> From: anirudhsbh@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:38 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur <noopur.raval@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept
> > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was
> > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got
> > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up.
> > There are several reasons for this:
>
> It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have
> migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing
> [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]]
> and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome,
> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if
> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new
> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no
> expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful
> power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can
> help you out with that.
>
> We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of
> [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would
> make it easier for the users to add these categories easily.
>
> >
> > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make
> > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there.
>
> Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of
> images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See
> [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that).
>
> >
> > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be
> > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are
> > no one to judge whose image stays or goes.
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
> Thanks,
> anirudh
>
> >
> >
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