WikimediaIndia-l December 2011

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Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Nepali
by Shiju Alex 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Dear All, Today I am sharing the experience of the Nepali Wiki community. As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with Nepali wikipedians also (Rajesh pandey, Bhawani Gautham, and Saroj Dhakal). You know all of them since they are active in India list also. Please read their experiences with the Nepali Wiki projects here. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_… Nepali with more than 16 million speakers world wide, has more than 3 million speakers in India. Nepali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of india. The speakers of Nepali are distributed across India, even though a more concentration of speakers of Nepali language is in North Eastern India. >From the English Wikipedia article about Nepali language: In India, there are a large number of Nepali-speaking people. There are an estimated 500,000 Nepali speakers in Sikkim (where Nepali is the official state language.) In Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal, there are about 1,400,000 Nepali speakers. In North-East India (states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh), there are several million Nepali speakers. A considerable number of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many Indian cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. At the recently concluded WikiConference a Nepali Wikipedian, Saroj Dhakal, gave us a wonderful overview of Nepali Wikiprojects. I just noticed that most of the active contributors of Nepali wikipedia are staying in India. Kindly read the experience of Nepali Wikipedians at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_… Inviting your comments on the talk page. Shiju

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Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.
by CherianTinu Abraham 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject India on en.wiki is out of scope on wikimediaindia-l and its subscribers. While most of the Indian language Wikipedia have their separate mailing lists, co-ordination & collaboration among the Indian Wikimedians contributing to English Wikipedia has become the most difficult. English Wikipedia mailing list "wikien-l" is too boarder scope of discussing them. I am aware that we have "too many lists", but it is expected as the community grows in size and creation of separate lists is justified as long as we have enough activity on/around it. I am of the opinion that India-related content and community of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia is as equally important to grow as Indic language Wikipedias. In this context, I would propose the creation of a "wikimedia-in-eng" or "wikiproject-india-en" mailing list. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place > here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on > their watchlist. > > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas < >> pradeep.mohandas(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much >>> discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there >>> are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the >>> lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for. >>> >> >> +1. >> >>> >>> warm regards, >>> Pradeep >>> >>> User:Prad2609 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530 >>> From: parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com >>> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA >>> >>> >>> I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking >>> itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one. >>> --Re, >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop(a)gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>> Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:IN<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3aIN>for these? :) >>> >>> >>> Swaroop Rao >>> (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aMikeLynch>) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>> I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for >>> English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too >>> think that is a good idea. >>> >>> Shiju >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur < >>> ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Is that what you mean, Srikanth? >>> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content >>> >>> I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today. >>> >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Ashwin Baindur >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < >>> parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ashwin, >>> I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own. >>> Re, >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur < >>> ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British >>> Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of >>> WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with >>> us. We are now down another FA. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Ashwin Baindur >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan. >>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan. >>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing >>> list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list >>> / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Srikanth Ramakrishnan. >> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

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More help required from Mallu Wikipedians #2
by Ashwin Baindur 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Dear friends, Cross-wiki content coordination. These are Malayalam CD articles & we need their equivalents on English Wikipedia. 1, Please create english stub articles for these missing articles on English Wikipedia - * കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം * തോൽപ്പാവക്കൂത്ത് 2. Please get images for the following art forms - not a single one is there on Commons. * കൂത്തമ്പലം<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%…> Koothambalam <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koothambalam>* പൂരക്കളി<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%…> Poorakkali <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorakkali> * കണ്യാർകളി<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%…> Kanyarkali <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyarkali> * കോതാമ്മൂരിയാട്ടം<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%…> Kothammuriyattam <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothammuriyattam> *കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം (Puppetry) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] & [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ >

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Wikipedia and marketing
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Heya all, My friend who works as a Social Media analyst, sent this to me: http://socialfresh.com/why-wikipedia-needs-marketers/ An exerpt: The volume of content is growing, but the active contributors to maintain, update and police those articles is shrinking. As this trend continues, vandalism, bias, outdated information and blatant factual errors will run even more rampant. Marketers are the most motivated to maintain Wikis on subjects important to them and invest the time in providing quality, well-verified content. We can fill this gap* if we can learn to support Wikipedia’s encyclopedic goals and follow the rules*. Cheers, -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

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Merge - request for help from Mallu wikipedians on en:WP
by Ashwin Baindur 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] & [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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[[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA
by Ashwin Baindur 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are now down another FA. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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