Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Wikipedia-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-21 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Please note that the sign up is open only from * 22:00 UTC, Wednesday, March 23.* Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > A great opportunity (in the forwarded email) for people who work on adding > references to articles often. Please signup and enrich m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Deletion (aka genocide) of articles

2011-03-21 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Hi Mayur, Please elaborate on whether by one word article you mean articles with one word in the title, or with one word in the whole article? If the former, please justify the rationale. Why should a person who can only read Hindi be barred from reading an article on a one-word object, like aer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Deletion (aka genocide) of articles

2011-03-21 Thread mayur
Hi, My meaning was for "article with one word in the whole article", you can check here http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=8such avoided articles. nearly 99% of them are vandalized articles. When anybody try to cr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Deletion (aka genocide) of articles

2011-03-21 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
The comparison with India article in March 2001 is irrelevant , IMHO. That was 2001, less than 2 months after Wikipedia was born. We have come a long way and changed in last 10 years. :) Sorry, No pun intended. Having said that, I don't personally believe in blind deletion of short articles, havin

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Webinar on editing for Wikipedia Women

2011-03-21 Thread Bishakha Datta
I really liked both the idea and the way it was worded. Any takers for an Indian webinar along similar lines? Cheers Bishakha -- Forwarded message -- From: Frances Kissling Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:35 PM Subject: [Gendergap] Webinar on editing for Wikipedia Women To: gender..

[Wikimediaindia-l] Julian Assange (Wikileaks) on Wikipedia, India donations

2011-03-21 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
...Julian Assange (Wikileaks) on Wikipedia , India donations in an interview to [[The Hindu]] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1559476.ece *Data has just come out that the people of India have been among the largest donors of Wikipedia, maybe even WikiLeaks. That data has not leaked