Wikipedia:WikiProject India

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The India WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Republic of India and the history of the Indian subcontinent. The goals of this group are three-fold; to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe aspects of India, to improve dfgWikipedia's coverage of India by creating, expanding, and maintaining factual articles, to serve as the point of discussion for issues related to India in Wikipedia. To achieve the goals, this project group has developed features to help in managing its creative work. It includes Departments, which coordinate work on certain tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration and Work Groups, and focus on content and articles related to India, such as cities, politics and culture.

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Participation

Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members. Feel free to add your name and join in this initiative.

Departments

Departments are groups of members who do specific work. Tasks include authoring, maintaining the project pages, administering portals, adding articles, participating in reviews, managing the project and so on. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members may not necessarily do only departmental tasks. They can contribute content as a member of Work Groups as well.

Coverage

• Refine and maintain the List of basic India topics, a key guide on Wikipedia to India as a subject. It serves as a table of contents, summary, and topic outline of coverage on the country India and is the most useful tool on Wikipedia for exploring and understanding fundamental material about India (and how it fits together) on Wikipedia. Its purpose is an important one: it simply enables readers to see at a glance how the subject of India is broken down, what the component topics are, and how they relate to each other - that is, how information on India is organized (here, and in the world-at-large). It is a site map and outline of knowledge that demystifies the subject known as "India". Because of its central role in the presentation of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject, it is very important to develop and maintain it to the highest level of quality: to help readers improve their conceptual awareness and understanding of India as well as find their way around this subject on Wikipedia. For examples of other pages in this set, see List of basic France topics, List of basic Thailand topics, List of basic Japan topics, List of basic Taiwan topics, and List of basic Iceland topics, all of which are currently completed to a higher level of quality than this page. In other words, much work needs to be done: the List of basic India topics is incomplete, needs your editing contributions, and is especially in need of pictures!

Outreach

The outreach department guides its members on strengthening the sense of community in this project. Members' tasks include welcoming new members in the project, helping other editors in the project, managing the newsletters and helping the general project community to be in touch.

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Indian articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP India}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration

The Indian Collaboration of the month seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every month, a maximum of five articles are selected to be in the focus, and the project attempts to improve them, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of India (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of India-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Photography

The photography department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs and images for use in India articles.

Cartography

The cartography department aims to create a collection of high-quality maps for use in India articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

Project organisation

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Workgroups to see the Project organisation.

Project banner

Place this WikiProject notice {{WP India}} at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject India. Please refer to Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner for banner usage guidelines.

Userbox

Add this userbox {{User Wikiproject India}} to your userboxes to direct editors to WikiProject India from your userpage.

WikiProject Award

If you notice someone making outstanding contributions to this project or any of the descendant WikiProjects, please feel free to give them any of the following barnstars.

The India Star

Syntax: {{subst:The India Star|message ~~~~}}. It will produce:

		The India Star
		Your message here ~~~~

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

Syntax: {{subst:The Indian Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}. It will produce:

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		{{{1}}}

Templates

What to type	What it produces	Uses
{{WP India}}		To be placed on article talk pages, designates that an article is within the scope of the Project, articles can also be rated to find their overall quality and importance.
{{WPIN-Member}}		Optional large banner in which users can display on their Userpage telling viewers that they are a member of the Project, can replace the Userbox or be an addition to it,
{{WPIN-Invite}}		To be placed on User talk pages of users who you have noticed contribute regularly to India related articles, if they decide to join they will list themselves on the list of participants
{{User WPIndia}}	This user is a member of WikiProject India.	Designates that a User is a member of this Wikiproject. This can be used instead or as well as the above banner.
{{Indian Barnstar}}	The Indian Barnstar of National Merit {{{1}}} this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~	To be awarded to users who are greatly involved in the project

• {{IndicL}} to add one of the multiple scripts to an article lacking it
• {{India Links}}: Welcome template/useful links
• {{India quick links}}: Welcome template/useful links (shorter version)

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on India-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Stub templates.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Resources

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject India