>
> Cheers,
> Barry
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Anirudh Bhati <
anirudhsbh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Great report, AshLin! Loved the commentary. I think the English
>> Wikipedia community needs a renewed focus! We should attempt to organize
>> meetups dedicated to the English Wikipedia around the major cities of the
>> country. This is so that we can help young editors who may or may not
>> decide to become long-term contributors - and we shouldn't let that decision
>> be solely based on their online interaction with enwp editors.
>>
>> Konarak Ratnakar has scheduled a Wikimeetup in Ahmedabad on February 19,
>> 2012. He is a new editor who began fairly recently and is currently working
>> on cleaning up the article on [[Gujarat]].
>>
>> Thank you, once again, for helping jumpstart the English community. :-)
>>
>> anirudh
>>
>> 2012/2/15 Ashwin Baindur <
ashlin@wikimedia.in>
>>>
>>> The month of January passed quietly for WikiProject India on English
>>> Wikipedia. However elsewhere, the SOPA/PIPA discussion in the United States
>>> was the hot topic of the month andEnglish Wikipedia went dark on 18 January
>>> for 24 hours in protest against these proposed laws.
>>>
>>> At this point of time, getting the few small initiatives to keep going
>>> have been our concern.
>>>
>>> We have had [[Premchand]] as [[WP:INCOTM]] and [[Mohandas Karamchand
>>> Gandhi]] as GA of the month. Premchand has had substantial improvement. The
>>> GA Master Class ( a hoity-toity name I picked up as an excuse for
>>> periodically giving a few hints on the Wikimedia-in-en list) for Gandhi has
>>> begun and some posts made. GA of the month is a misnomer because despites
>>> lots of edits, there is tremendous amount of work yet to be done on Gandhi.
>>> It seems that we will be doing a GA/FA a quarter instead. :( The new INCOTM
>>> of the month is [[Dance in India]].
>>>
>>> The Offline Wikipedia for Schools project has been dawdling along and we
>>> need people to recommit themselves to this Project. Recently, I realised
>>> that the most important parts of Wikipedia which need doing are not "pop
>>> corn and fast food". They require commitment and seem too much like work.
>>> They are not as much fun as editing on our favourite topics. That fact
>>> perhaps is the reason people begn working on this project and finding it is
>>> not much fun, gradually stop editing. However, lakhs of Indian children
>>> await our output so I'm requesting particiants to return and recommit.
>>>
>>> On the talk page, we have had a discussion since December and through
>>> January into February about whether caste should be mentioned in
>>> biographies. The protagonists quoting [[WP:BLP]] and [[WP:V]] took the stand
>>> that caste should not be mentioned unless it has been self-identified by the
>>> person concerned in a reliable source. Some Indian editors contested it
>>> vehemently arguing that caste pervades Indian society and binding strictures
>>> on its mention should not be placed. But when it boiled down to a poll, the
>>> majority of editors stood up for the conservative position i.e. noinclusion
>>> unless self-identified in a reliable source.
>>>
>>> An earlier discussion about which should be the languages that a title of
>>> an article should be translated into in the lead. After lots of discussion,
>>> the discussion was closed as no consensus emerged except that IPA should
>>> definitely be present for pronunciation. In this regard, I think common
>>> sense and not misplaced parochialism should help us decide which all
>>> laguanges the title should be transcribed into in the lead.
>>>
>>> In this month, we saw Swaroop Rao, aka MikeLynch or Lynch7 as he
>>> masquerades nowadays become an admin. That is great.
>>>
>>> However, I am seeing more activity overall on English Wikipedia from the
>>> habitual editors - which is a very good sign. Young former CAs are playing
>>> up too but the spectre of exams had made its presence known by end January.
>>> All in all, a fairly okay month for WikiProject India.
>>>
>>> AshLin
>>>
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