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WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007[edit]

Project News
  • 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 featured content. 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.
What's New?
Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia!
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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.
  • On a sad note, Nobleeagle, who was responsible for the creation of the Punjab WikiProject, and was largely responsible for Indian cricket team, Bhagat Singh and Lage Raho Munna Bhai becoming GAs, as well as working heavily in Indian religious and cricket work, has left the project after having his identity revealed.
  • 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 well here.
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This edition special
  • 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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Blogswara[edit]

Hello! Sorry for the delay in replying. The article is good. I've categorised it now. Since the blog isn't very famous, it is best to keep the external links only to reputed sources (see WP:EL). Otherwise people will be doubtful about its notability.--thunderboltz(TALK) 05:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Special Pages in local wikis[edit]

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Hi I am from Malayalam Wikipedia (http://ml.wikipedia.org/). We are trying to make the upload pages in malayalam wikipedia more user friendly as it is in English Wikipedia.

For that we have to create/modify special pages as in English Wiki. For example we need an equivalent page of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. I know that a local special page is available at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. But we need to include the explanations as in the english wikipedia on this page. How to achieve this.--Shijualex 15:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An administrator will need to create a page at MediaWiki:Uploadtext/ownworkrep, and add the text you want to show up at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork .--Werdan7T @ 18:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]


This is not working. I think you have given wrong information. We tried this Malayalam wikipedia. But we are not getting the desired result.

If the information that you have provided is correctr, then the media wiki text in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext/ownwork would have been as in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. But that is not the case. We tried creating the media wiki text as you said. But we are not getting the desired result.

We want to know where the text and formatting in the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork is defined in English Wiki. We want to create a malayalam version of it.

Also we want to restrict the licenses that are appearing in the drop down list on this page as in the English Wiki. In malayalam Wiki most of the licesnses that are appearing in the "ownwork upload page" are meaningless.

--Shijualex 03:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was a typo in Werdan7's reply; to customize http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork, an admin needs to change MediaWiki:Uploadtext/en-ownwork; the dropdown list of licences is controlled by MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. (Replacing en with ml in the URLs and before the -ownwork (or whatever, you can put anything you like after the hyphen as long as you use the same thing on all three pages) will come up with the corresponding pages on mlwiki.) Note that much of MediaWiki:Licenses refers to templates on the local wiki, so you will have to create those templates first. Hope that helps! --ais523 10:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)


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With the help provided by User:ais523 we are able to create the special page for uploading in Malayalam Wikipedia. As an experiment we have created/mofified the special upload page that is avaiable at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork in English Wikipedia. See the corresponding page in Malayalam Wikipedia at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.

But the license part is still creating problem. The licesnse that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. But still the license drop down list in this special page is showing the licenses that are defined at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses. We want this special page to show the same licenses as in English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance for all the help. --Shijualex 16:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you'd have better luck at MediaWiki, talking directly to the developers there. You may also be able to go to the Technical Village Pump, where you'll find more techno-savvy people there. Working here, you're much less likely to find someone who is able to help out. An administrator may also be able to give you a copy of the code used on the upload pages here. Hersfold (t/a/c) 18:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same problem[edit]

Hello, I'm from Vietnamese Wikipedia and I have the same problem with you while creating a Upload page. I've read the answer in mediawiki.org but don't know how to deal with it. Can you? Vinhtantran 07:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is reply from Cohesion, the one who created Upload page in Wikipedia English, I have vi's bureaucrat do this and waiting for result, hope it can help User talk:Cohesion#Help_about_Upload_page. Vinhtantran 10:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Collapsable sections or tables[edit]

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Hello,

I am trying to create a collapsible section/table in my personal wiki.


To test this feature I have copied the following page to my wiki. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collapsible_tables

I have also copied the common.js file to my wiki. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js


The corresponding pages in my wiki are:


But the show/hide feature is not appearing in my page. Can someone tell me what all additional templates that I need to create or what are the code changes that I have to make n common.css or common.js files.

I am unable to find a solution for this from english wiki or meta. Thanks in advance. --Shijualex (talk) 03:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, welcome, and all that. I'm sorry, I can't help you, but I have asked someone who can, and they should be here very shortly...keep up the good stuff, --  Chzz  ►  04:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Here is how you do collapsible boxes:
There you are! Tiptoety talk 04:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Hello! Can I help?[edit]

I notice that you've asked for help A LOT :-)

Please - tell me your problems, and I will respond to them quickly.

--  Chzz  ►  04:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008[edit]

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.
  • What's Featured and Good?
  • 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.
  • Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
Article statistics and to-do lists
Current proposals and discussions
From the Editors
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LIst of Wikipedians...[edit]

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009[edit]

Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »

WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.

Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.

To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »

Currently, 11,028 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!

Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.

RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.

"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

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WikMeetup Bangalore 3[edit]

WikMeetup Bangalore is scheduled for Sunday, 5 July, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM and I have emailed you with more details. Please ping me if you require any more information. Hoping to meet you on the meetup day. Take care -- Tinu Cherian - 08:50, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009[edit]

Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.

Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.

Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!

To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!

These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?

Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.

We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »

Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.

A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!

Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!

Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!

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The Indian Barnstar of National Merit[edit]

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
We thank the contributions of Shijualex to Wikipedia..especially his efforts on Malayalam Wikipedia -- Tinu Cherian - 04:07, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)[edit]

Project News

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.

What's New?
Current proposals and discussions
  • 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.
  • 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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Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
Complete To Do List
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Talkback[edit]

Hello, Shijualex. You have new messages at Ravichandar84's talk page.
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Re:Oriya[edit]

Hi there friend! No need to mail but I am online now and come frequently. Please discuss at your talkpage and no need to leave a talkback at my talk page. You were right, my mother tongue is Odia (The new spelling, no more Oriya nor Odiya. Watch for this new headline here!)I've also written to you in the Oriya Wikipedia. Thanks --Sainsf<^> (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010[edit]

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 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.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • 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 Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • 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.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

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.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

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.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • 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.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

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Tinucherian (Distributor)


This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

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You have an English page too![edit]

Heh... I found your other user page before this one. Gerardo has been very kind to me, helping me learn how to work with GLAM. However, he recommends that I have a number of contacts to learn from. I am an American English teacher who has been living in central Mexico for about seven years. I am involved with the newly-forming Wikimedia México, as the coordinator of "viniculación" (literally - linking). My job is to work on making contacts and connections to develop projects and other stuff for the organization. I am working on my first GLAM project with the Museo de Arte Popular, which is a museum in Mexico City dedicated to Mexican handcrafts and folk art. (BTW, I wrote both of the articles linked here) I choose this museum as I have a contact there, plus I have an interest in Mexican crafts/folk art. So far, I have only been able to get my contact to agree to give a presentation or proposal to the director of the museum, rather than a face-to-face meeting. My Mexican counterparts in Wikimedia México says this is an OK start, but we have to make the presentation good. What I guess I am looking for is advice and help from those more experienced in this kind thing, from as many angles as possible. Gerard has been very helpful and has given me lots of good tips. However, he says that your experience may be even more helpful to me.Thelmadatter (talk) 19:34, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your work with the Indian government for the release of materials is very interesting. Are there websites where I can read what has been done so far? That is very similar to GLAM and we hope to work with the Mexican government eventually.Thelmadatter (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Original Barnstar
For all your contributions to Wikipedia and Wikimedia -- Tinu Cherian - 14:27, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Conference in New Delhi[edit]

Hello I am coming to New Delhi to give a talk on editing Wikipedia at the medical school their [3]. Do you know of people in the area who would be interested? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:10, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Drum Cat[edit]

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Thanks for joining the Offline project![edit]

Happy to be helped!
Thanks for pitching in at Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools! You are going to make a lot of children very happy :) AshLin (talk) 05:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar[edit]

Outreach Barnstar
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Happy Onam[edit]

Wishing you and your family a very happy Onam! — Cheers, Hindustanilanguage (talk) 10:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Ram Prasad Bismil[edit]

Dear Shiju! Kindly see this for help and go to this page Ram Prasad Bismil: Difference between revisions. Then put your openion here Destructive attitude of other users. Since I have been blocked on en. wiki I can not edit there any more. Fortunately I saw the above article today, I am puting it to your notice. Thanks Krantmlverma14.98.88.179 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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