Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-14 Thread Jessie Wild
On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project (worldwide, not just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyone

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-07 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Hi again, Thanks to Anirudh for giving me the help-needed template. One wikipedian has reached out and helped: Hi Nikhilsheth - I've created this tool for you at [1]http://toolserver.org/%7Edcoetzee/permalinks/. Leave a message on my talk pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dcoetzeeif you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-01 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Greetings All, Does anybody know how to extract the permalink of the latest revision of a wikipedia article - FAST and in bulk? Request for a tool to any developers out there: Please create a tool such that if I input a list of titles (all of which are wikipedia articles) - separated by comma or

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Ravishankar
Note: By 'we' I am referring to the persons actively and voluntarily taking part in this project, not the naysayers. As of now only Ashlin seems to have done any effort at all - hence all the others who have raised some concern or the other while loosely but visibly alleging that wikipedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nikhil, I register my strong objection for this. There are various concerns even if the content is children friendly: 1. The content should be free of typos, factual errors. If a school teacher browses through

[Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-09 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hello friends, Article selection for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version has begun. I have started selecting articles. I chose Geography as a relatively uncontroversial topic to begin with. The first items added were the states union territories - uncontroversial, just added them