[Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

[Ashwin Baindur]

Naveen, I think COTM is not the place where red links can be developed into
stubs, start of even B class articles.

The final outcome that we can hope for is that certain articles are :
* Raised to FA/GA quality if not status  (or at least)
* Get improved by numerous edits (or at least)
* Get improved due to numerous eye balls.

The articles most likely to succeed are :
* articles in the news
* articles about popular subjects
* articles about topics where large number of editors are interested
* articles about subjects which people feel are important enough to get off
their butts and edit
* articles people feel passionate about

That is why I think the waterway articles never took off. Look, even today
nobody from WikiProject India - Transportation has converted them into stub
or start. Can we ask for that to be done on "operational immediate" basis
(fauji lingo for 'urgent') as a start?

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com> wrote:

> It may not work :(
> Tried earlier
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month
>
> --
> naveenpf
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Now, I want to raise another point. Do we really have the wherewithal for
>> a 5 article collaboration? I think that is too optimistic, perhaps we
>> should have a two article collaboration to begin with each month?
>>
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Naveen, I believe INCOTM is happening after two and a half years.
>>>> Remember Transport in India ???
>>>>
>>>
>>> Very much; We need to do similar collaborative efforts to make more GAs
>>> in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INTI
>>>
>>> To everyone else, this is an excellent opportunity to start and get a
>>>> good section of high quality India articles.
>>>> This has been VERY successful in the past, as I have PERSONALLY seen. I
>>>> once nominated Transport in India, and a month later, three of us managed
>>>> to get it upto a GA level.
>>>> --Regards,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1,
>>>>> After a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>>>> ashwin.baindur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please consider nominating<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Nominations>articles for Collaboration of the Month (COTM).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Nominations
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Upto 5 articles can be selected for the COTM so plenty of scope
>>>>>> available for nomination of the month. It is proposed to close nominations
>>>>>> on 30 November 2011 and selections for month of December 2011 made from
>>>>>> whatever we have. As of now, two are promising candidates - Mullaperiyar
>>>>>> dam and Manmohan Singh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So dont be shy, be bold, nominate an article. Your favourite article
>>>>>> could get a new lease of life from collaboration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ashwin Baindur
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>>>
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