<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">This WikiProject is to coordinate the efforts to create, enhance and populate the coverage of topics related to India including her history, geography, culture, society, people, infrastructure, education, demographics and anything related between India and other fields such as science, technology, arts, entertainment etc."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Excellent! I am extremely happy to see it. I do not know how much I will be able to help, but I will try to help as per my time and abilities. </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Dr. Abhijeet Safai</div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:46 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:viswaprabha@gmail.com" target="_blank">viswaprabha@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_7511994330147039265gmail-docs-internal-guid-41b141b2-6364-f57c-cdb7-4ea03d09e037"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_7511994330147039265gmail-docs-internal-guid-41b141b2-6364-f57c-cdb7-4ea03d09e037"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Wikimedians,<br><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_7511994330147039265gmail-docs-internal-guid-41b141b2-6364-f57c-cdb7-4ea03d09e037"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">As the month long country-wide Wikidata Training Tour by Asaf Bartov [*1] is in progress through several communities and cities within India, the term 'Wikidata' has started rolling out as a new technology buzzword among Indian communities and media. <br>Choosing the occasion as most befitting, some of us have opened up a new WikiProject portal on the Wikidata site, named </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">WikiProject India.<br><br></span>The page link is <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/<wbr>Wikidata:WikiProject_India</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This WikiProject is to coordinate the efforts to create, enhance and populate the coverage of topics related to India including her history, geography, culture, society, people, infrastructure, education, demographics and anything related between India and other fields such as science, technology, arts, entertainment etc.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For now, an indicative list of topics of immediate interest are mentioned in the homepage. As the project grow up and get better shape, we can expand the scope of the project both vertically and horizontally.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> A query library demonstrating some data drilling methods and samples is also available there. Together, we can also build up this library to its best form and beauty.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">An inspiring model to this venture was WikiProject Armenia (<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Armenia" target="_blank">https://www.wikidata.org/<wbr>wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_<wbr>Armenia</a>), which began around a year ago. We may fork and develop upon some of the work show-cased there, including the model queries.<br> (Building new queries based upon these are quite easy even for a beginner!)<br><br></span></font></p><font size="2"></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I invite all of you too visit the project homepage.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/<wbr>Wikidata:WikiProject_India</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Are you interested to be among the pioneers of this project? <br>Do you want to be part of a team that will build up a great national database that will eventually help at least one fifth of the world population in so many ways that we can not even predict now?<br><br>If you do, if you are interested in editing and contributing to Wikidata, then please sign up and join the project. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="m_7511994330147039265gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">More questions and suggestions are welcome at the project's talk pages.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Thanks and regards,</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2">User:Viswaprabha</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2">*1 . </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Asaf's Indian path of Wikidata conquest can be seen here: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_%28WMF%29/2017_Technical_trainings_in_India" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/2017_<wbr>Technical_trainings_in_India</a> <br></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span></font></font></span></p></div>
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