Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread wheredevelsdare
in a way. > From: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:21:27 +0200 > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from > books > > ... And, you can also improve the current articl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
... And, you can also improve the current articles about temples just by adding references to external sources to confirm the information that is already written in the article. For example, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marudamalai is reasonable long and has beautiful photos, but there

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the best kind of contribution to Wikipedia. Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration: If the book is copyrighted in a way that doesn'

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Arjun Mangol Kanoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples_in_India As you can see, more than half the links are not available. We need a good no. of people, atleast one from every state, to chip in what they can. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth wrote: > Obviously! Add as much relev

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Arjun Mangol Kanoth
Obviously! Add as much relevant info about temples to existing articles on Wikipedia, else make new articles if not created yet. Brief History, famous events, festivals, architecture (tamil temples are known for it eh!) any particular rituals if any, temple adminstration etc. Try and make it a subp

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Shrinivasan T
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth wrote: > Photos!!! :D > Yes. Will add photos. Working on a photo walk aka wikipedia takes kanchi. Discussing with friends. But, what about adding the information in the books like temple history, holy events, special features etc ? Shall we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Arjun Mangol Kanoth
Photos!!! :D On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Hi, > > I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram > > It has temples everywhere. > > The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. > But, there are some books

[Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts on adding info about temples from books

2012-01-12 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram It has temples everywhere. The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less. But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram, available in tamil. Shall we upload all the