Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
Photos!!! :D
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth arjun.mangol@gmail.com wrote:
Photos!!! :D
Yes. Will add photos.
Working on a photo walk aka wikipedia takes kanchi. Discussing with friends.
But, what about adding the information in the books like temple history, holy events, special features etc ?
Shall we add all the information from the books?
Obviously! Add as much relevant info about temples to existing articles on Wikipedia, else make new articles if not created yet. Brief History, famous events, festivals, architecture (tamil temples are known for it eh!) any particular rituals if any, temple adminstration etc. Try and make it a subproject under Wikiproject Hinduism! - Wikiproject Temples that can include temples even in and outside india, My uncle has made a website about all the Kerala temples, I could help too :)
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth arjun.mangol@gmail.com wrote:
Photos!!! :D
Yes. Will add photos.
Working on a photo walk aka wikipedia takes kanchi. Discussing with friends.
But, what about adding the information in the books like temple history, holy events, special features etc ?
Shall we add all the information from the books?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples_in_India As you can see, more than half the links are not available. We need a good no. of people, atleast one from every state, to chip in what they can.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth <arjun.mangol@gmail.com
wrote:
Obviously! Add as much relevant info about temples to existing articles on Wikipedia, else make new articles if not created yet. Brief History, famous events, festivals, architecture (tamil temples are known for it eh!) any particular rituals if any, temple adminstration etc. Try and make it a subproject under Wikiproject Hinduism! - Wikiproject Temples that can include temples even in and outside india, My uncle has made a website about all the Kerala temples, I could help too :)
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth arjun.mangol@gmail.com wrote:
Photos!!! :D
Yes. Will add photos.
Working on a photo walk aka wikipedia takes kanchi. Discussing with friends.
But, what about adding the information in the books like temple history, holy events, special features etc ?
Shall we add all the information from the books?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration: If the book is copyrighted in a way that doesn't allow free reuse, and most books are like this, then you cannot copy from it word by word, but you can write the same information in your own words.
I found quite a lot of articles about Hindu temples in the English Wikipedia, but obviously there are many more that you could write. And you could also write articles about temples in your native language (Tamil?)
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2012/1/12 Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com:
Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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... And, you can also improve the current articles about temples just by adding references to external sources to confirm the information that is already written in the article. For example, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marudamalai is reasonable long and has beautiful photos, but there are no references or footnotes, so the reader has no way to verify that the information is correct. After you add the references, you can remove the template at the top that says "This article does not cite any references or sources".
And the corresponding article in Tamil ( http://tawp.in/r/6b7 ) is very short, so you could expand it.
-- Amir
2012/1/12 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration: If the book is copyrighted in a way that doesn't allow free reuse, and most books are like this, then you cannot copy from it word by word, but you can write the same information in your own words.
I found quite a lot of articles about Hindu temples in the English Wikipedia, but obviously there are many more that you could write. And you could also write articles about temples in your native language (Tamil?)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2012/1/12 Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com:
Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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I know I keep going back to this, but I think its really important to involve the temples themselves - I got the Swaminarayan temple website admin to give me a blanket OTRS email in 2008 that Iv used to upload 200+ images to Commons. These images are of temples across 5 continents - getting them ourselves would have been a really difficult task otherwise.
I suggest you contact the temple trusts to donate pics and info to Wikipedia - most of them (if not all) are run by Public Chartiable Trusts and should be happy to help - after all Wikipedia articles on their temples promote them in a way.
From: amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:21:27 +0200 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books
... And, you can also improve the current articles about temples just by adding references to external sources to confirm the information that is already written in the article. For example, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marudamalai is reasonable long and has beautiful photos, but there are no references or footnotes, so the reader has no way to verify that the information is correct. After you add the references, you can remove the template at the top that says "This article does not cite any references or sources".
And the corresponding article in Tamil ( http://tawp.in/r/6b7 ) is very short, so you could expand it.
-- Amir
2012/1/12 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration: If the book is copyrighted in a way that doesn't allow free reuse, and most books are like this, then you cannot copy from it word by word, but you can write the same information in your own words.
I found quite a lot of articles about Hindu temples in the English Wikipedia, but obviously there are many more that you could write. And you could also write articles about temples in your native language (Tamil?)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2012/1/12 Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com:
Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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