+1 and add my thanks to AshLin. I was just discussing the question Anirudh raises with the India Programs team 12 hours ago. There are different discussions to be had wrt helping young/new editors integrate into the en:wp community. It would be good to pilot some localized outreach/mentorship approaches to see what works (and then share that across the country and beyond).
Cheers, Barry On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great report, AshLin! Loved the commentary. I think the English > Wikipedia community needs a renewed focus! We should attempt to organize > meetups dedicated to the English Wikipedia around the major cities of the > country. This is so that we can help young editors who may or may not > decide to become long-term contributors - and we shouldn't let that > decision be solely based on their online interaction with enwp editors. > > Konarak Ratnakar has scheduled a Wikimeetup in Ahmedabad on February 19, > 2012. He is a new editor who began fairly recently and is currently > working on cleaning up the article on [[Gujarat]]. > > Thank you, once again, for helping jumpstart the English community. :-) > > anirudh > > 2012/2/15 Ashwin Baindur <ash...@wikimedia.in> > >> The month of January passed quietly for WikiProject India on English >> Wikipedia. However elsewhere, the SOPA/PIPA discussion in the United States >> was the hot topic of the month andEnglish Wikipedia went dark on 18 January >> for 24 hours in protest against these proposed laws. >> >> At this point of time, getting the few small initiatives to keep going >> have been our concern. >> >> We have had [[Premchand]] as [[WP:INCOTM]] and [[Mohandas Karamchand >> Gandhi]] as GA of the month. Premchand has had substantial improvement. The >> GA Master Class ( a hoity-toity name I picked up as an excuse for >> periodically giving a few hints on the Wikimedia-in-en list) for Gandhi has >> begun and some posts made. GA of the month is a misnomer because despites >> lots of edits, there is tremendous amount of work yet to be done on Gandhi. >> It seems that we will be doing a GA/FA a quarter instead. :( The new >> INCOTM of the month is [[Dance in India]]. >> >> The Offline Wikipedia for Schools project has been dawdling along and we >> need people to recommit themselves to this Project. Recently, I realised >> that the most important parts of Wikipedia which need doing are not "pop >> corn and fast food". They require commitment and seem too much like work. >> They are not as much fun as editing on our favourite topics. That fact >> perhaps is the reason people begn working on this project and finding it is >> not much fun, gradually stop editing. However, lakhs of Indian children >> await our output so I'm requesting particiants to return and recommit. >> >> On the talk page, we have had a discussion since December and through >> January into February about whether caste should be mentioned in >> biographies. The protagonists quoting [[WP:BLP]] and [[WP:V]] took the >> stand that caste should not be mentioned unless it has been self-identified >> by the person concerned in a reliable source. Some Indian editors contested >> it vehemently arguing that caste pervades Indian society and binding >> strictures on its mention should not be placed. But when it boiled down to >> a poll, the majority of editors stood up for the conservative position i.e. >> noinclusion unless self-identified in a reliable source. >> >> An earlier discussion about which should be the languages that a title of >> an article should be translated into in the lead. After lots of discussion, >> the discussion was closed as no consensus emerged except that IPA should >> definitely be present for pronunciation. In this regard, I think common >> sense and not misplaced parochialism should help us decide which all >> laguanges the title should be transcribed into in the lead. >> >> In this month, we saw Swaroop Rao, aka MikeLynch or Lynch7 as he >> masquerades nowadays become an admin. That is great. >> >> However, I am seeing more activity overall on English Wikipedia from the >> habitual editors - which is a very good sign. Young former CAs are playing >> up too but the spectre of exams had made its presence known by end January. >> All in all, a fairly okay month for WikiProject India. >> >> AshLin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-in-en mailing list >> wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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