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Nice to Meet You
Hello Mskadu, Thank you for the Hello. May have some questions in the future on how to work in Wikipedia more efficiently.Thisandthem (talk) 09:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Of course, anytime --MK 09:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mskadu, I have been working on fixing an article that has had problems. I actually started with Philip Jamison, a great watercolor artist. Then fell into the Jamison Twins page(his daughters) and saw it would be a challenge to fix. So I started to research it thoroughly. It's been interesting at the sametime. I have written to several admins and have heard nothing back. Can you take a look at the article and let me know if the boxes can be changed and if I'm doing ok with the article. I want to finish and go onto another subject about comic books from the 70's. Thank you! Thisandthem (talk) 00:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Adoption
Hello Mskadu, I've adopted you! I look forward to working together with you. First impressions: positive. I was having a look around your userspace and saw non-free images in your gallery. Unfortunately, that's against policy. (Don't worry, I've done it too). You have to remove them, but you can still say you uploaded it by posting a link, like so: [[:File:FILENAME]] Notice the colon before "File". Other than that, stuff looks good. Please ask me if you have any questions! Regards, Airplanemantalk 12:25, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
P.S. I see a bot removed them. As I said earlier, you can still link them using the method shown above. Airplanemantalk 12:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. It seems, from your contributions, that you have been doing fine without my guidance for a while now. I therefore do not see the point of continuing my adoption of you: you have graduated! Sorry I didn't do more; I hope to keep in touch. You can always find me on my talk page. Regards, Airplaneman ✈ 20:51, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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Demerara/Turbinado Sugar
Hi Mayuresh. Could I ask you to comment again on the discussion of merging Turbinado and Demerara sugar into one article. At present, two of us support a merge, and you opposed it. I'm keen to build a consensus on what to do next. Thanks, Thomas Kluyver (talk) 11:59, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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नमस्कार, Mskadu/Archive 5 आपण Marathi language- किंवा Maharashtra-विषयक लेखात जे योगदान केले आहे त्याबद्दल धन्यवाद.
इंग्रजी आणि मराठी विकिपीडियावरील सहयोगच्या माध्यमातून विकिपीडिया संबंधीत प्रकल्पांचा आणि लेखांचा आवाका आणि गुणवत्ता सुधारावी या हेतूने विविध प्रकल्पाची आखणी केली आहे आपण या विकिपीडिया:प्रकल्पात लेखन योगदान करून या प्रकल्पाचा हिस्सा व्हावेत या सदिच्छेने मी आपणास हे निमंत्रण देत आहे.
या प्रकल्पात सहभाग घेऊन आपण सहकार्य करू इच्छित असाल तर, कृपया मराठी विकिपीडियाचे समाज मुखपृष्ठ आणि आपल्या आवडीच्या प्रकल्प पानास भेट देऊन अधिक माहिती घ्यावी हि नम्र विनंती. पुन्हा एकदा धन्यवाद!~~~~
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१ मे, २०१३मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या दहाव्या वर्धापनदिनानिमित्त स्मृतिचिन्ह
आपल्या मराठी विकिपीडियावरील सहभागाबद्दल, सहवासाबद्दल आणि उत्कृष्ट योगदानाबद्दल हे मराठी विकीचे अभिमान गौरव निशाणमराठी विकिपीडियाच्या सर्व आजी माजी वाचक,संपादक, आणि चहात्यांना अर्पण करण्यात येत आहे.आपल्या आवडीचे वाचन,लेखन संपादन असेच सदैव घडत राहो हि शुभेच्छा!!
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WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
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Jamison Twins
Hi Mskadu,
I posted this earlier on your page, maybe in the wrong spot, but was wondering if you could help me out a little.
I have been working on fixing an article that has had problems. I actually started with Philip Jamison, a great watercolor artist. Then fell into the Jamison Twins page(his daughters) and saw it would be a challenge to fix. So I started to research it thoroughly. It's been interesting at the sametime. I have written to several admins and have heard nothing back. Can you take a look at the article and let me know if the boxes can be changed and if I'm doing ok with the article. I want to finish and go onto another subject. Thank you! Thisandthem (talk) 16:28, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line 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 and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. 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 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
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 2011.
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 Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft 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.
The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
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 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) 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.
The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. 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.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
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.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
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