WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V Issue no   November    styleborderspacingpxmarginpx px width classMainPageBG stylewidth  borderpx solid cefe backgroundcolorffffa verticalaligntopcolor  width cellpadding cellspacing styleverticalaligntop backgroundcolorffffa  English WikiProject News   stylecolor After a missed issue the WPIND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and offline action both in English as well as other Indian languages and we now have a bigger better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias  Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias To this end efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages and registration of the society is currently pending An effort is underway to push for WikiMarathons at meetups where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English andor Indian language Wikipedias This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public In addition a bot to post DYKs from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by      Whats New   stylecolor Regrettably the number of Featured Articles has dropped from  in June to  at the end of October  Several FAs came up for review and were delisted while Fundamental Rights Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved Meanwhile Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July   Hearteningly the number of Good Articles increased from  to  during the same period while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at   The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews nominations deletions etc   The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September Consequently the block was extended till September   In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols The discussion was triggered by the deletion of s party symbol images by  as copyright violations No resolution was reached partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue     Complete To Do List   stylecolor   Complete To Do List        classMainPageBG stylewidth  borderpx solid cefe backgroundcolorffffa verticalaligntopcolor  width cellpadding cellspacing styleverticalaligntop backgroundcolorffffa  News from Indianlanguage Wikipedias  stylecolor  The Bengali Wikisource which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore has crossed the  pages milestone According to List of Wikisource page Bengali Wikisource is now at rank  among  Wikisource based on number of content pages   in Coimbatore in June  The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference  WCTC in June Nearly  words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from  to  This has brought Tamil to the th place from  in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo In addition Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at  the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life   introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of  selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania  at Gdansk  The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September   In addition Hindi is the first and so far the only Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research  Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software WikiCD for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD which was launched in  In addition Santosh along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania  on creation of offline Wiki content       styleborderspacingpxmarginpx px width  classMainPageBG stylewidth  borderpx solid cedff backgroundcolorffaff verticalaligntop  width cellpadding cellspacing styleverticalaligntop backgroundcolorffaff  Community news  stylecolor   Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and  met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities A month later Hyderabad also held its first meetup    Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on  September    Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees and marking the release of the community newsletter Along with Delhi and Mumbai Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation     Use