[Wikimediaindia-l] Blocked Wikipedia Page :: Indian Internet Censorship

[Naveen Francis]

Hi Srikanth,

As we all know the collaborative work at WP:IND project has reduced; we need
to kick start from small initiatives.

With some small tasks we can start collaborative work in departments and
sub-wikiprojects in WP:IND.

For *photography
department<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Photography>
*we can cleanup following category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_India
Some of the articles already have photographs even then they are tagged
wrongly.

For *assessment
department<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment>
* we can start something similar to the below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%26_Assess_2008
We have now about 20000 articles assessed.

Thanks,
Naveen Francis



On 28 October 2011 02:10, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was going through the "CIS analysis on DIT response to RTI on blocking"
> [1] and found a mention of Sukhbir Singh Badal[2] article was on block
> list by DIT on  11.08.2010 by Principal Secretary to Govt. of Punjab.[3]
> There is no block currently on the page(atleast by my ISP).
>
> I just did some quick look on history on the page.I could find loads on
> BLP tags being hit particularly with severe edit activity around Oct
> 2010,with some targeted activity by a single UK based IP editor and many
> other anons editing mainly on corruption charges.The same IP user also tried
> blanking the page(possibly legally or otherwise threatened else why would
> someone adding charges against a person blank the page?) more than once and
> those edits were reverted much like any other page blanking. Interestingly
> there was nothing apart from templates by bots on the talk page. So this was
> a pure case of party crook editors fighting each other, and not even like
> what happens on the caste articles(much worse!).
>
> Leaving aside the censorship, since I am not bothered about it much, this
> episode suggests more attention is required for WP:INDIA project and lack of
> enough volunteers to maintain a large article base of 1.5 lakh+ pages. Yet
> another case exposing the "English Wikipedia Community" in India which IMHO
> is not doing so well when compared to few other Indic communities. About
> time we realize and move from the popular opinion that Indic communities are
> the only malnutrition-ed children and English Wikipedia is hale and healthy.
>
> There are people running around proposing Policy guidelines specific to
> India (like a guideline for caste, much like BLP) and whole lot of things to
> break the "so called" systemic bias. I dont subscribe to that view, but
> wondering what can we do help make English Wikipedia a healthy child in
> India.
>
> [1]
> http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-dit-response-2nd-rti-blocking
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhbir_Singh_Badal
> [3]
> http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/dit-response-2nd-rti-blocking
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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