[Wikimediaindia-l] Special focus discussion on Marathi Wikipedia with Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Rahul Deshmukh and Mandar Kulkarni during India Wikiconference.....

2011-11-27 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Dear All, Pl. find below link of Special focus discussion on Marathi Wikipedia in today's Tech Guru on IBN Lokmat {Telecast Saturday(26/11/2011) at 7.30 pm and sunday 10.30 am (27/11/2011)} with Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Rahul Deshmukh and Mandar Kulkarni during India Wikiconference.  

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 92

2011-11-27 Thread Gunjan Verma
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 93

2011-11-27 Thread Gunjan Verma
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikihi-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wikipedias - Hindi

2011-11-27 Thread Ashwin Baindur
*An anonymous editor made this remark in Shiju's post: **I think a thousand short, unreferenced and well-formatted articles are better than a million long, translated articles translated from English Wikipedia.* I think that the editor meant well but has not correctly understood the importance

[Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

2011-11-27 Thread Ashwin Baindur
This is a letter to all Indian editors of the English Wikipedia requesting discussion, cooperation and help. Recently I was asked to give a three to four minute presentation on the state of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia for the session on state of Indic Wikipedias at the recently

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

2011-11-27 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Ashwin, This is a known fact for a while. The number of active English editors working on English articles [India ones], improving the articles, adding citations, fixing grammar has gone down significantly in the last two years. Besides this, there are a lot of so called Indian editors who claim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] People of stature unhappy with own articles

2011-11-27 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Yes there is. direct them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTOPROB#Problems_in_an_article_about_you But they shouldn't be expecting wikipedia to do a whitewashing / PR fluff job on it. Sometimes, if they are actually trying to remove negative material about them (and there is a ton of