[Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 06:05:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing
> we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on
> wikimediaindia-I?
>

+1

We should wait for significantly more traffic on discussions around
India-related articles on the English Wikipedia before considering the
creation of a new mailing list.

anirudh


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> From: tinucherian at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:18:30 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination
> of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.
>
>
> My first preference goes for something on the lines of  "wikimedia-in-eng" ,
> basically a list for the Indian Wikipedian community contributing to
> en.wiki and other English Wikimedia projects.
>
> "wikiproject-india-en"  was in case there is much "opposition" to "oh , we
>  already have a English Wikipedia list  " :)
>
> Either of the name, I am personally ok, the purpose remains the same :D
>
> -Tinu Cherian
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hmmm, my stand has been that the union set of english Wikipedians in India
> with WikiProject India article space also forms another genuine indic
> language community - especially since English is the secondary official
> language of our nation. In that case. the community must have a list of its
> own.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> psubhashish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMO  "wikiproject-india-en" speaks for itself and would be good.
>
> regards
> Subha
>
> On 30 November 2011 05:50, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in
> India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject
> India on en.wiki is out of scope on wikimediaindia-l and its subscribers.
> While most of the Indian language Wikipedia have their separate mailing
> lists, co-ordination & collaboration among the Indian
> Wikimedians contributing to English Wikipedia has become the most
> difficult. English Wikipedia mailing list "wikien-l" is too boarder scope
> of discussing them.
>    I am aware that we have "too many lists", but it is expected as the
> community grows in size and creation of separate lists is justified as long
> as we have enough activity on/around it. I am of the opinion that
> India-related content and community of Indian Wikipedians on English
> Wikipedia is as equally important to grow as Indic language Wikipedias.
>
> In this context, I would propose the creation of a "wikimedia-in-eng" or
> "wikiproject-india-en" mailing list.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place
> here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on
> their watchlist.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas <
> pradeep.mohandas at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much
> discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there
> are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the
> lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for.
>
>
> +1.
>
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep
>
> User:Prad2609
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530
> From: parakara.ghoda at gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA
>
>
> I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking
> itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one.
> --Re,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:IN<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3aIN>for these? :)
>
>
> Swaroop Rao
> (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aMikeLynch>)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for
> English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too
> think that is a good idea.
>
> Shiju
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Is that what you mean, Srikanth?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content
>
> I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ashwin,
> I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own.
> Re,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army
> general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject
> India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are
> now down another FA.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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