Hi all,

There's a new gift from Pulkit Gupta for Wikipedia's tenth birthday. A few days back, he got in touch with me through a common friend.

As a regular reader of technical articles in English Wikipedia, Pulkit saw the big shortage in the coverage of academicians in India.

He wanted to fix it and had ideas for collecting data about professors to create articles. I pointed him to the relevant policy pages on notability etc., and helped him create a Wikiproject at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_MiniBiography_of_Indian_Professors. He has done a lot more groundwork forming a team of volunteers and enlisting the support of his professor at IIT-B to objectively frame notability guidelines.

Let us welcome Pulkit and please support the WikiProject and help them reach 100% coverage in the coming year.

Cheers,

Sundar