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Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp in Chennai: Jimbo recently visited India in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp in Chennai. The one day conference attracted 300 participants from across India and beyond dealt with issues facing wikis ([1]). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( [2]), which cited the efforts of Bhadani (edit count), Sundar (leadership on Tamil Wikipedia) and Ganeshk (Creation of Ganeshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled from California to attend the conference.
Wikipedia Weekly 15: Wikipedia Weekly, a informal Wikipedians' program that purports to give "A weekly audio roundup of Wikipedia happenings with news, interviews and roundtable discussions" recently interviewed two prominent editors Rama's Arrow and Ragib(listen). The entire 34 minute interview was entirely about the world of Indian subcontinent wiki-happenings, and was the first episode which was not entirely dominated by discussion of wiki-politics and wiki-bureaucracy, with the host Witty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of featuredcontent. Rama's Arrow cited the team spirit, friendship and respect among project members in discussing its success and FA productivity, as well as discussing subcontinental wiki-conflict. Ragib talked also of his public campaign to raise awareness of the Bengali Wikipedia in his native Bangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year.
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Welcome to the March 2007 edition of our newsletter.
Congratulations to one of our most respected writers, bureaucrats and administrators, Nichalp, who is now entrusted with the oversight permission. In addition Riana has joined the administrative ranks after a successful RfA.
More generally, certain Indian users have recently been subject to real life harassment by banned users, etc. If this is affecting you in real life, please do not hesitate to contact Wikimedia board members for assistance, or ask a senior Wikipedian to solicit help on your behalf if required.
Nishkid64, a prolific contributor and administrator, is currently undergoing surgery to fix a congenital heart defect. You can wish him wellhere.
Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it.
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Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you!
The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages.
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The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:39, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Joy1963, I have formatted the poets in a table, which is easier to read. It seems there are two poets listed as the composer of Pada 4. Could you please verify the correct information. Thanks. Chaipau 13:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
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Parisista
What is SC Chakrabarti's 2004 paper in JoAS about? Is it a review of Kashikar's monograph (BORI 1994)? Modak's book is from about the same time (1993) and he gives a different set of names (with an order). I had intended to add them, but I'll have to look at Kashikar's book first. What I'd like to check in particular is that, as I understand it, while by later times, anything that could claim to be a parisista of the SYV was (naturally) attributed to Katyayana, the Katiya Parisista per se consists of 18 "books". (There are also some spelling discrepancies, btw.) rudra (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the confirmation. I've left some notes on the talk page. I may have trouble tracking down Chakrabarti's paper, as there is more than one Asiatic Society, and there were several versions of the Journal of the Asiatic Society in the past (Calcutta, Bombay)! Is this the one in Mumbai? (<-- Sorry, didn't pay enough attention.) rudra (talk) 15:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Somesvara III
Hi. I noticed your information regarding the king's Sanskrit writing, Manasollasa. Please provide a citation and reference from which you derived this information. BTW, I am aware that this is one of the famous Sanskrit writings, an encyclopaedia, from Southern India. Thanks for this useful update.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 19:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008
Project News
Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
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