English WikiProject News
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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.
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What's New?
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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 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 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.
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Complete To Do List
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Complete To Do List
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Requests:
Sibichen K Mathew,
Dominic Emmanuel,
AK Merchant,
Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,
Akhand Pratap Singh,
Asura (band),
Asian Variety Show,
Cultural liberalism in India,
India Export Tax,
India Import Tax,
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NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
More...
Wikify:
Railway stations,
Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,
Silk in the Indian subcontinent,
IDBI Bank
More...
Cleanup:
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Rampur,
Tav-Prasad Savaiye,
Shipping Corporation of India,
Velama,
Medical college (India),
All India Radio,
More...
Merge:
Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More...
Expand:
Prime Minister of India,
Krishna district,
List of railway stations in India,
Swaraj,
Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case),
Barak Missile Deal Scandal,
14th Lok Sabha,
Adithada,
Ali Sardar Jafri,
Bandhani work,
Bhaiband,
Chikan (embroidery),
China Town, Kolkata,
Rahi Masoom Raza,
Energy policy of India,
Essar Shipping,
Fair use,
Hinduism in India,
Imperial Bank,
Inbuan Wrestling,
Iran-India relations,
Islam in India,
Arjuna award,
Sunil Mittal,
Save Indian Family,
Anjana Sukhani,
Rajendra K. Pachauri,
More...
Stubs:
Anand Math,
A R Antule,
Arjuna award,
Army of India,
Bapudeva Sastri,
Bombay Dyeing,
Indian Copyright Act,
Marimallappa,
Mumbai Skywalk,
More...
Translate:
Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles,
Maithili Wikipedia articles,
Telugu Wikipedia articles,
Marathi Wikipedia articles,
Hindi Wikipedia articles,
Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,
Tamil Wikipedia articles
Kannada Wikipedia articles
Collaborate:
Collaborations of the Month,
Notice board,
Category Adoptions
To do,
Version 1.0 assessment,
India Portal,
Life in India,
India quick links
Indian Wikipedians,
More...
Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
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