Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewst...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > +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).
I you have any plans in mind, please let us know. We will take it up further through the chapter SIGs. Regards -Sudhanwa > > 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. 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