I interacted with several people at WCI who have never been part of a GA or FA process.
There is a certain thrill in being part of such a process. From waiting for a reviewer to
agree to the PR/GA/FA review given the backlog can be months long at times to the actual
peer reviews, collaborating with several others including the reviewer and getting things
in place is no childs play. It means several hours of hard work with the process itself
taking weeks at times. The satisfaction one gets at the end of it makes the whole process
worth it.
The bar has now been raised to quite a high level on English Wikipedia and several
WP:India GAs have been demoted in the last few years. IMHO we should concentrate on
bringing these articles on par with todays GA norms - which will be a relatively easier
task given that the article is a former GA. One such example of this being done is the
Mumbai article which was demoted and has now reattained GA status.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:06:18 +0530
From: ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec
2011
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(a)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(a)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
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1,
After a long time.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Please consider nominating
articles for Collaboration of the Month (COTM).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_…
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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