Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
Yes Subhashish, It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia projects style of domain name). -RK On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: It is not a WMF project, and it's a copyrighted site also. Subha On 22 November 2011 10:50, Vaishak Kallore vaikoov...@gmail.com wrote: What about the wikidrugs.org? It uses the wikipedia logo too... On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list of drugs? What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months. A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward. 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia. Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it. Regards User: Netha Hussain On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information. http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://www.webmd.com I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by my doctor. collected lots of info from various sources and added to wikipedia. And I was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I visit a doctor. later my article was deleted quoting advertising of my own product. I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding composition, use, side effects of each drug. Incubation of such project would be helpful. I found the following website which use wikipedia's logo too. I am sure this is nothing to do with wikimedia foundation project. (see the copyright in the bottom) http://wikidrugs.org/ It is imitation of wikipedia. -- Thanks Regards, A.Radha Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna -- Netha Hussain *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Best Regards Vaishak Kallore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
[Wikimediaindia-l] Media Issue
Hey all, Check out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qquzVg4iido. Wait towards the end and you'll have some news about how a call center employee in Scotland and how he claimed to be a War hero. They mentioned nothing of WP:NOTEhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Noteor of our stringent standards. Just wanted to know all your comments on it, that's all. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
This is something worth exploring. The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp considering they may keep on getting them updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section under wikipedia. Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go. Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list of drugs? What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months. A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward. 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (?) viswapra...@gmail.com mailto:viswapra...@gmail.com User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com mailto:nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia. Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it. Regards User: Netha Hussain On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com mailto:radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information. http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://www.webmd.com I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by my doctor. collected lots of info from various sources and added to wikipedia. And I was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I visit a doctor. later my article was deleted quoting advertising of my own product. I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding composition, use, side effects of each drug. Incubation of such project would be helpful. I found the following website which use wikipedia's logo too. I am sure this is nothing to do with wikimedia foundation project. (see the copyright in the bottom) http://wikidrugs.org/ It is imitation of wikipedia. -- Thanks Regards, A.Radha Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna -- Netha Hussain *nethahussain.blogspot.com http://nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com http://swethaambari.wordpress.com*
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Geographical distribution of Indian Wikipedians
Why not use a map like the ones in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:CW , http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Brasiland http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Portugal? There are a similar map to India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_78.40398E_20.74980N.jpg (if you don't want to use a satelite image there is a locator map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-locator-map-blank.svg and a map with the states of India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.svg / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.png ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 22 November 2011 12:20, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please add your name in the below link http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Cheers! Jayanta ___ Wikimedia-BD mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Subhashish, It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia projects style of domain name). RK: Can you send a email to legal...@wikimedia.org about the above issue. Thanks Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
hi, I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here. warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609 -- Forwarded message -- From: Frankly Idontcare idontcarefran...@yahoo.com Date: 22 November 2011 18:50 Subject: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia To: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com Dear Pradeep Mohandas, I got your e-mail address from your user page on wikipedia. I understand that you were involved in the Wikipedia conference that was held in Mumbai in November 2011. This should mean that you are part of Wikipedia. I have to bring to your attention, an issue, that has been bothering me from a long time. There are a few administrators on Wikipedia who legally vandalise pages related to India and block anyone who disagrees with their point of view. (POV) For example, if you view the India article on Wikipedia, you will notice that the introduction does not do justice to what is arguably the greatest civilization in world history. It is heavily biased and doesn't mention the fact that India is the oldest and the oldest continuing civilization in history. It doesn't mention the fact that India is an emerging superpower. The page is being constantly monitored and vandalised by a group of users/administrators who seem to have an inherent bias towards India. I tried editing the page, but was unable to do so because of the following users: Fowlerfowler, Saravask, Quigley, Elockid and ElockidAlternate. Of all the mentioned users, Fowlerfowler and Elockid ( ElockidAlternate is his alternate account) are by FAR, the worst. they seem to have something against India and Indians. Fowlerfowler has continually uploaded offensive images in the demographics and economy sectionof the India article and made disparaging remarks about India and Indians! He is an administrator!! Moving on to Elockid and ElockidAlternate (same user with another account). Go through the Economic History of India article. Under GDP Estimate, the following sentence was deleted by ElockidAlternate: According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book ''The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective'', India had the world's largest economy from the first to the 18th century, with a (32.9%) share of world [[GDP]] in the 1st century to (28.9%) in 1000 AD, and in 1700 AD with (24.4%). refThe World Economy: Historical Statistics, Angus Maddison/ref and this sentence was replaced by: According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD: essays in macro-economic history, India had the world's largest economy during the years 1 AD and 1000 AD Now, let me tell you how this is wrong on SO many levels:1) The first statement is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT and the book clearly mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the eighteenth century! 2) In the book Contours of the world economy, the author clearly mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the 16th century and in the 17th century! the sentence uploaded by Elockid or ElockidAlternate is wrong! I have tried to correct this error and I got blocked for being a sockpuppet, even though i am not! I tried reporting on the Vandalism noticeboard, but i got blocked from editing the vandalism noticeboard!!! Is there anyway I can alert Jimmy Wales about the constant anti - Indian editing by some administrators on Wikipedia? Also, is there any way you can correct these edits, cuz a lot of people may be exposed to this misinformation! Please get back to me. Regards,Frustrated editor! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
i am working as pharmacist in kerala govt service for the last 20 years..i think we can do a lot in this subject On 22 November 2011 19:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Subhashish, It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia projects style of domain name). RK: Can you send a email to legal...@wikimedia.org about the above issue. Thanks Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
As a user of drug, I only know drugs by commercial name (say calpol). But may not know if you tell about paracetamal. If doctor refers calpol, I would come to wiki project and search for calpol to understand what my doctor prescribed about. -RK On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Abhilash abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: This is something worth exploring. The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp considering they may keep on getting them updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section under wikipedia. Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go. Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list of drugs? What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months. A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward. 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia. Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it. Regards User: Netha Hussain On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information. http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://www.webmd.com I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by my doctor. collected lots of info from various sources and added to wikipedia. And I was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I visit a doctor. later my article was deleted quoting advertising of my own product. I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding composition, use, side effects of each drug. Incubation of such project would be helpful. I found the following website which use wikipedia's logo too. I am sure this is nothing to do with wikimedia foundation project. (see the copyright in the bottom) http://wikidrugs.org/ It is imitation of wikipedia. -- Thanks Regards, A.Radha Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna -- Netha Hussain *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:07, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here. I seriously dont think this mailing list is a venue for content debates. if a user has content debates, he must approach the existing structures within the community like (ARBCOM, Mediation) in case of content disputes and ANI in case of complaints against specific users / other issues. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
Hello RK Agreed However, if its not very famous or if the brandname (eg here calpol or fepanil etc) is being used to identify a generic drug by the general public, capturing the list of names out there in the market would be pretty difficult. We can probably include all those possible and known brand names, but would have to probably expand on the scientific or generic drug or chemical name (which is always given in the blister pack or bottle or container) Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 10:16 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally wrote: As a user of drug, I only know drugs by commercial name (say calpol). But may not know if you tell about paracetamal. If doctor refers calpol, I would come to wiki project and search for calpol to understand what my doctor prescribed about. -RK On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Abhilash abhilashu...@gmail.com mailto:abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: This is something worth exploring. The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp considering they may keep on getting them updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section under wikipedia. Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go. Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list of drugs? What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months. A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward. 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (?) viswapra...@gmail.com mailto:viswapra...@gmail.com User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com mailto:nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia. Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it. Regards User: Netha Hussain On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com mailto:radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
Correction for WikiConference wars read WikiConference sessions. As you can see from my edit history, I was heavily involved in editting Indo-Pak wars a little while ago and the word slipped out. Let me confirm there were no wars in the WikiConference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, most of you know me by my user id, AshLin or have met me in the WikiConference wars. I must ask editor's to not get duly influenced by one editor's response. If Frustrated Editor has issues, let him take Fowlerfowler to ANI or to India Noticeboard. Fowlerfowler has on the whole maintained a neutral, representative and high quality India. He has gone to great trouble to get highly reliable sources, wonderful images and good language on India article. Frustrated Editor is completely anonymous, while that may be permitted on Wikipedia, he is not visible to stand by his statements to this community, he remains cloaked in anonymity, he has NOT given his own user id. Statements like India is It is heavily biased and doesn't mention the fact that India is the oldest and the oldest continuing civilization in history is completely POV, nor does he give reliable source citations to support his claim. The emerging superpower crap is another of the urban legends people want to add. Only one example is given stated out of context. Fowler has shortened it as per the tone of the article. If the user feels so concerned about it, let him reveal himself on India Noticeboard article talk page take it up for discussing. BTW canvassing is against Wikipedia policies too. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here. warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609 -- Forwarded message -- From: *Frankly Idontcare* idontcarefran...@yahoo.com Date: 22 November 2011 18:50 Subject: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia To: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com Dear Pradeep Mohandas, I got your e-mail address from your user page on wikipedia.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User%3aPrad2609 I understand that you were involved in the Wikipedia conference that was held in Mumbai in November 2011. This should mean that you are part of Wikipedia. I have to bring to your attention, an issue, that has been bothering me from a long time. There are a few administrators on Wikipedia who legally vandalise pages related to India and block anyone who disagrees with their point of view. (POV) For example, if you view the Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India article on Wikipedia, you will notice that the introduction does not do justice to what is arguably the greatest civilization in world history. It is heavily biased and doesn't mention the fact that India is the oldest and the oldest continuing civilization in history. It doesn't mention the fact that India is an emerging superpower. The page is being constantly monitored and vandalised by a group of users/administrators who seem to have an inherent bias towards India. I tried editing the page, but was unable to do so because of the following users: Fowlerfowlerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler , Saravask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aSaravask, Quigleyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aQuigley, Elockid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidand ElockidAlternatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate. Of all the mentioned users, Fowlerfowlerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler and Elockid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockid ( ElockidAlternate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate is his alternate account) are by FAR, the worst. they seem to have something against India and Indians. Fowlerfowlerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler has continually uploaded offensive images in the demographics and economy sectionof the India article and made disparaging remarks about India and Indians! He is an administrator!! Moving on to Elockid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidand ElockidAlternate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate (same user with another account). Go through the Economic History of India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Indiaarticle. Under GDP Estimate, the following sentence was deleted by ElockidAlternatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate : *According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book ''The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective'', India had the world's largest economy from the first to the 18th century, with
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:25, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Correction for WikiConference wars read WikiConference sessions. As you can see from my edit history, I was heavily involved in editting Indo-Pak wars a little while ago and the word slipped out. Let me confirm there were no wars in the WikiConference. Agreed Colonel. You shouldnt probably be editing wars due to CoI ;) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
hi All those who presented during WCI 2011, please upload their presentations to the below category in commons, Category:WikiConference India 2011 Presentations http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011_Presentations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
My edits are NPOV and open to inspection. I donot edit war. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:25, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Correction for WikiConference wars read WikiConference sessions. As you can see from my edit history, I was heavily involved in editting Indo-Pak wars a little while ago and the word slipped out. Let me confirm there were no wars in the WikiConference. Agreed Colonel. You shouldnt probably be editing wars due to CoI ;) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
hi, Thank you for the timely response. I have not pointed the user to this mailing list yet and have used your text to reply to him. Working on space and astronomy articles, I have been in calm waters (notice the maritime influence) thus far and am not really geared towards addressing such issues on my own. Thanks, Pradeep Mohandas User:Prad2609 From: srik@gmail.com Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:19:16 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:07, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here. I seriously dont think this mailing list is a venue for content debates. if a user has content debates, he must approach the existing structures within the community like (ARBCOM, Mediation) in case of content disputes and ANI in case of complaints against specific users / other issues. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
Done :) On 22 November 2011 22:45, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: hi All those who presented during WCI 2011, please upload their presentations to the below category in commons, Category:WikiConference India 2011 Presentations http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011_Presentations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
Done! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know?
hi, Great to hear Srikanth! Also notice that it sends you to the mobile interface at Wikipedia. Thoughtful! warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas From: srik@gmail.com Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:07:13 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know? * Did you know a lot of useful things were done at the Mediawiki India Hackathon see notes[1] . Thanks to all who made it happen and successful. I am writing about one of the tiniest piece(literally some 10 lines of code) of work done on Day 1 of the hackathon. After the initial interest on @DYKIndia[2], Arunmozhi[3] and myself started working on the DYKAPI[4] sometime back with the aim of creating a perfect API so that app developers can consume it. We are still far away from that perfect state, but as of now it gives a very random fact from 40k + facts stored. So I thought I would do a txtweb plugin to the current API, so that one could use it as a stumble upon on SMS to get random facts and browse to beat boredom. So please try out the didyouknow txtweb app by sending @didyouknow as an SMS to 09243342000 and check it out. There is lot more that can be done and much more scope for more such tools with Wikipedia Zero etc,So if you are interested and have some time, do ping me, I will keep you engaged with work!. I would also write a detailed blogpost on wikimedia.in soon which Arjuna has been requesting me for a while. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#Notes [2] http://twitter.com/DYKIndia[3] http://www.arunmozhi.in/[4] http://github.com/tecoholic/dykapi -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
My presentation on the State of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia has been uploaded to Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:State_of_Indic_Wikipedia_presentations_2011 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Done! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Geographical distribution of Indian Wikipedians
Jayanta, Currently, I am studying in Pune but keep coming back to Kolkata during the holidays. I had a chat with you in the conference, so where exactly do I add my name here?? Currently, I've added it in Maharashtra, but should I also add it in West Bengal, as I want to help conduct Academies in Kolkata also. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use a map like the ones in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:CW , http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Brasiland http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Portugal? There are a similar map to India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_78.40398E_20.74980N.jpg (if you don't want to use a satelite image there is a locator map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-locator-map-blank.svg and a map with the states of India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.svg / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.png ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 22 November 2011 12:20, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please add your name in the below link http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Cheers! Jayanta ___ Wikimedia-BD mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Geographical distribution of Indian Wikipedians
Hello Debanjan, Yes, you can add your name. Even if you are in Pune, you can help coordinating things for Kolkata events. :) On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: Jayanta, Currently, I am studying in Pune but keep coming back to Kolkata during the holidays. I had a chat with you in the conference, so where exactly do I add my name here?? Currently, I've added it in Maharashtra, but should I also add it in West Bengal, as I want to help conduct Academies in Kolkata also. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use a map like the ones in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:CW , http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Brasiland http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Portugal? There are a similar map to India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_78.40398E_20.74980N.jpg (if you don't want to use a satelite image there is a locator map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-locator-map-blank.svg and a map with the states of India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.svg / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.png ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 22 November 2011 12:20, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please add your name in the below link http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Cheers! Jayanta ___ Wikimedia-BD mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Ansuman Giri * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Geographical distribution of Indian Wikipedians
Thanks Beria for sharing such informative links.We shall update that in Hindi Wikipedia. User:Mayur On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use a map like the ones in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:CW , http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Brasiland http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Portugal? There are a similar map to India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_78.40398E_20.74980N.jpg (if you don't want to use a satelite image there is a locator map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-locator-map-blank.svg and a map with the states of India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.svg / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.png ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 22 November 2011 12:20, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please add your name in the below link http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Cheers! Jayanta ___ Wikimedia-BD mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
Dear All, All the presentations from the *State of Wikimedia Communities of India* session are merged (including the below presentation by the English wiki community of India) and the combined PDF is uploaded to Commons. It is available here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_wikimedia_Communities_of_India_2011_November.pdf As you all know this was the first get together of Wikimedia communities of India. It is really nice to understand that we are able to bring together more than 15 Indian wiki communities. Following are the Indian Wiki communities communities participated in the State of Wikimedia Communities of India session (Name of the presenter is also given) 1. Assamese - Swati Singh 2. Bengali - Jayantha Nath 3. English - Ashwin Baindur 4. Gujarati - Dhaval Vyas 5. Hindi - Shiju 6. Kannada - Swaroop Rao 7. Malayalam - Vishwaprabha 8. Marathi - Mandar Kulkarni 9. Nepali - Saroj Dhakal 10. Odia - Subhashish 11. Sanskrit - Swaroop Rao 12. Tamil - Srikanth Lakshmanan 13. Telugu - CB Rao 14. Indian Language Wikipedias in Incubator - Kundan Amithab Urdu, Punjabi, Nepal Bhasha, Pali, Sindhi, and Bhojpuri language wiki communities couldn't participate in the State of Wikimedia Communities of India session either because community is not active, or a community member didn't participated in WCI, or the community were unable to send a presentation slides. But I am sure as we move forward situation will change. Thank you all for contributing to this great show of Wikimedia Communities of India. Shiju On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: My presentation on the State of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia has been uploaded to Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:State_of_Indic_Wikipedia_presentations_2011 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Done! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
We have doctors in every village, town,city. If they can start contributing 1 hour a month, thsi should be pretty easy to do. I agree with you. as you said, we can say calpol contains paracitamal. and xyz. and we can write a big article on paracitamal and the other xyz. -RK On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Abhilash abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello RK Agreed However, if its not very famous or if the brandname (eg here calpol or fepanil etc) is being used to identify a generic drug by the general public, capturing the list of names out there in the market would be pretty difficult. We can probably include all those possible and known brand names, but would have to probably expand on the scientific or generic drug or chemical name (which is always given in the blister pack or bottle or container) Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 10:16 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally wrote: As a user of drug, I only know drugs by commercial name (say calpol). But may not know if you tell about paracetamal. If doctor refers calpol, I would come to wiki project and search for calpol to understand what my doctor prescribed about. -RK On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Abhilash abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: This is something worth exploring. The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp considering they may keep on getting them updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section under wikipedia. Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go. Abhi On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list of drugs? What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months. A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward. 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia. Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it. Regards User: Netha Hussain On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information. http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://www.webmd.com I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by my doctor. collected lots of info from various sources and added to wikipedia. And I was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I visit a doctor. later my article was deleted quoting advertising of my own product. I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations
Done..!! My presentation on *Improving the Wiki UI using AJAX jQuery* is available at : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Improving_the_Wiki_User_Interface_using_AJAX_%26_jQuery.pdf Regards, On 23 November 2011 10:11, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, All the presentations from the *State of Wikimedia Communities of India* session are merged (including the below presentation by the English wiki community of India) and the combined PDF is uploaded to Commons. It is available here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_wikimedia_Communities_of_India_2011_November.pdf As you all know this was the first get together of Wikimedia communities of India. It is really nice to understand that we are able to bring together more than 15 Indian wiki communities. Following are the Indian Wiki communities communities participated in the State of Wikimedia Communities of India session (Name of the presenter is also given) 1. Assamese - Swati Singh 2. Bengali - Jayantha Nath 3. English - Ashwin Baindur 4. Gujarati - Dhaval Vyas 5. Hindi - Shiju 6. Kannada - Swaroop Rao 7. Malayalam - Vishwaprabha 8. Marathi - Mandar Kulkarni 9. Nepali - Saroj Dhakal 10. Odia - Subhashish 11. Sanskrit - Swaroop Rao 12. Tamil - Srikanth Lakshmanan 13. Telugu - CB Rao 14. Indian Language Wikipedias in Incubator - Kundan Amithab Urdu, Punjabi, Nepal Bhasha, Pali, Sindhi, and Bhojpuri language wiki communities couldn't participate in the State of Wikimedia Communities of India session either because community is not active, or a community member didn't participated in WCI, or the community were unable to send a presentation slides. But I am sure as we move forward situation will change. Thank you all for contributing to this great show of Wikimedia Communities of India. Shiju On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: My presentation on the State of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia has been uploaded to Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:State_of_Indic_Wikipedia_presentations_2011 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Done! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | shivansh.b...@gmail.commr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.comSecretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, Newsletter, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics Instrumentation BITS-Pilani. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Subhashish, It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia projects style of domain name). RK: Can you send a email to legal...@wikimedia.org about the above issue. I've been in touch with WMF's legal team and they've confirmed they're looking into and taking action on this. Bishakha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy Wales Keynote -- Community Building the Wiki Way in India
Hi All, I have uploaded Jimmy wales presentation at [0]. His talk is available on Youtube courtesy Star Mahja below. [0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmy_Wales_Wikiconference_India_2011.pdf [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-22NmcTXJI [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RDuV9Vy28 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqtJ5PmP_U [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ4Oykks8sE [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc24_8-G3bE -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Upload your photos from WCI 2011 to Commons
Dear All, Requesting everyone who took photos during WCI 2011 in Mumbai over the weekend, please upload them to the below category on Wikipedia Commons, Category:WikiConference India 2011 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011 Thanks! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
