Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 8

message: I was wondering if it's a good idea to have a mailing list of Indian wikipedians (like a yahoogroup.) Of course, we'll have a code of conduct regarding what not to post on the list, so that it conforms with wikipedia policies (eg no campaigning, etc.) A majority of Indian wikipedians are not regular, and a mailing list will help them keep abreast of what's happening even if they don't log in often. The mailing list would also help us discuss general wikipedia issues like any meetings we might organize in future, or things like how to make wikipedia more popular in India. We might also have a kind of weekly or monthly "newsletter" describing new India-related things happening on wikipedia, depending upon how enthusiastic people are. Would this be useful? deeptrivia (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, although I am not sure how a mailing list works exactly.  DaGizzaChat © 03:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, an example is yahoogroups. When you send a mail, all members receive it. deeptrivia (talk) 04:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a long forgotten wikipedia-India specific mailing list. HPN has the details. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What is HPN? deeptrivia (talk) 13:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha ha: User:HPN :D =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:25, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I wasn't sure myself, did some digging around - these are the relevant links -  and . Someone may want to kickstart it and let us know so that we can shamelessly free-ride ;) --Gurubrahma 05:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah, but the group is primarily for Indian language projects. So, I wanted someone to enter the waters and see how welcome we are and how relevant that listing is in view of our purposes. Of course, you can turn back and say that "Inglees" is an Indian language ;) --Gurubrahma 07:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I somehow landed on Kanada wikipedia - posted a message on the talk page and got a reply from HPN on my talk page. I am pasting his reply below for wider circulation: "Mail me at hpnadig AT gmail DOT com. I currently have populated a list of long time Indian contributors who had shown interest in Indian Chapter. The focus is more on Indian languages projects than the English Wikipedia. The plan is to hold an IRC meeting soon. Cheers." --Bhadani 15:10, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This list is dead. So it's ideal for all of us to infest and start using, as if it were actually meant for us. deeptrivia (talk) 19:31, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mailing list 

message: I am particularly happy that we have had an increase in India-related featured articles recently. :) I've gone through the List of featured articles and I've listed a few high priority articles that should be elevated to featured status, hopefully by the end of 2006.
# Art, architecture: Taj Mahal
# Awards: Param Vir Chakra, Bharat Ratna
# Education: Any college or university / IIT 
# Food and drink : Any
# Geology: Geology of India
# History: History of India, Military history of India (any more will do)
# Law: Supreme Court of India, Constitution of India + 1 legal case
# Literature: any
# Economics: State Bank of India
# Music: Jana Gana Mana
# Government: President of India, Prime Minister of India, Parliament of India, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Government of India
# Biographies: Manmohan Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar
# Transport: Air India
# Military: Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force, Military of India (+3 wars)
# Geography: Flora and fauna of India
# Places: Delhi, New Delhi, Kolkata + All other cities and states also welcome
=Nichalp «Talk»= 14:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indian Featured articles 

message: Hi All - I request your help and advice on making Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel an FA. There are many issues with the article, and I need the aid of all. Rama's Arrow 16:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sardar Patel]] Peer Review 

message: Just as the list of India-related FAs is on the rise, so is the case with the list of India-related articles for deletion. Today, I added fifteen tagged articles (10 AFD, 5 PROD) to WP:DSI - please watchlist that page, if you have not done so already and participate actively in the discussions there in. I can't help but wonder how many are being speedied apart from these. --Gurubrahma 16:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The other list of articles 

message: Further to Portal_talk:India#Nominate already?, can contributors familiar with the various India-related articles' policies/guidance update the "Conventions" section in the Notice board? I have added one or two, but I feel this section should be more comprehensive to help both new and regular contributors. AreJay 21:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Policies and Procedures 

message: Hi, As I have already added elsewhere, a meet will be organised in Bangalore on April 2, 2006 Sunday by the  Kannada wikipedia. Please us this form to register if you are interested in attending the meet. You may contact Hariprasad Nadig if you have any questions, etc.,--Pamri • Talk 04:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't forget post the photos and the minutes of the wikimeet. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  KN wikipedia Meet 

message: I just transfered a block of text to create the new article on Malabari paratha. Should this be considered a flatbread? Rmhermen 17:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Question on Indian topic

message: I was thinking of nominating this picture for FP status. Does it look like a reasonable picture? We could choose other pictures from commons:Category:Mohandas_K._Gandhi.  I like this one, but it has issues like size and graininess. deeptrivia (talk) 04:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It needs to be touched up. =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is as good as I can get it to look. Unfortunately, the shadow pixels of the original image are badly damaged and eaten up...not a whole lot can be done about lighting, I'm afraid. However, I have eliminated most of the graininess. Hope this helps some. AreJay 04:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured pic candidate? 

message: Hi, can everyone take a look at :Template:Indic and :Template_talk:Indic and see what they think?  Thanks. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 15:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request review of Indic transliteration template 

message: Hi all, happy Holi. I have started an India-specific quiz at WP:PINQ. The objective is to see that the articles refrred to in the quiz get more attention and that these questions be modified into "Did you know.." facts for WP:PIN, our portal. I know that there are several avid quizzers such as Nichalp, Tintin and Idleguy, so I expect that the quiz page would be swamped. Bless this venture, --Gurubrahma 10:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important announcement - Quiz 

message: The selected article section on the India portal has just started. No article has been selected as yet after a community vote and review. I don't think it is right to add this template to existing articles that were randomly picked. I propose this template be removed from article talk pages that did not have selected article peer review. Your thoughts? - Ganeshk (talk) 08:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. By the way, who used to select the articles earlier, or was it just that anybody could select anything at random.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The process was started by User:Urshyam in the end of Feb and he has been selecting the articles till date. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it can be removed, if majority is in favour of this. I saw the people were not responding for the process. So I have to select the picture randomly and I use the same tag which I should use after making comments by the people. Put your thoughts,  Shyam (T/C) 13:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: {{tl|indian selected}}

message: I'm not sure how to deal with this page- I do not have too much experience with creating disambiguations appropriately. But it is clear that this (Sita) is not how the page should be. Any assistance with the page would be appreciated. Thanks! DevanJedi 01:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Redirected Sita to Sita Devi. Sita (disambiguation) already exists. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Sita]]

message: MPatel and I have started working on articles on Muslim pilgrimages to local shrines (not the Hajj). Ziyarat is about the general topic, Ziyaret is intended as a list of pilgrimage sites. I believe that there are such sites in India, tombs of Sufi pirs and the like. It would be nice if some of the Indian editors could contribute to the list of sites and especially nice if we could have pictures (public domain or creative commons). This is something that only WP could do -- working across borders, collaboratively, to produce a record of what I expect to be much beautiful architecture. Zora 09:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have taken some pictures of Haji Ali =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for help on [[Ziyaret]] and [[Ziyarat]] 

message: Here are some requested maps for the History of India wikiproject. I've made these requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps, but I guess, it's a good idea to put it here too. Please feel free to add more requests, and of course, to contribute. deeptrivia (talk) 05:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map requests from [[WP:HOI]] 

message: FYI, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gandhi and Jinnah is a featured picture candidate. It is not that great of a pic IMO, but just putting it out there FYI. Pepsidrinka 05:36, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured pic FYI 

message: An anon and a n00b are adding a lot to the above - their edits have changed the total structure of the article itself. It could also be a copy-vio though I haven't been able to find any sources to substantiate this. Someone may want to add the article to their watchlist and track the progress of the article. TIA, --Gurubrahma 04:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hindu law]] 

message: From looking at the list of languages by number of native speakers and comparing that to the success of their Wikipedia projects, a few jump out significantly. Of the top ten with the most speakers, 3 have Wikipedia projects that don’t even make it in the top 50—Hindi, Bangla, and Panjabi. Arabic is a top ten language that has an only somewhat larger WP at #37 with 11,000 articles. Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, and Gujarati are all top 25 languages that have less than 2,500 articles. I believe we can more successfully meet the mission of the foundation of getting the world’s knowledge to people if we successfully attract more participation to the projects for the most widely spoken languages.
I know many of you here speak some of these languages, and many of you contribute there too, but these projects simply haven’t attracted a critical mass yet. I think I know many of the factors why (demographics, interest, cultural factors, etc), but I haven’t figured out the best ways to tackle the problem. What are the most significant barriers to your participation or that of others? What ways can you all think of to successfully attract more participants in these languages? I know that each have a significant population of educated students, professors, and professionals that haven’t been exposed to the project. I also know that we only work on what is interesting to us, and that's perfectly fine, but I do think there is untapped potential. Thank you very much - Taxman Talk 22:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promoting participation in underepresented languages 

message: Hello.  Can someone be so nice as to post the 2006 dates of Ugadi, Mahavir Jayanti, Rama Navami .... and other upcoming Indian holidays on the holidays section on Template:Current events, please ?  I can't find the dates in the wikiarticles on most Indian holidays. Thanks. -- PFHLai 23:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming Indian holidays 

message: Jaisalmer is this week's Indian collaboration of the week. Please contribute and help it become a featured-standard article.. - Ganeshk (talk) 04:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  INCOTW: Jaisalmer