Hi, Its been months that we had meetups at Hyderabad, and still i feel that nothing significant has been done to tewiki. Some facts about tewiki :
- There are more than 48000 articles with the article count at the moment of writing this mail being 48111. - Most articles are one liners with the villages as theme, content being village name, mandal name and district name. - Many articles are a direct word to word translations of English Wikipedia articles which lack nativity and have several grammatical mistakes. - Articles that can be marked as good are very few. - Most of the places, personalities, other important entities do not have articles at tewiki.
So, its obvious that we need to have a quality improvement of existing articles and creation of relevant content as well. Also, we envision to have reached the 50 k mark by August 29, 2011.
In this regard, I propose the first Telugu Wikipedia marathon on July 10, 2011.
Venue Honeypot IT Consulting Private Limited, 6-2-46, Moin Court, Advocates Colony, AC Guards, Hyderabad.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=...
the marathon will run for 4-6 hours and participants can even do it from their places. Those with lack of computer/internet facility can make use of the venue.
With thanks and regards Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని
2011/7/3 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1only@gmail.com
Hi,
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So, its obvious that we need to have a quality improvement of existing
articles and creation of relevant content as well. Also, we envision to have reached the 50 k mark by August 29, 2011.
In this regard, I propose the first Telugu Wikipedia marathon on July 10, 2011. --cut-- the marathon will run for 4-6 hours and participants can even do it from their places. Those with lack of computer/internet facility can make use of the venue.
Happy to hear about the initiative. Good idea to engage people who can
participate remotely.
Structuring the sessions and having an IRC or other chat mechanism to help clarify/guide the participants will be helpful.
Identifying specific themes to do an assessment of the articles and then work on the same could be helpful aswell.
Best wishes.
Arjun
wikimedia-in-hyd@lists.wikimedia.org