been minor gnoming and copy-editing of the page. An analysis to that effect would be more helpful to the users of this list along with examples of great edits. Thanks.
Best, anirudh
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Hi Anirudh,
For instance, even though Karthik Nadar has 11 edits, he has brought in valuable references for the article, and in contrast, Hisham's contribution with 51 edits has been minor gnoming and copy-editing of the page.
Yes I manually went through the contribs of all the editors and checked
out the diff between every edit made on the page during the entire month.
Yes, Karthik's contributions were significant as it helped in removing the refimprove tag. And that's the reason why I chose to give him the "Citation Barnstar", different from the "Teamwork Barnstar" which we give out regularly.
Hisham came up with minor edits but those were important as well and that's the way he has been working on past COTM's.
I see your point and next time, I'll be awarding the barnstars only on the basis of the contributions. Wikiloves will go for the minor edits.
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti wrote:
Hi Anirudh,
For instance, even though Karthik Nadar has 11 edits, he has brought in valuable references for
the article, and in contrast, Hisham's contribution with 51 edits has been minor gnoming and copy-editing of the page.
Yes I manually went through the contribs of all the editors and checked out the diff between every edit made on the page during the entire month.
Yes, Karthik's contributions were significant as it helped in removing the refimprove tag. And that's the reason why I chose to give him the "Citation Barnstar", different from the "Teamwork Barnstar" which we give out regularly.
Hisham came up with minor edits but those were important as well and that's the way he has been working on past COTM's.
I see your point and next time, I'll be awarding the barnstars only on the basis of the contributions. Wikiloves will go for the minor edits.
The most important measure of success in a community mobilisation effort like this is how many editors participated in the COTM for that month, and how can we we encourage more to join in. Pratik: Is there a way we can measure this? I know it's additional effort - but can we look at total editors on an article in the month before the article became COTM and the number during the COTM month? Of course it doesn't take into account a host of other variables (such as if the article suddenly becomes topical, how many of the editors are members of WP:INDIA, etc.) but there's no need to overanalyse it. Just a set of 2 comparison points would be good.
hisham
Of course it can be done. No big deal. But along with getting new editors, the article needs to be improved as well. Both are equally important and necessary in my opinion.
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
2012/3/1 Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org
On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti wrote: The most important measure of success in a community mobilisation effort like this is how many editors participated in the COTM for that month, and how can we we encourage more to join in. Pratik: Is there a way we can measure this? I know it's additional effort - but can we look at total editors on an article in the month before the article became COTM and the number during the COTM month? Of course it doesn't take into account a host of other variables (such as if the article suddenly becomes topical, how many of the editors are members of WP:INDIA, etc.) but there's no need to overanalyse it. Just a set of 2 comparison points would be good.
hisham
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On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Pratik Lahoti wrote:
Of course it can be done. No big deal. But along with getting new editors, the article needs to be improved as well. Both are equally important and necessary in my opinion.
Absolutely, Pratik. My point is that the most critical aspect of an initiative such as this should be to get as many community members involved as possible. Once this happens, and unfortunately only when it happens, will it gather momentum and be sustainable - and then sub-groups of editors will then drift onto other things (more COTMs or different collaborative initiatives entirely.) ...which is exactly the way it should be. The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As
this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
I think you are doing a great job Pratik :) Your enthusiasm is infectious! And oh, thanks for the barn star, I am glad I could contribute to the topic I am so passionate about. Cheers Noopur
2012/3/2 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As
this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
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I've designed the template and posted it on some of the talk pages. It is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive/sandbox. Please go ahead and post it on talk pages of editors(you know) who might be interested in the COTM. Lets spread the word and get as many editors for an article like A. P. J Abdul Kalam. :)
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.comwrote:
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As
this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India - on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:27:42 +0530 From: pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] INCOTM - February 2012 report
I've designed the template and posted it on some of the talk pages. It is available here. Please go ahead and post it on talk pages of editors(you know) who might be interested in the COTM. Lets spread the word and get as many editors for an article like A. P. J Abdul Kalam. :)
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com wrote:
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going! hisham
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2012/3/3 wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com:
You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India - on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
I think it would be quite spammy to make it a weekly affair.
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Monthly*
From: anirudhsbh@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:20:00 +0530 To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] INCOTM - February 2012 report
2012/3/3 wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com:
You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India - on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
I think it would be quite spammy to make it a weekly affair.
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Debanjan,
we need people for all sorts of tasks. We need an image coordinator, we need a Social media coordnator (both for WikiProject India & Pune community), we need volunteers i/c OWIs, volunteers i/c Cleanup. Lots of positions up for grabs! Besides this almost a hundred groups & departments.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
2012/3/3 wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com
You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India - on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:27:42 +0530 From: pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] INCOTM - February 2012 report
I've designed the template and posted it on some of the talk pages. It is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aBPositive/sandbox. Please go ahead and post it on talk pages of editors(you know) who might be interested in the COTM. Lets spread the word and get as many editors for an article like A. P. J Abdul Kalam. :)
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.comwrote:
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
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I call for Dibs on Image contributor.
See Ashwin, I can try to get a few of the successful IEP students involved in this, a lot of young blood might come in, but I need the names of the most vital positions that need to be filled and their nature of work.
2012/3/3 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
Debanjan,
we need people for all sorts of tasks. We need an image coordinator, we need a Social media coordnator (both for WikiProject India & Pune community), we need volunteers i/c OWIs, volunteers i/c Cleanup. Lots of positions up for grabs! Besides this almost a hundred groups & departments.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
2012/3/3 wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com
You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India -
on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:27:42 +0530 From: pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] INCOTM - February 2012 report
I've designed the template and posted it on some of the talk pages. It is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aBPositive/sandbox. Please go ahead and post it on talk pages of editors(you know) who might be interested in the COTM. Lets spread the word and get as many editors for an article like A. P. J Abdul Kalam. :)
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.comwrote:
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
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I don't want it to be sent to everyone. That template has been designed for newbies and editors who are not much into collaborations or not associated with any WikiProject as a matter of fact.
*--Pratik*
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You may want to get a bot to deliver the message to members of WP:India - on a monthly basis every time a new article is voted for.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:27:42 +0530 From: pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] INCOTM - February 2012 report
I've designed the template and posted it on some of the talk pages. It is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aBPositive/sandbox. Please go ahead and post it on talk pages of editors(you know) who might be interested in the COTM. Lets spread the word and get as many editors for an article like A. P. J Abdul Kalam. :)
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.comwrote:
Agree with you. I shall soon be designing a template which I'll be posting on talk pages of some active editors. Lets get more editors for the COTM who did well in the IEP and are continuing editing Wikipedia further.
Regards, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
The essential thing is to keep the number of folks involved growing. As this happens, the community will do what the community does best : improve articles! ...so not contradicting you; just making a point of emphasis about this effort - especially at the current stage of its lifecylce. Keep up the fantastic work, buddy. Awesome to see you going!
hisham
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Thanks a bunch Pratik and Anirudh for your kind words. Will keep up my work:) Again thanks to Pratik for the barnstar.
2012/3/1 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
Hi Anirudh,
For instance, even though Karthik Nadar has 11 edits, he has brought in valuable references for the article, and in contrast, Hisham's contribution with 51 edits has been minor gnoming and copy-editing of the page.
Yes I manually went through the contribs of all the editors and checked
out the diff between every edit made on the page during the entire month.
Yes, Karthik's contributions were significant as it helped in removing the refimprove tag. And that's the reason why I chose to give him the "Citation Barnstar", different from the "Teamwork Barnstar" which we give out regularly.
Hisham came up with minor edits but those were important as well and that's the way he has been working on past COTM's.
I see your point and next time, I'll be awarding the barnstars only on the basis of the contributions. Wikiloves will go for the minor edits.
Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
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You are welcome Karthik! :)
Happy Editing and Happy Citing ahead! :)
Cheers, Pratik.
2012/3/1 Karthik Nadar karthikndr@gmail.com
Thanks a bunch Pratik and Anirudh for your kind words. Will keep up my work:) Again thanks to Pratik for the barnstar.
-- Thanks and Regards, *Karthik Nadar.*
Great Going, folks. I feel so glad to see English Wikipedia also gaining much momentum in India. Particularly pleased to see Hisham & Nitika actually doing tons of edits. They are not saying " Guys, Go and Edit" ... instead, "We are editing too, come join us". Special regards to AshLin and all others for reviving [[WP:INDIA]].
All the best wishes !
Regards Tinu Cherian
2012/3/1 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTMfor the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiawas 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 Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiafor the month of February 2012 were:
- Hisham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham - 51 edits
- Nitika.t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t - 46 edits
- Noopur28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 - 29 edits
- 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 AroundTheGlobehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AroundTheGlobefor adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiaas 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 Gandhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhigoes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin, Hishamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham, Rjensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subrajathan.357&action=edit&redlink=1. 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 Kalamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam .
Cheers,
Pratik Lahoti.
User:BPositive
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Many thanks guys, I'm particularly happy with the way, young Pratik, Kondicherry & Sriram are looking after their new charges. :) It is great to see young folk take responsibility.
We are looking now for someone to drive the Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools project. That is such an important thing which requires not one but at least three dedicated volunteers. Any takers?
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
2012/3/3 Tinu Cherian tinucherian@wikimedia.in
Great Going, folks. I feel so glad to see English Wikipedia also gaining much momentum in India. Particularly pleased to see Hisham & Nitika actually doing tons of edits. They are not saying " Guys, Go and Edit" ... instead, "We are editing too, come join us". Special regards to AshLin and all others for reviving [[WP:INDIA]].
All the best wishes !
Regards Tinu Cherian
2012/3/1 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTMfor the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiawas 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:UNDUEhttp://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 Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiafor the month of February 2012 were:
- Hisham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham - 51 edits
- Nitika.t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t - 46 edits
- Noopur28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 - 29 edits
- 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 AroundTheGlobehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AroundTheGlobefor adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiaas 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 Gandhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhigoes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin, Hishamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham, Rjensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subrajathan.357&action=edit&redlink=1. 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 Kalamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam .
Cheers,
Pratik Lahoti.
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Ashwin, if you can provide a few details about the nature of the task, I would like to volunteer and get some other young folk too.
2012/3/3 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
Many thanks guys, I'm particularly happy with the way, young Pratik, Kondicherry & Sriram are looking after their new charges. :) It is great to see young folk take responsibility.
We are looking now for someone to drive the Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools project. That is such an important thing which requires not one but at least three dedicated volunteers. Any takers?
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
2012/3/3 Tinu Cherian tinucherian@wikimedia.in
Great Going, folks. I feel so glad to see English Wikipedia also gaining much momentum in India. Particularly pleased to see Hisham & Nitika actually doing tons of edits. They are not saying " Guys, Go and Edit" ... instead, "We are editing too, come join us". Special regards to AshLin and all others for reviving [[WP:INDIA]].
All the best wishes !
Regards Tinu Cherian
2012/3/1 Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTMfor the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiawas 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:UNDUEhttp://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 Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiafor the month of February 2012 were:
- Hisham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham - 51 edits
- Nitika.t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t - 46 edits
- Noopur28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 - 29 edits
- 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 AroundTheGlobehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AroundTheGlobefor adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Indiaas 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 Gandhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhigoes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin, Hishamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham, Rjensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dav_subrajathan.357&action=edit&redlink=1. 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 Kalamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam .
Cheers,
Pratik Lahoti.
User:BPositive
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