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	I don't know why you are still insisting on deleting Pradip's article. Can't you see the number of votes which he has recieved from the ordinary people of Kerala. Even though being a Malayali, you have not heard of Pradipettan's greatness. Shame on you. It is people like you who destroy a man's credibility and fame in 10 minutes which took him a lifetime to create. You put your silly opinions on AFD such as google hits and what on but the poor ordinary working class people of Kerala who find relief in the music of such greats such as Pradip will look down upon you. You still see darkness when the light is shining upon you.--] 23:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

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	The guy is a singer and not so famous. But I know him as he was a professor too. he got some awards for contests like "Meri Awaz Suno" conducted at National level in the 90s.
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	Hi! I noticed on your user page that you identify yourself as an admin. Since you aren't an admin, I strongly suggest you remove you the box. ] 19:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
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	About my page in which i made an admin claim, I'm sorry. I just copied that section from another user's page. I line checked the code but i think i may have overseen this. Really sorry if this caused any trouble.
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	I have not issued any legal threats. I only told that I will go to the arbitration committe, not outside wiki. Please re-read my statement there again.I also do not have anything personal against you. You did your job. I did mine. That's all.
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	If you do not have anything against pradip you should learn to stop giving personal remarks even after this issue is over now. I did not ask your opinion again. So why did you say it again? You already made your point there on the discussion page. Now why again say this to me?? Means you still have not got over this issue. There are thousands of such deletion issues here. If we go on taking all as our personal problem we will all be mad one day. After all somasundaran is not related to me or you! Just that I know more about him than you. Please do not work like this. The right thing would have been to counter the opinions there on the discussion page. Saying again and again that "Bush is not the president of the US" will not make it so! I may not want him to be president but he was voted to power by democracy! So that means he is popular. Same here. There are thousands of others who are his fans and know him in Kerala and abroad. If you do not know about him that does not mean that all should stop knowing him. Do not force your opinion on others. Live and let live!
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	So just forget this issue. let's work together for improving the musician related articles here rather than being "paaras" for each other. Already we malayalees have this bad image of having intolerance against one another.
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	'''Happy friendship day Ageo!''' No hard feelings man. Please do not hesitate to seek my help on any issue you might have in future.
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	I also will do the same.
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	God bless you. Amen!
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	No hard feelings man.. I had only one thing that I didnt like.. The way some people, including you, commented that 'I havent heard of him, so delete'. That was the driving power we had to counter. As we know, wiki and internet will not have details unless someone puts it up. As some of the participants did, It is safer to take a neutral stand if you are unaware of it.
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	Anyways, past is past.. lets work together to get things up. I have a small request.. Heard that you had sent personal messages to pradip. Please settle that with him, if it is true. It takes a lot to be a person of his calibre. This is not an embarrassment or something, just a courtesy.
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	Ageo. Thank you for admitting your mistake. This means you are sincere. We are all here to volunteer our free time for something creative. As wiki norms suggest everyone who contributes does so with a good intntion. Even the person who masqueraded as pradip somasundaran might have had good intentions. But he might not have had any details to make the article look good ar stand. So I will blame only the person who immediately put it for deletion instead of giving a call for its updation. But it's just coincidence that I joined here by the end of the fight there. By that time jyothis had already collected lot of info which we all did not know. We should always have an open mind in such cases when celebrities are involved. we may not have the knowneldge in a particular field to make hasty decesions. So wait and watch is the best policy.Also there was nothing improper here too. After all we were not dealing with any objectionable material or matter of utmost importance. Then I also collected details from my available sources and now the article gives a very good picture of the person. This is our job here.I also plan to write abount many such people, as I am in cochin and can get first hand information from them. Anyway past is past. I already told you, I absolutely do not have anything against you. What I fought was for justice and dignity. So just forgive me too if I had bee a little rough. I am not like that personally.
	We will need each other's co-operation again that I have decided to be here for long.Whatever I do will be with sincere intention of expanding the knowledge of people by providing fist hand information even on the tiniest of important things! Thank you. I appreciate your action. Have you visited somasundaram's blog? Great music blog. None of the singers in Kerala have a blog of that kind. You can also leave a nice comment on his blog. God bless you. Amen.
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	Ageo worried to see that notice of mental ability...stuff. Hope you are fine. If you are not well I will pray for your sound health.
	God Bless you brother. Amen!
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	Ageo, Thanks. I am relieved that you are well. Chiricheppu does exist. But there are thousands of such magazines here in Kerala. The claims of 50,000 circulation copies may not be true though. See my comments on the deletion page.
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			Hello! Barry Newstead, who was recently hired as the Foundation's chief global development officer, comes to Mumbai 20-21 Sept as part of a weeklong India visit.

			He and I are hoping to meet with wikipedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept eve - informally, to share and discuss the Foundation's plans for India, and to hear from the community on how to boost and strengthen projects in English and other Indian languages.

			Would you be available and interested to meet with us on Mon 20 Sept eve? Please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!

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			== WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010==

	==August Esperanza Newsletter==
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			After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

			Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up ] have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Misplaced Pages editing among the general public. In addition, a to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to was created and launched by ].


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			Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while ] was saved. Meanwhile, ] appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

			The ] and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that ] will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

			The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the ] made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

			In October there was a heated in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of ]'s party symbol images by ] as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

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			*The , which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to ] page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.

			] in ] in June 2010.]]
			*The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by ] to the was completed in October. The words were donated by the ] due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the ] (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of and has earned it a place in the . In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.

			] introduces the Malayalam Misplaced Pages CD of ] during his key note address at ] at Gdansk.]]

			*The ] and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the translation and contribution toolkit developed by ].

			*Malayalam wikimedian ] has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the ], which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian ] coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on .

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			] and ] held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and ] met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, ] also held its first meetup.

			], ] and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.]]

			Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the , with the ] in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the ]. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Misplaced Pages Foundation.

			] & ]. (Recorded by ].)]]

			Misplaced Pages founder ] had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a to members of the public at the ] on October 31, 2010.

			The first ], where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in ] and ] on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in ] also held a meetup the same day.

			The Malayalam Misplaced Pages held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

			Wikimedia Foundation board member ] and Indian Wikipedian ] co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the .

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	# The ''']''' section of the proposals page has been created.
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	# ''']''' Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been ]. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, ] has been created.

	# Two small pieces of '''charter reform''' will be decided on in a straw poll at ]. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
			*] on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
	# Until '''cooperation with the ]''' is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.

	# There is a page for discussing the ''']'''.
			*A ] are underway on the ] of the ] article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.

			*Join the and the for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available ].

			If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

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			== Wikimedia Stories Project ==

			Hello,

			My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Misplaced Pages users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Misplaced Pages - for the 2011 fundraiser.

			I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

			My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

			I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!
	==New Zealander-Israeli relations==
	I noticed you identified yourself as a Wikipedian in ]. You may be interested in ]. Respectfully, ] 23:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

			If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:
	==List of suspected socks of ]==
	*'''Nooranadu mohan'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Fundoomal'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Nileena joseph'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Adv sreekumar'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Harikumarbabu'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Cartoonist jithesh'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''P.C.Sanalkumar.I.A.S'''(] • ] • ])
	*'''Babupaul'''(] • ] • ])

			vgrigas@wikimedia.org
	Its better if we keep an eye on these guys, since all they do is contribute to chiricheppu.--] 00:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

			Thank you for your time!
	Rightly said Ageo. Yo should put the above facts on the AFD page of Chiricheppu, so that all others get know that these so called supporters have nothing to contribute for wiki, other than throwing irresponsible remarks and threats on our user pages.
	] 01:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

			Victor
	:Add ] to it :-) If the issue is serious there is the option for ], but in this case so far the these people have been fairly harmless and have also given us a few good laughs. ] (]) 14:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

			About me:
	== ] ==
			I have been a Misplaced Pages editor since 2005, and have a background in film, video and audio. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Victorgrigas
			== WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest ==

			Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require ], that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
	I saw your comments at ]. I wanted to let you know that I have added some references to the artice ], so I hope that it is better now. ] (] \| ] 05:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

			As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a ] drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
	== Barnstar of Diligence ==

			If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from ].
	Thank you vey much for the Barnstar. Of course, I wish that my work saving articles from deletion wasn't necessary. I wish nominators wouldn't be so hasty with nominations for problem articles. Often, a bad article can be salvaged with a little research and copy-editing. ] (] \| ] 11:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
			] will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

			You can sign up on the ]. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
	== Happy New Year! ==

			{{User0\|ssriram_mt}} & {{User0\|AshLin}} (Drive coordinators)
	ചിങ്ങമാസം വന്നേ.....ഓണം ഇനി ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ മാത്രം അകലെ... ഈ കാത്തിരിപ്പിനും ഒരു സുഖം.....പുതുവല്‍സരാശംസകള്‍ നേരുന്നു....ഈ വര്‍ഷം സന്തോഷങ്ങളും ഐശ്വര്യങ്ങളും നിറഞ്ഞതായിരിക്കെട്ടെ എന്നാശംസിക്കുന്നു--]<sup>a.k.a.D<font color="green">]</font>epu<font color="white"> </font>Joseph \|<font color="green">]</font></sup>14:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Misplaced Pages, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

What's New?

Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

Current proposals and discussions

Please add Misplaced Pages talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.

A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Misplaced Pages articles. Please participate and add your comments.

Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.

Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Misplaced Pages by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.

A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.

Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.

The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Misplaced Pages is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.

Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Looking forward toward more contributions from you!

Complete To Do List

India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w

Requests: Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati, Akhand Pratap Singh, Ravindra Gujjula Irrigation in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai, More...

NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More...

Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More...

Cleanup: articles on castes, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Bangaru Adigalar, Medical college (India), More...

Merge: Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...

Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri More...

Stubs: Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More...

Translate: Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles

Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More...

Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria

Other requests:

- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template

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Signed...

SBC-YPR (Editor)
Sodabottle (Editor)
Tinu Cherian (Distributor)

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Meeting in Mumbai 20 Sept

Hello! Barry Newstead, who was recently hired as the Foundation's chief global development officer, comes to Mumbai 20-21 Sept as part of a weeklong India visit.

He and I are hoping to meet with wikipedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept eve - informally, to share and discuss the Foundation's plans for India, and to hear from the community on how to boost and strengthen projects in English and other Indian languages.

Would you be available and interested to meet with us on Mon 20 Sept eve? Please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!

Bishdatta (talk) 13:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

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Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3

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A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Misplaced Pages will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 You are invited to attend. Best Regards. Angpradesh (talk) 08:23, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Move vandalism

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Misplaced Pages editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.

What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List

India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w

Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More...

NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More...

Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More...

Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More...

Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...

Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More...

Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More...

Translate: Bhojpuri Misplaced Pages articles, Maithili Misplaced Pages articles, Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles

Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More...

Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria

Other requests:

- Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India
- Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template

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News from Indian-language Wikipedias

The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.

The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.

Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Misplaced Pages CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.

The Hindi Misplaced Pages and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.

Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Misplaced Pages CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Misplaced Pages Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Misplaced Pages Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Misplaced Pages founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Misplaced Pages meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Misplaced Pages held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions

Please add Misplaced Pages talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.

Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!

This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.

Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Signed...

SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors)

Tinucherian (Distributor)

This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

Looking forward to more contributions from you!

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Stories Project

Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Misplaced Pages users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Misplaced Pages - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!

If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Thank you for your time!

Victor

About me: I have been a Misplaced Pages editor since 2005, and have a background in film, video and audio. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Victorgrigas

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

ssriram_mt (talk) & AshLin (talk) (Drive coordinators)

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