User:Arunram
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[edit] About Me
I am a Netizen from Bangalore, India. Wikipedia is a great capability!
[edit] My interests
- India
- Indian culture
- Indian architecture
- Travel
- Technology
- Gizmos
- PDAs
- PalmOS
- Biographies
- Collecting books
[edit] My contributions
[edit] What I do
- Contribute towards key India articles that should be in Wikipedia.
- Categorize India related content. (There's loads of work to be done)
- Fostering collaboration efforts and activities amongst wikipedians working on India related content.
- Garnering participation amongst new wikipedians.
[edit] Initatives started
- Wikiportal/India
- Indian collaboration of the week
- Indian current events
- Category Adoptions|Category Adoptions
[edit] Pages I created/started
Event pages
Carnatic music instruments
Karnataka Pages
[edit] Categories I created/started
- Category: Carnatic music instruments
- Category: Hindustani music
- Category: Hindustani musical instruments
[edit] My Wikipedia reference pages
[edit] People
[edit] Scouting for contribution opportunities
- Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week - Opportunities to edit collboratively with other wikipedians.
- Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week India - Need create forum and mobilize people to get started with this.
[edit] Most active Indian Wikipedians
(Disclaimer: as I view it, may not be complete and true picture)
- User:utcursch
- User:Improv
- User:Sundar
- User:Nichalp
- User:Brhaspati
- User:Arunram (yours truly :-) )
[edit] Wikipedians I bump into often
- User:Mailer_diablo - the Wikipedian who first welcomed me! Thanks Mailer_Diablo
- User:Pamri - Share edit pages with this wikipedian
[edit] Wikipedia and India
- Wikimedia India chapter - Chapter to promote wikipedia in India and lobby for more content in Indian languages
- Wikipedia:Indian wikipedians' notice board
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/India
- {{India-stub}} - Use this to flag new articles.
[edit] Wikipedia editing: pages I refer often
- Category:Wikipedia style and how-to- The mother of all pages
- Wikipedia:Utilities - To help one "do" things in the Wikipedia world.
- Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles - Useful tips for better results.
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout - The building blocks of any new article.
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text - Learning to use the full spectrum of these placeholders.
- Wikipedia:Template messages - Predefined templates at Wikipedia.
- Grouping articles with Wikipedia:Category (list of Special:Categories), Wikipedia:Article series, Wikipedia:Incumbent series, and Wikipedia:Topics
[edit] Things I am curious about
- Mediawiki - Need to understanding the magical platform that creates Wikipedia.
- How Wikipedia is managed - What does it take to manage wikipedia
- Wikipedia statistics
- Creating new templates
- Using Bots
- Creating Bots
[edit] Wikipedia Governance
- Wikipedia:Administrators, Wikipedia:List_of_administrators, Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins, Wikipedia:Administrators'_reading_list, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats, Wikipedia:Recently_created_bureaucrats, Wikipedia:Bureaucrat_log
- Wikipedia:Arbitration_committee
[edit] Wikipedia & Languages
- [[The_provisional_portal_of_Wikipedia] ]
[edit] Awards
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I present this Barnstar to Arunram for his dedicated work on India-related articles, esp. for gettting the Indian collaboration of the week and Wikiportal India started. -- utcursch 11:48, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
I endorse this barnstar. Great work on Wikiportal India. Keep it up :) --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 14:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I award you this barnstar for your untiring efforts in setting up a collaboration of Indian editors and Indian themed portals. Nichalp 19:48, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC).
