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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Thanks, Anirudh!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, 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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+1 and add my thanks to AshLin. I was just discussing the question Anirudh raises with the India Programs team 12 hours ago. There are different discussions to be had wrt helping young/new editors integrate into the en:wp community. It would be good to pilot some localized outreach/mentorship approaches to see what works (and then share that across the country and beyond).
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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Hi,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Barry Newstead bnewstead@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 and add my thanks to AshLin. I was just discussing the question Anirudh raises with the India Programs team 12 hours ago. There are different discussions to be had wrt helping young/new editors integrate into the en:wp community. It would be good to pilot some localized outreach/mentorship approaches to see what works (and then share that across the country and beyond).
I you have any plans in mind, please let us know. We will take it up further through the chapter SIGs.
Regards -Sudhanwa
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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I do firmly believe in the need for enthusing young/new editors to stay on board. I'd be glad to help out. At the moment we have a lot of young folk in the Wikipedia Pune Club an informal interaction seems the best way to mentor them. Its a pleasure to interact with them & they are very helpful.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa.com@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Barry Newstead bnewstead@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 and add my thanks to AshLin. I was just discussing the question
Anirudh
raises with the India Programs team 12 hours ago. There are different discussions to be had wrt helping young/new editors integrate into the
en:wp
community. It would be good to pilot some localized outreach/mentorship approaches to see what works (and then share that across the country and beyond).
I you have any plans in mind, please let us know. We will take it up further through the chapter SIGs.
Regards -Sudhanwa
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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