Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-20 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hi HPN, On 21 May 2014 08:21, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > Perhaps we should hear more from the fellow Wikimedians who're neutral and > friends on Kannada Wikipedia mailing list who're neutral to assess the > actual impact than from CIS's partners (Christ College as on this thread, > for instance).

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-20 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
As a sysop, significant contributor and presently an avid observer on Kannada Wikipedia, I can say that it is true that the user activity has returned to pre-education programme levels within a month or faster than that. In fact, there has not been considerable increase in quality or momentum on pa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-20 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On 20 May 2014 21:24, Ravishankar wrote: [...] Indian Wikimedia community is a self-regulating one and it had spoken up in > the past whenever appropriate to keep its dignity and integrity intact. > > So let us focus on the real issues instead of viewing the community with > the following attitud

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-20 Thread Ravishankar
Pranesh, Thanks for acknowledging that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/The-solipsist belongs to you. None of the community members and FDC knew about the popular existence of the user name The Solipsist and that is the reason HPN highlighted that it is a new account in Met

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata and items without articles

2014-05-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, An empty item is different from an item without sitelink. See WD:N for a view of the criteria. In short : there may be data statements about the item, it might be notable if it is clearly referring to an identifiable entity in the real world, and an ab

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata and items without articles

2014-05-20 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Gerard, when I was really active back in 2012, I remember a WMDE employee stating that such decisions are made by the community and not by WMDE. I have asked for clarification on the Project Chat. As for empty data items; please read the notabilty policy. An article is notable if it satisfies any