Portal:Business/Tasks--Pamri •Talk07:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hindi wikipedia invites and welcomes Wikipedians to contribute for the cause of spreading knowledge and the Hindi language. This page contains guidelines for writing a wiki-article on any topic at the Hindi Wikipedia, with special recommendations for writing in Hindi (Note: The script/font-family for Hindi isDevanāgari; the script/font-system for English isRoman script, also, the Hindi spelling system is not completely standardized). This article is yet in English language (mostly), in order to encourage even non-native/foreign people who have learnt/are learning Hindi to contribute to the Hindi wikipedia, and native Hindi speakers who normally write in English. The examples given below are only for explanation.

Recommendations:

1. Firstly for proper viewing, it is recommended to keep all links NOT-UNDERLINED. Otherwise the मात्रा below the Hindi alphabets might get partly hidden behind the underlines. For this, please go to My Preferences (मेरी पसंद) at the top of the page, then click Misc., and then choose "underline links -> Never". Save your settings. Also, do not click yes for "justify paragraphs", otherwise on some browsers, the devanagari script will appear highly distorted.
2. All users are requested and encouraged to contribute articles here, especially, to create new articles on general topics. They are also encouraged to expand the existing articles, and improve upon them. A non-user can also do the same; it is recommended but not required to register yourself as a wikipedian user at the Hindi wikipedia. As far as possible, each article should be written with a Neutral Point of View (NPOV)—no nationalistic or partiality or hatred based articles are welcome. The articles should be based onfacts—and appropriate references should be provided as and where needed. See the English wiki'shelp page for editing in general. Almost all the general wiki-features are available for editing on Hindi wiki too. Guidelines for the content matter is mostly the same as given in English wiki.
3. Since the Hindi wiki is at its initial stages, users are welcome to take introduction and basic points from the English (or another) wikipedia's corresponding article and translate them for small articles. An in-page link to the English wiki's article will be deemed sufficient for references (a template might be created stating this). For longer articles, it is recommended to mention the references separately.
4. Since most computer users in India and elsewhere have the standard Western-type keyboard, it is best recommended (but not necessarily required) to use the virtual (software) keyboard like the one ofHindimozhi orof ISIS (Tavultesoft Keyman)—which are freewares. These are advantageous because the contemporary Hindi-speakers in India often write messages/chat using Hindi words but written in Roman (English) script, and the layout of these keyboards is quite the same that such people use. For example, using the "normal" keyboard with this software, typingga would give ग andghaa would give घा.
5. Create the article with its name written in Hindi (devanagari script). Always take care to include the nukta (dot below) for foreign / Urdu loanwords wherever it occurs in the standard spelling. For non-Indian names, use that spelling (for article name and other words) which is commonly encountered in Hindi newspapers, G.K.-books, Hindi-dubbed TV documentaries and Hollywood films and magazines. e.g., America-अमरीका (या अमेरिका), China-चीन, French-फ़्रांसिसी. For English acronyms/short-forms, use the initials in Roman script, and again create a full form in Hindi and redirect it to the short form. e.g.IPA (अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय ध्वनि वर्णाक्षर);UNO (संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ). Doing the opposite is also fine. But creating the article with the Hindi short form, as सं०रा०सं०, is not recommended. Also, the article proper must be written with the proper nukta, as फ़ारसी, and then, a non-nukta (mis-)spelt version फारसी should preferably be created to redirect to the correct spelling.
6. Hindi wikipedia strongly recommends the users to write articles in everyday common Hindi in the खड़ीबोली dialect (Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu, i.e., बोलचाल वाली हिन्दी, which may include many loanwords from Persian and Arabic). The use of शुद्ध संस्कृतनिष्ठ हिन्दी is in general neither required nor recommended. E.g., use: वजह instead of कारण, ख़ास instead of विशेष, वगैरह instead of इत्यादि, लेकिन instead of परन्तु etc. However, fortechnical andspecialized vocabulary, the use of शुद्ध संस्कृतनिष्ठ हिन्दी is recommended and usually mandatory. Thus:upper House of Parliament—संसद का उच्च सदन, but not Urdu—मजिलिस का ऐवान-ए-बाला ;Foreign Minister—विदेशमन्त्री, but not Urdu—वज़ीर-ए-ख़ारिजा ;knowledge/science—ज्ञान/विज्ञान, but not इल्म. Use spoken Hindi's ये and वो instead of यह and वह / वे. Do not use the title of respect जी after names, it is unencyclopedic. Thus: कृष्ण / श्री कृष्ण but not कृष्ण जी. Use the आप form and its corresponding 3rd person verbal conjugation for writing about respectable persons. Thus: श्री वाजपेयी मध्य प्रदेश में जन्मे थे. But not: वाजपेयी मध्य प्रदेश में जन्मा था. But do not use the pronoun "आप" itself in-text in biographies.
7. English should be used sparingly, only when required; i.e., if the corresponding शुद्ध हिन्दी word is too "difficult and not generally encountered", or if it is a proper name of non-Indian person/place/terminology/title, or if the user is highly unsure of the proper translation. It is recommended (but not required) for English-to-Hindi translation while writing articles, theShabdkosh online dictionary should be used. For each English word, that alternative should be used which is generally encountered in everyday spoken Hindi, and also fits well into the context. Use of intelligent guesses for newly encountered words is also allowed, and so are translations encountered in Hindi-dubbed TV documentaries, Hollywood films, Hindi-translated books, etc. e.g., दमपिशाच foren:Dementor (used in dubbed HP films).
8. If used, it is recommended to use the English words within the articles using the English (Roman) alphabets rather than devanagari (or better, the devanagari transliteration should be used in the sentence, followed by the English word in Roman alphabet in parentheses). Such words should be italicized and not put in quotation marks. Preferably, there should be an in-page interwiki link (like :en:) on the word to the English wikipedia. If the word comes as an integral part of a sentence, so as not to break the continuity, theen: prefix should be hidden by writing the word again after the pipe sign (piped link). Thus, recommended:हैरी पॉटर ने ''[[:en:Pensieve|Pensieve]]'' के अन्दर ''[[:en:Little Hangleton|Little Hangleton]]'' गाँव में लॉर्ड वोल्डेमॉर्ट की माँ ''[[:en:Merope Gaunt|Merope Gaunt]]'' को देखा. ''[[:en:Resplendent Quetzal|Resplendent Quetzal]]'' पक्षी के ऊपर एक मेक्सिकन पादरी डा० ''[[:en:Pablo de la Llave|Pablo de la Llave]]'' ने काफ़ी शोध किया था. Whence,
   • हैरी पॉटर नेPensieve के अन्दरLittle Hangleton गाँव में लॉर्ड वोल्डेमॉर्ट की माँMerope Gaunt को देखा
   • Resplendent Quetzal पक्षी के ऊपर एक मेक्सिकन पादरी डा०Pablo de la Llave ने काफ़ी शोध किया था
9. Always start the first 1 or 2 lines of the article giving its definition (from any standard dictionary/other wiki) or suitable introduction. Thus, recommended:ललिता सहस्रनामन हिन्दू धर्मसुधारकआदि शंकराचार्य द्वारा रचित देवीदुर्गा को समर्पित एक पूजा-मन्त्र है, जिसे कई हिन्दू रोज़ श्रद्धा से जपते हैं । But not:ललिता सहस्रनामन मन्त्र जपने के लिये लड्डू-पेड़ा, ताम्बुल, सिन्दूर, लाल चुनरी के साथ नित्य इस मन्त्र का पाठ करें, तो जल्द ही गड़ा हुआ ख़जाना मिलेगा । Recommended:वैमानिक अभियान्त्रिकी (en:Aeronautical engineering)विमानों (en:Aircrafts) की अभिकल्पना, निर्माण और प्रचालन करने का विज्ञान, कला और कार्य है । (translated from Eng. Webster's New World Dictionary). But not: आजकल वैमानिक अभियान्त्रिकी के लिये देशभर में कई कॉलेज खुल गये हैं, जिनमें अग्रणी स्थान यूटोपिया स्थित लालू-यादव टेक्लिनक कॉलेज का है ।
10. For names of countries, cities, places, languages, people, books, films, technical vocabulary, mythology, etc, start the article like this:
    • 1.The name in bold ('''अपोलो''')
    • 2.starting parenthesis, then English name in Roman script, in-page interwiki-linked to English wiki ff. by semicolon ((अंग्रेज़ी : [[:en:Apollo]];)
    • 3.The native name(s) if applicable in the italicized native script, preferably followed either by its italicized approximate Hindi pronunciation or non-italicizedphonological transcription within / /, ff. by closed parenthesis (यूनानी : ''Aπollων अपोल्लोन''))
    • 4.the rest of the definition or introduction (प्राचीन [[यूनानी धर्म]] (ग्रीक धर्म) और प्राचीन [[रोमन धर्म]] के सर्वोच्च देवता थे ।) For country names, only the standard short form of the name is needed in the first line. If there is a common name for a difficult word in Hindustani, also mention it. Whence:अपोलो (अंग्रेज़ी :en:Apollo; यूनानी :Aπollων अपोल्लोन) प्राचीनयूनानी धर्म (ग्रीक धर्म) और प्राचीनरोमन धर्म के सर्वोच्च देवता थे । If you don't give the interwiki English/another language link (which would be deemed to be the default reference), then you MUST provide an appropriate reference.
11. Please leave no article without an appropriate category. See the list of created categorieshere; you can also make a new category (pref. in Hindi). Please leave no article without at leastONE off page (like en:) interwiki link. E.g., the user can check the article name (say Apollo) on the finally redirected English page and append to the Hindi article ([[en:Appolo]])). These interlanguage links will help a bot to update all interwiki links for that article in all wikipedias. The category and the aforementioned link should be typed at the end of the article. If the article is very small, mention it as a stub/substub.
12. Use of templates is welcome. See the list of templateshere. If creating a template, name it pref. in Hindi.
13. Use पूर्णविराम ( । ) instead of a period (.) for ending statements. The पूर्णविराम, semicolon, colon and dash (but not comma) must come after one space after the word to prevent ambiguity. Use the international form of the Hindu-Arabic numerals (1,2,3 instead of १,२,३), as used by the Constitution and the Government of India (even for Hindi). There is no need to use the हलन्त at the end of Sanskrit words wherever it occurs. Hence, prefer: संसद over संसद्; अथर्वन over अथर्वन्. Use the proper quotation marks “” from the Insert toolbox, not "". Write dates as 2 मई 2006 (ईसवी or ईसापूर्व). Write time as 3:45 pm. Separate common suffix-words like शास्त्र, विज्ञान, ज्ञान with a hyphen. Thus: रसायन-शास्त्र. For most others, leave both the words of the noun-cluster free. Combine them into one word only if it is very common to do so. Thus: सामवेद.
14. The use ofज़ for theen:voiced alveolar fricative (/z/, as inzoo, rose) is fundamentally wrong. Its nearest counterpart is theen:voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ (as insea), and not Hindi ज (en:voiced palatal plosive). Hence, it is suggested and recommended that for the sound /z/, whether it comes in English (etc.) spellings (z) for while pronunciation otherwise, should be transcribed asस़ (स with a dot below, available in the Insert toolbox). Hence: Reasonरीस़न, not रीज़न ; Rosesरोस़ेस़, not रोज़ेज़. But common Hindi words borrowed from Persian/Arabic (so-called Urdu words) are allowed to continue with ज़ spelling. Thus: ज़रा, नज़र, तर्ज़. Theen:voiced postalveolar fricative (/ʒ/ as in treasure), inexistent in Hindi, can similarly be transcribed withश़. Thus: treasureट्रॅश़र. The nukta (dot) available in the Insert toolbox can be combined with various consonants to suggest a more exact phonetic devanagari rendering of foreign sounds. E.g., since phonetically, English Think and this are not equal to थिंक and दिस, a better transcription could beथ़िंक andद़िस.Please take care of the dot below in so-called Urdu words, otherwise the Hindi spelling is deemed incorrect.
15. For the following English vowels met, mate, mat, transcribe as मॅट (short vowel), मेट (not मेइट), मैट (not मॅट, as popular in Marathi). However in contemporary Hindi and here, it is acceptable to use ए instead of ऍ. Thus: अमेरिका is more popular than अमॅरिका. For cot, coat, caught, transcribe as कॉट, कोट, कॉट (not कौट). Transcribe English /t/ and /d/ as ट and ड.
16. Use half-न before त, थ, द, ध, न, instead of anuswaar अं. Use half-म before प, फ, ब, भ, म. Use the anuswaar before all the rest of the consonants (not half-ङ, ञ, ण). If the मात्रा is not above the alphabet, use chandra-bindu, but only fornasalization. Thus: अन्दर, not अंदर ; अन्त, not अंत ; हिन्दी, not हिंदी ; सम्भव, not संभव ; पंचमी, not पञ्चमी ; अंडा, not अण्डा ; कंठ, not कण्ठ ; लैंड, not लैण्ड ; आँख, not आंख. However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here; the prec. are just recommendations.
17. When proceded by another vowel, use the pure vowels instead of य (unless the य is clearly articulated while pronouncing). Thus : जाएँ, not जायें (not जावें) ; आएगा, not आयेगा . However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here.
18. Please pay careful attention to the masculine/feminine gender (and singular/plural) in adjectives and verbs, else the sentence becomes ungrammatical.

For more information/suggestions/criticisms, please contact any one of the administrators of Hindi wikihere, preferablyen:User:Magicalsaumy.

This page can also be foundhere.

Thank you,

Cygnus_hansa02:06, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week ontheEsperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended.See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replaceJoanneB andPschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on2006-07-02 and last until2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before2006-07-02. For more details, seeWikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower^háblame16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Effer, from theWikipedia Birthday Committee!!! Have a great day!

Many happy returns and enjoy the day!

Thistheman04:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Happy Birthday, Effer! Have a great one! --preschooler@heart06:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's to you on your birthday, Effer! From theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Have a brilliant day :) -Ladybirdintheuk08:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Yaeh, what they said!SergeantSnopake16:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you have a great day!

	HAPPY BIRTHDAY!	EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE
	Wishing Effer a veryhappy birthday on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece ofcake! EVOCATIVEINTRIGUETALKTOME |EMAILME |IMPROVEME

I wish you all the best on your birthday. May God Bless you! --Bhadani16:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday, Effer! --Merovingian {TC@}22:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day,Effer!

Michael06:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!Ganeshk(talk)22:20, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know of any indicators of the housing market in India? For example, in Canada and USA there are indicators that state the if the value of homes are going up or down etc.--Endgame112:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, but I know some people who might know about the Indian Housing Market, I'll try to find out.Effer15:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi this isSushant. Wish you and your family a very happy, prosperous and safe DeepawaliSushant gupta05:39, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project News The Performing Community: Thanks to many contributors like you, we're proud to share that our community is the third most performing community. It has more than 50 FAs related to India, to its credit, lagging only behing Wikiproject Biography and WikiProject Military History. (Courtesy:Ganeshk at Discussion Board). The Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment statistics for India related articles show there are 51 Featured Articles, 5 Class-A articles, 16 Good Articles, 101 Class-B articles, 167 Start-Class articles and more than 4000 Stubs. There were more than 10000 unassessed articles related to India. What's New? Indian Administrators: There are21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. The recent Wikipedians to be successful atRFA wereLostintherush andShyam Bihari. Featured Articles:West Bengal (nom) andSyed Ahmed Khan (nom) were the last two articles from our WikiProject that were granted FA status. Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!! Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w 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,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:,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 articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assessment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome. It has been weeks and months since the idea of newsletter was mooted among the WikiProject India Community. This would be our first full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. This is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tipshere. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. If you have received or given any barnstars recently, do let us know. Advertisements for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. We'll run special sections, and recurring columns in the coming issues. This edition special Cartography Department (Shortcut:WP:INMAP): TheDepartment of Cartography within theWikiProject India is a group of wikipedians who work on providing quality maps related toIndia. Their contributions gain more significance as we try to provide more information on places, districts and states of India. As a thumb rule, maps serve better if they are inSVG format. Thelocation maps by the cartography department has helped us include location information based on latitudes and longitudes for a give place within India. TheIndian Roadways map is a featured image, one amongst the few best road maps in the world. Still, there is more work to be done. There are 604districts in India (seeList of districts of India), and each district page needs a map of that district. You can help too. Contact the Cartography Department to learn how you can help in making the best maps in Wikipedia to be India-related! Signed... Edited byChez and distributed byLostintherush

From all of us atEsperanza, hope you will have a wonderful day!Bearly54123:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy edit day! --Ginkgo100^{talk ·e@}00:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

	HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY!	from theBIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE
	WishingEffer a very Happy First Edit Day! Have a fantastic day! From theWikipedia Birthday Committee

Happy edit day! --Randfan01:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you have a great day!Jam0105:39, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and have a very happy First Edit Day! I wish you all the best in the future, both onWikipedia andabroad. Best wishes from everyone atthe Wikipedia Birthday (and anniversary) Committee. I hope you have a great day, and anything I can do to make it just that little bit better, let me know onmy talk page. Cheers,Daniel.Bryant[ T · C ]07:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project News Name change of cities in Karnataka: Astraw poll was conducted on the proposal to change the name of cities in Karnataka, per theNov 1,2006 decision by the Karnataka government to rename them from the current anglicised forms. The result of the poll was to change the names. As controversial as the decision may be in the real world, the articleBangalore in Wikipedia still reflects the old name. You may be interested in knowingwhy. Dig the archives. New Project Noticeboard (Shortcut:WP:INB):WikiProject India now sports a new colourful centralised noticeboard. An effort to make the noticeboard current and dynamic was mooted a few days back, andGaneshk came up with the new format. The new noticeboard will strive to be the one-stop shop for all project related information. The shortcut isWP:INB. Members List: Theold members list is being phased out to give way for thenew members list. New members are requested to add their names to the newmembers list. As the newsletter grows, further issues of the Project Newsletter will be delivered to those enlisted in thenew list. So dash down now, to check if ur name is in there. What's New? Featured Content: Three articles (Chalukya Dynasty (nom),History of Tamil Nadu (nom) andBengali language (nom)), one list (List of Indian ODI cricketers) and one picture (Prayer flag in the Kurgiakh valley in Zanskar contributed byMoumine(pictured)) were featured from our WikiProject recently. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are22 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e•d •h •w Requests:People:Bapudeva Sastri,Marimallappa,Ravichandran,Articles:Barak Missile Deal Scandal,Asura (band),Asian Variety Show,Cultural liberalism in India,Energy policy of India,India Export Tax,India Import Tax,Marimallappa High School,More... NPOV:Rajneesh,Khalistan,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Indira Gandhi,More... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,More... Cleanup:caste system,Rampur,Tav-Prasad Savaiye,Shipping Corporation of India,More... Merge:Amber Fort,More... Expand:Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case)14th Lok Sabha,Adithada,Ali Sardar Jafri,Bandhani work,But Marma Atti,Chikan (embroidery),China Town, Kolkata,Essar Shipping,Fair use,G. N. Naidu,Hinduism in India,Imperial Bank,Inbuan Wrestling,Integral humanism,Iran-India relations,Islam in India,Sunil MittalMore... Stubs:Indian Copyright Act,Anand Math,Andhra Bank,A R Antule,Arjuna award,Army of India,Bahujan Samaj Party,Bombay Dyeing,More... Translate:Marathi Wikipedia articles,Hindi Wikipedia articles,Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,Tamil Wikipedia articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Notice board,Collaboration of the Week,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assesment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,Indian administratorsMore... Requested images:Major crops,ConvertImage:Standard of the President of India.gif to SVG,Free image ofAarti Chhabria (See:Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg and itstalk page) Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India v •e•d •h •w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to theDecember 2006 edition of our newsletter.Time flies past likematter into theblack hole. It is interesting to notice that we are already into the last month for the year of2006. 2006 sawdiscussions anddevelopment beyond realisation. In the world ofWikipedia where quality counts than quantity, we have come a long way. We've made better than 'nothing', to say the least, and even that is an achievement. I take this opportunity to thank everyone including those who have dotted the i's and crossed the t's. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us withnews tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. If you have received or given any barnstars recently, do let usknow. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off,Advance New Year Wishes, everyone. This edition special Assessment Department (Shortcut:WP:IN1): Are you one of thosegnomes?? Or do you want to take some time off some brain-frying active editing on Wikipedia?? ThenDepartment of Assessment within theWikiProject India will be your forte. The department consists of a group of wikipedians who work on rating the India related articles to check if they are worthy enough to be included in theCD (or print) version of Wikipedia. The rating process gains more significance as we try to sort out which articles and which topics need more attention to balance the India relatedsystemic bias withinwikipedia. As a thumb rule, anyone can rate any article based on the related criteria, within theStub/Start/B/A levels. However, ratings forGood Article Status andFeatured Article status go through the nomination processes. How to?: The "how to" part of assessment is very simple. Just head on to the talk page of any India related page and you'll find the {{WP India}} template. Simply classify the article based on the content and the criteria mentionedhere. You can find the detailed instructionshere. If you think it may qualify forGA/FA status, first consider submitting the article forpeer review. Signed... Edited byChez and distributed byLostintherush

Conhgratulations for the Playstation portal! --Ragnarok Addict01:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project News Usage of Vernacular scripts: Following extensive description atWikipedia:Village pump (policy)archived here regarding inclusion criteria for vernacular scripts inIndian biographies,Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts was set up to formulate usage guidelines. However,discussion appears to have dissipated without a conclusive result. Project tagging:After a brief edit war over the addition of{{WP India}} to ancient archaeological sites now located inPakistan, a "pre" parameter was introduced to remove the ROI flag from the template for pre-1947 articles, followingdiscussion. After another largediscussion on ANI alleging that the automated tagging byGaneshbot andLostBot was "nationalistic", Ganeshbot was briefly blocked. Currently, the bots are again in action. What is India?:Recently, there have been ongoing discussionshere which discuss the stated issue of"India" the historical region is different from theRepublic of India. It consisted also of modernPakistan andBangladesh, but a search for "India" automatically redirects to the Republic of India. Should there not be a clarification?. This comes in light of clashes on articles such asPanini,Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,Muhammad Iqbal andMuhammad Ali Jinnah, regarding the status of the individuals. Swastika on Hinduism templates:Recently, an extremely large and at times emotionaldebate broke out regarding the use of theswastika onHinduism templates, given its association withNazism. As a result,{{Hindu Links}} now contains an educational message about the use of the swastika, as discussion on a more permanent resolution continues. Arbitration:Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar regarding the activities of various editors on pages related to Indian religion topics closed recently, withHkelkar,BhaiSaab andTerryJ-Ho all banned for one year. Currently,Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher is in the voting phase. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Two articles (Indian Standard Time (nom)) and (Hoysala Empire (nom)), were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition.Irfan Pathan,Hinduism,Dinesh Karthik,Lage Raho Munna Bhai were promoted toGood article status. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w 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,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:,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 articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assessment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to theJanuary 2007 edition of our newsletter.Time flies past likematter into theblack hole. AHappy New Year to all. Congratulations to one of our administrators,Shanel, whowas appointed with 98% approval to the office ofSteward across the Wikimedia Project. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW):Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us withnews tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off,Happy New Year, everyone. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write anylanguages 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! Thetranslation department of theIndia 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 forKashmiri,Nepali,Oriya,Sindhi andTulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited byYellowMonkey and distributed byLostintherush

Considering that you just added yourself to that list, you may be interested in the active discussion on the topicTalk:India#Apatani.The Behnam03:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, saw you were a participant in theIllinois WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a newCollaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement toGood article standardor higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at thedivision subpage.IvoShandor11:29, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Project News Plagiarism by theTimes of India: Recently it was noticed that theTimes of India, the world's largest distribution daily had systematically plagiarised many of Wikipedia's biographies on members of theIndian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated (details). Afterdiscussion anddiscovery of further plagiarisms in other fields, the issue reached theadmin noticeboardarchived here. Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp inChennai: Jimbo recently visitedIndia in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp inChennai. 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, egThe Hindu([2]), which cited the efforts ofBhadani (edit count),Sundar (leadership onTamil Wikipedia) andGaneshk (Creation ofGaneshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled fromCalifornia 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 editorsRama's Arrow andRagib(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 hostWitty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation offeaturedcontent. 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 theBengali Wikipedia in his nativeBangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year. Arbitration: Three cases are either in progress or have recently ended. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan regarding the activities of various Indian and Pakistani editors on pages related toIndian subcontinenthistory topics, the national status of various pre-Partition figures, and edit-warring overIndic scripts and WikiProject tags was held and concluded in late February- early March. As a result of this, four Pakistani users,Siddiqui,Szhaider,Nadirali andUnre4L were all banned for one year for disruption via edit-warring and confrontationalism. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of thereligious teacher closed in early March with four users indefinitely banned from the article. Currently,Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Freedom_skies is in theevidence phase. It is concerned with the editing of Freedom_skies, who edits articles on ancient Indian history, primarily civilisation articles such asIndian mathematics and related articles, as well asBuddhism articles such asPusyamitra Sunga, as well as those pertaining to the propagation ofMahayana Buddhism toChina such asBodhidharma andZen. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Eight articles:Vijayanagara Empire (nom),Delhi (nom),Pashtun people (nom),Nathu La (nom),Harbhajan Singh (nom),Hoysala architecture (nom),Harbhajan Singh (nom),Technopark, Kerala (nom) andWestern Chalukya Empire (nom) were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. 'Dineshkannambadi has been a phenomenal force in the production of FAs recently, being responsible for three of these eight articles. He has totalled five FAs, all relating toKannada history. Three portals:Portal:Hinduism (nom),Portal:West Bengal (nom) andPortal:Kerala (nom) were also featured. There were two additional GAs,Murali Kartik andBhagat Singh. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w 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,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:,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 articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assessment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to theMarch 2007 edition of our newsletter. Congratulations to one of our most respected writers, bureaucrats and administrators,Nichalp, who is now entrusted with theoversight permission. In additionRiana has joined the administrative ranks after a successfulRfA. On a sad note,Nobleeagle, who was responsible for the creation of thePunjab WikiProject, and was largely responsible forIndian cricket team,Bhagat Singh andLage Raho Munna Bhai becomingGAs, as well as working heavily in Indian religious andcricket work, has left the project afterhaving 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 contactWikimedia 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 acongenital heart defect. You canwish 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. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us withnews tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write anylanguages 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! Thetranslation department of theIndia 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 forKashmiri,Nepali,Oriya,Sindhi andTulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited byYellowMonkey and distributed byLostintherush

You voted forNational Highways Development Project, this week'sIndian Collaboration of the Week. Please come and help it become afeatured-standard article.--Dwaipayan (talk)20:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Next time this happens just purge the cacheImage:India_roadway_map.svg#SVG_Support --^{PlaneMad|YakYak}09:50, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Will you write a fake image link to a page for me. Thanks.Playstationdude00:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did what you said and made the wikiproject. How do you make a image take you to a page when you click on it. I tried the link help page, but it did'nt really help.--Playstationdude01:14, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I need all the help I can get. I am going to use the logo as a banner for talk pages. Thank you for the help.--Playstationdude01:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. If you ever want to, your always invited to help and add content. I also want it to cover Playstation Exlusive games. And if you want to help advertise some more just copy and paste this:

File:Playstationproject.jpg To view clickhere.

Playstationdude02:19, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They put a deletion box on my logo for the playstation project saying that my copyrights are wrong. Can you tell me how to change the trademark settings. It would be more of a hassle to load the picture back up. It is Playstationproject.jpgPlaystationdude02:45, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned inWikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, theweekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week isReligion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk)05:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I posted your questionat the noticeboard. There is a discussion happening about naming India-related articles. Regards,Ganeshk(talk)04:13, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used underfair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Arjun MBT.GIF) was found at the following location:User:Effer/India as an emerging superpower. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of ournon-free content policy. The image or media was replaced withImage:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk04:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used underfair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Chennaihyundai.jpg) was found at the following location:User:Effer/India as an emerging superpower. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of ournon-free content policy. The image or media was replaced withImage:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk20:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used underfair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:GalileoPS.jpg) was found at the following location:User:Effer/European Union as an emerging superpower. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of ournon-free content policy. The image or media was replaced withImage:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk04:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used underfair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Gorshkov-01-model.jpg) was found at the following location:User:Effer/India as an emerging superpower. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of ournon-free content policy. The image or media was replaced withImage:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk06:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Effer, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such asfair use. The image (Image:Beijing2008 logo.png) was found at the following location:User:Effer/China as an emerging superpower. This image or media will be removed perstatement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either theCreative Commons orGFDL license or released to thepublic domain. Please note that it is possible that the image on your page is included vie a template or usebox. In that case, please find a free image for the template or userbox. Thanks for your attention and cooperation.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk10:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Effer, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such asfair use. The image (Image:GSLV launch.jpg) was found at the following location:User:Effer/India as an emerging superpower. This image or media will be removed perstatement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either theCreative Commons orGFDL license or released to thepublic domain. Please note that it is possible that the image on your page is included vie a template or usebox. In that case, please find a free image for the template or userbox. Thanks for your attention and cooperation.User:Gnome (Bot)-talk12:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but I'm don't have the time right now. I think if you ask the guys atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Awards, they will help. ThanksGizza^Chat©08:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to make sure you see it:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Awards#Request for Barnstar. Additional discussion can just happen there.EVula//talk //☯ //15:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Can you please cite your source thatIndian Regional Navigational Satellite System is "under construction" (meaning something is actually being made, as opposed to discussions / writing specifications). Thanks. -Davandron |Talk01:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please review wikipedia's guidelines on vandalism. Your understanding is currently lacking. Furthermore, peruse the discussion page for the Playstation 3 article to see the existing discussion on the problems with the Reception section. From now on, please make only fully-informed edits.Sacredepitaph18:59, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding yourmessage on my talk page; I started a discussion about various things in the PS3 articlehere, onMay 13, and there was one agreement with me, and no disagreements. I believe as it has been so long since I wrote that, that the two in favour vs zero against represents aconsensus and have thus reverted back to the revision which I created. Cheers–ARC Gritt^TALK21:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I was just wondering if you wouldn't mind going to two FACs for article I have brought up to FA-quality, IMO, recently. These areVoyage: Inspired by Jules Verne andAgatha Christie: And Then There Were None. I'd really appreciate any criticisms or support that you could provide for these two feature article candidates. Thanks.Paaerduag02:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

	Happy Birthday	from theBirthday Committee
	Wishing Effer a veryhappy birthday on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece ofcake!

Politics rule21:17, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a happy Birthday message to you,Effer, from theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

• FROM YOUR FRIEND:

 ThinkBlue (HitBLUE)00:06, 07 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Party hard on your special day! Cheers! --RobNS19:13, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop reverting my talk page blanks and referencing vandalism as the reason. I'll refer you to a specific section of the wikipedia vandalism policy for clarification:

Discussion page vandalism

"Blanking the posts of other users from talk pagesother than your own, Wikipedia space, and other discussions, aside from removing internal spam, vandalism, etc., is generally considered vandalism. An obvious exception is moving posts to a proper place (e.g. protection requests to WP:RFPP). Removing personal attacks is often considered legitimate, and it is considered acceptable to archive an overly long talk page by creating an archive page and moving the text from the main talk page there.The above rules do not apply to a user's own talk page, where this policy does not itself prohibit the removal and archival of comments at the user's discretion."

Quoted, word for word. Stop reverting my page.Sacredepitaph19:45, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hope it's OK to contact you this way! I was reading the PS3 article and noted a fairly major omission from the v1.90 revision features list and thought maybe you could add it? It's a locked article and I don't have a wikipedia account.

V1.90 includes the option to force 24P output On (previously Auto or Off) which means that users of 24P-capable screens that did not include the ability to correctly handshake this ability over HDMI (eg earlier Samsung M87) can now take advantage of true 24P Blu-ray playback.

Steve Roberts, BBC Resources, London

Hello, you may or may not already be aware of this, but a discussion regarding the focus of PlayStation Project has begun on theProject's talk page. Your input would be appreciated in the discussion, seeing as you're a co-founder of the project. (Guyinblack25^talk15:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hey are you there? Answer me and then i'll message back.Sam ov thebluesand,Editor Review23:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh I don't it anymore I figured it out now and I'm fixing the problem today. Sorry if I bothered you.Sam ov thebluesand,Editor Review13:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a problem on thePlayStation Portal. Two of the boxes at the bottom are crossing each other. I tried to fix it, but I can't. Can you try? --Playstationdude17:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not revert a change that has been discussed on the talk page without contributing to the discussion first (seetalk:List of wars and disasters by death toll#Noncombatant killings) --Philip Baird Shearer18:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please justify the inclusion of the list under polices and guidelines on the talk page of the article if you wish it to remain. --Philip Baird Shearer08:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded the image warhawkservers on theWarhawk (PlayStation 3 game) under the wrong classification. Do you know what I should re-upload it as?--Playstationdude21:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have the best idea in the world. Forget the message above. The PlayStation Project is started up and doing well with about 50 members. How about a Wikiproject: Blu-ray? I would cover blu-ray articles, ps3 games, companies that suppurt blu-ray, and movies that have come out on blu-ray. What do you think?--Playstationdude12:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the input. I am going to go ahead and make it. I am going to experiment in my sandbox and then set it up. Can you tell me all of the stuff I need to do besides actually making it like you did with the PlayStation Project? --Playstationdude23:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was wondering whyUser:Effer/European Union as an emerging superpower wasn't up as an actual article? I mean it is a great article for the topic so why is it just as one of your sub-pages? I remeber seeing it a few months back so I assume it is not something you've just been working on. Thanks for your time. -J Logan^t:16:28, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've found the deletion debate for them and I think I could figure out a way around the problems. I'll drop notes on their talk pages once I've come up with something. Thanks. -J Logan^t:07:13, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Project News Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by theassessment department began onJune 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 alsoget involved! Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done usingBot0612 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? Five new articles were promoted tofeatured article status in 2008:Western Chalukya architecture,2007 Samjhauta Express bombings,Akhtar Hameed Khan,Preity Zinta,Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire. Two new lists were given featured list status in 2008:List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar,List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality. There is currentlyone Indian article as afeatured articlenominee. Two more articles, (Bengali language,Kazi Nazrul Islam) are undergoingfeatured article reviews. You could help save these two articles by leaving your comments or assisting the involved editors. Three articles are undergoinggood article nominations:Anekantavada,A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada andSantosh Subramaniam. IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among themost 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'srequest for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles. Article statistics and to-do lists Article Statistics Make visible or invisible by clickingShow orHide, respectively. India articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 19 20 16 10 8 73 FL 1 4 2 1 1 9 A 2 3 3 8 GA 4 5 7 12 16 44 B 87 128 194 153 263 825 Start 74 208 530 946 2730 4488 Stub 36 159 428 2540 18644 21807 List 360 360 Assessed 221 526 1180 3665 22022 27614 Unassessed 1 7 46 92 12815 12961 Total 222 533 1226 3757 34837 40575 Complete To-Do List Make visible or invisible by clickingShow orHide, respectively. India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w 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,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:,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 articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assessment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w

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Do u have call of duty 4--DCsniper207 (talk)21:43, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ok what is ur user name and what level are my online name is axhammer1 and im on the 4th prestige and i know the names cheesy--DCsniper207 (talk)19:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

im going to get cod5 on the ps3 also--DCsniper207 (talk)19:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ok ill add u and whats ur level and im probably going to wait and here if its good because its not made by infinity ward--DCsniper207 (talk)00:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Project news Congratulations to theWest Bengal workgroup for having theirflagship article featured on theMain Page! TheIndian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. » WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a newworkgroup, to standardize and improve articles related toIndian roads, mainly theNational andState Highways. After all, India has thesecond largest road network in the world. Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85thgood article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity.Article alerts update the project withwhat's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates. To do… During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recentgeneral election and2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at thepeer review department.Sikkim has been nominated forFAR, andHastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated forFAC. » Currently,10,619 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 thenoticeboard. »

From the editors… Thelast newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008,Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year'sIPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articlesin the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-oldIndia quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun! Wikipedians are organizing ameetup 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 andWikimedia India. RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, waspromoted toadminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia bynumber of edits, refer tothis list. "Whilethis 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 ofMiD DAY as deeper implications of theScientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles ofverifiability and theneutral point of view. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of thenext issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or juststart editing! — [sd],Ganeshk and TinuCherian Project ·Portal ·Members ·Noticeboard ·Discussion+

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Current proposals and discussions Please addWikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. A discussion is underwayhere to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh,crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments. Join theeffort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs. Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by thesole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians tohelp resolve the issue. A discussion is in progresshere in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature ofart music instead ofclassical 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. TheWorld Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway inCoimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue. Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending includeGurubrahma,Shiju Alex,Ravidreams ,Santhosh Thottingal,Tinu Cherian, WMF Board memberBishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue. If you've just joined, add your name to theMembers section of 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! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of thenext issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Complete To Do List Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w Requests:Counterfeiting of currency notes in India,Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati,Akhand Pratap Singh,Ravindra GujjulaIrrigation in India,Asura (band),Asian Variety Show,Cultural liberalism in India,India Export Tax,India Import Tax,Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:articles on castes,Rampur,Tav-Prasad Savaiye,Shipping Corporation of India,Velama,Bangaru Adigalar,Medical college (India),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,But Marma Atti,Chikan (embroidery),China Town, Kolkata,Dr.Rahi Masoom Raza,Energy policy of India,Essar Shipping,Fair use,Hinduism in India,Imperial Bank,Inbuan Wrestling,Integral humanism,Iran-India relations,Islam in India,Arjuna award,Sunil Mittal,Save Indian Family,Anjana Sukhani,Rajendra K. PachauriMore... Stubs:Anand Math,Andhra Bank,A R Antule,Arjuna award,Army of India,Bapudeva Sastri,Bombay Dyeing,Indian Copyright Act,Marimallappa,Mumbai Skywalk,More... Translate:Telugu Wikipedia articles,Marathi Wikipedia articles,Hindi Wikipedia articles,Sanskrit Wikipedia articles,Tamil Wikipedia articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assesment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w Signed... SBC-YPR (Editor) Sodabottle (Editor) Tinu Cherian (Distributor)

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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 upthe 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, abot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject toTwitter was created and launched byUser: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, whileFundamental 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. Thesource code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means thatarticle 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 theprevious 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 heateddiscussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion ofWiki San Roze's party symbol images byHammersoft 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 Complete To Do List India-related tasks |Indian noticeboard v •e •d •h •w 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,More... NPOV:Greater NepalRajneesh,Ranjit Lal JetleyHedgewar,Puttanna Kanagal,Bride burning,Sonia GandhiMore... Wikify:Railway stations,Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar,Silk in the Indian subcontinent,IDBI BankMore... Cleanup:,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 articlesKannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate:Collaborations of the Month,Notice board,Category AdoptionsTo do,Version 1.0 assessment,India Portal,Life in India,India quick linksIndian Wikipedians,More... Requested images:Ilaiyaraaja,M. S. Subbulakshmi,R. K. Narayan,Free image ofAarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps fromWikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found atList of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v •e •d •h •w

News from Indian-language Wikipedias TheBengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According toList of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages. The uploading of Tamil technical words donated byTamil Virtual University to theTamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by theGovernment of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to theWorld Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list oflargest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in theWiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life. TheHindi 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 theWikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed byMicrosoft Research. Malayalam wikimedianSanthosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of theMalayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedianShiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 oncreation of offline Wiki content.

Community news Mumbai andDelhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead andBishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later,Hyderabad also held its first meetup. Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at theCentre for Internet and Society, with thenineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of thecommunity 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. Wikipedia founderJimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by apresentation to members of the public at thethird Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010. The firstWikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups inBangalore andChennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians inDelhi 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 memberBishakha Datta and Indian WikipedianSrinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on theWikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions Please addWikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. Two currentfeatured articles,2007 Samjhauta Express bombings andEconomy of India have been nominated for reviewshere andhere respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! 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. Aseries of discussions are underway on theneutrality of theFamine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join theWikimedia India mailing list and theIRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are availablehere. 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! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Signed... SBC-YPR,Sodabottle (Editors) Tinucherian (Distributor) This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

This newsletter is automatically delivered byUser:Od Mishehu AWB, operated byעוד מישהוOd Mishehu09:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,Effer!WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members pagehere. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk)04:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Effer, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see ourOfficial website, theFacebook event and ourScholarship form. But the activities start now with the100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part ofWikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you foryour contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles requireassessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, aTag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate fromPart One of the Assessment Guide.Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on theTag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

ssriram_mt (talk) &AshLin (talk) (Drive coordinators)

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User:Effer/China as an emerging superpower, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Effer/China as an emerging superpower and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content ofUser:Effer/China as an emerging superpower during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.SchmuckyTheCat (talk)19:01, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the AFD tag from this draft, as the AFD tag doesn't work in the userspace. I also figured you did not want a newly created draft deleted for no stated reason. If you do eventually want this page deleted, just post{{db-u1}} and someone will take care of it. Thanks,UltraExactZZ^Said~Did13:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove the picture of a Lexington hotel from theVantage Hospitality? How is it not "representative" of the chain?Ten Pound Hammer •^{(What did I screw up now?)}03:45, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day, Effer, from theWikipedia Birthday Committee!Have a great day!Vatsan34 (talk)18:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am reaching out to you based on your listing atWikipedia:User_page_design_center/Help_and_collaboration/Participants. I have been on extended wiki break for some time and upon returning was surprised to see that my whole set of User Talk page archives had disappeared. It is so neatly gone that I am even wondering whether my 2-3 pages of archives were just an imagination on my side! Are you aware if something drastic was done to eliminate User Talk page archives in the last few years or have any other tips?Deepraj |Talk12:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strike that. There is an internal wiki in my organisation where I had my archive. Sorry for the bother.Deepraj |Talk13:53, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WishingEffer a very happy birthday on behalf of theBirthday Committee!Chris Troutman (talk)01:32, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. Voting in the2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please reviewthe candidates' statements and submit your choices onthe voting page.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's been almost an year since "Indian collaboration of the month" was active. Firstly we need to restart this as soon as possible for development of India-related articles to greater heights. Themembers page was blanked, where many of them are inactive. This mass message is to all the members of WikiProject India, about this and interested editors interested willsign up. After this message gets delivered, we'll wait for 7 days before we start a discussion under a thread on the collaboration's talk page, among the members. The discussion will include what to clean-up of sub-pages, a new set of guidelines for smooth and uninterrupted functioning of the collaboration etc. Please keep all the discussions under this thread only, so that it will easier for future reference.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's been almost an year since "Indian collaboration of the month" was active. Firstly we need to restart this as soon as possible for development of India-related articles to greater heights. Themembers page was blanked, where many of them are inactive. This mass message is to all the members of WikiProject India, about this and interested editors interested willsign up. After this message gets delivered, we'll wait for 7 days before we start a discussion under a thread on the collaboration's talk page, among the members. The discussion will include what to clean-up of sub-pages, a new set of guidelines for smooth and uninterrupted functioning of the collaboration etc. Please keep all the discussions under this thread only, so that it will easier for future reference.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to join theIndian military history work-group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject. This group is to exclusively deal with the topics related to Indian military. If you're interested, pleaseadd you name to the participants list. Ignore if you are already a member.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)14:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are requested to participate in thediscussion of Wiki Loves Indian defence services on the talk page of WikiProject India.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)04:44, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. Voting in the2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please reviewthe candidates and submit your choices on thevoting page.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings,

It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria.For more information and link to survey form, please visitTalk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India).MediaWiki message delivery (talk)12:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and

(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.

• Apply at:Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program#Apply for support
• Last date for submitting applications is 11th February 2018, 11:59 IST.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk)08:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In 2017 – 2018, theWikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with theCentre for Internet and Society (CIS),Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:

• Sign up at:Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Participants
• List of the articles can be referred at:Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Topics
• Submit/report your articles/contributions at:https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-en
• For more details, rules, FAQ etc. kindly refer:Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest

Looking forward your participation, all the best.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)on behalf ofKrishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk •mail)at22:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]

WikiProject Portals has been rebooted.

You are invited to rejoin.

You definitely want to see this. Major undertaking underway:

Operation: Upgrade portals

Your input is needed.

Sincerely,   —The Transhumanist  14:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for joining thePortals WikiProject.

Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it...

The WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one!

As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide.

RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course.

The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for anyMfDs that follow the closing of the RfC.

You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list.

We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better.

But we're not quite ready to start this yet.

To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc.

You can help us figure this out atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about news sections.

Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time.

We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about selective transclusion in intros.

There are 3 major areas of activity right now:

There are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list.

The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found atPortal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick.

In addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it.

That can be done atWikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Watchlist.

There are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come.

Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on.

There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, onselective transclusion.

I hope to see you on thetalk page.

In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections.

Watch for these discussions on theWikiproject's talk page.

Get ready, get set, go!   —The Transhumanist  22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: The main example given at the RfC of the problems of portals wasPortal:Cricket. Therefore, it's the top priority portal to update. Please lend a hand. -TT

We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily.

Attention portal maintainers!

There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called{{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you.

It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale orfork.

It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the LuaModule:Excerpt supporting it.

Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across.

To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt ofa discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:

• This new template is fantastic. I've added it to the intro sections of the portals on Australian cities (egP:PER) and it works brilliantly. My compliments to its creators. It can probably also be used in other sections of many portals (eg "Selected article" and "Selected biography"), and, for that reason, will probably make the task of maintaining portals a great deal easier.Bahnfrend (talk)09:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you for being so brave.Portal:Adelaide/Intro just got a lot simpler!Certes (talk)10:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos on a wonderful template.   —The Transhumanist  03:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is amazing stuff. I'm going to get to work on using it on the selected content at most ofthese portals very soon.WaggersTALK13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a comment in thethe April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it.

What's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it...

*poof*

Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes!

I wish...

1. ...thatPortal:Contents/Portals becomes up-to-date.  (The missing entries are listed on the talk page, with instructions).
2. ...the WikiProject to haveArticle Alerts.  ({{WikiProject Portals}} templates have already been placed on all portal talk pages).
3. ...thatPortal:Cricket becomes a shining example of portal excellence.  (It was the main example of a crappy and unmaintained portal at the RfC).

Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals!   —The Transhumanist  08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out thewatchlist.

This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at theNewsletter archive.

The top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system isPortal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia.

About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this.

We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are atPortal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work").

Thank you.

We're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes!

I have awarded Certes with a portals barnstaron his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt &Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself.

Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast.

By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:

Thanks You very much!. Those are fantastic and great templates! I transferred them to Arabic Wikipedia and they do amagic great job. I worked to improve portal anatomy here and i do every thing i can to improve it and i am very sad for the nomination for deletion of portals :(. I am glad to be member on WikiProject Portals and i added my name with pleasure. Kind regards

As you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles.

This past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict...

It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages.

The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages.

None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing.

Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up.

The discussion was closed as "no action necessary".

After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:

Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac

Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...

1. Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
2. As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
3. Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
4. The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
5. I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.

Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever. The Transhumanist

The main advancement we've made so far is applyingselective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, areTemplate:Transclude lead excerpt andTemplate:Transclude random excerpt.

Excerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed.

Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this.

Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages).

There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them.

It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools.

Since the reboot, a new portal has been created:

Portal:Limited recognition

Some central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
• User:The Transhumanist (there's a fair amount of portal project traffic on my talk page these days)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4
• Wikipedia:Portal:Portal Example portal. And funny.
• Portal:Contents/Portals
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Culture and the arts
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Geography and places
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Health and fitness
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/History and events
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Infobox
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Intro
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Mathematics and logic
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Natural and physical sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/People and self
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Philosophy and thinking
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Portal nav footer
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Reference
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Religion and belief systems
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Society and social sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Technology and applied sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Topic

There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon.

Hope to see you there. Sincerely,   —The Transhumanist  06:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks...

2018-05-11:preparations are being made to close the RfC. SeeWikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals.

When there, be sure to notice the consultation link.

We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It'sPortal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice.

Our main objectives currently, are:

1. Replace static excerpts with selective transclusions, so that the excerpts always stay fresh (that is, match the source content). We are now doing this on the portal base page as much as possible, to reduce the number of subpages that are needed. See #2...
2. Migrate the functions of subpages to the portal base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space. We aim to make these obsolete by using templates and other calls from the portal base pages.
3. Improve portal design to make portals self-update. Semi-dynamic sections update from a static list, as used in{{Transclude random excerpt}}. Fully-dynamic sections would update from a list maintained elsewhere on Wikipedia, like a category. We haven't found a way to do this yet, other than to create a bot (which we will probably need to do).

The intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it.

We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's alittle more to it...

For instructions, see:Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page.

Please skipPortal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand.

One of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template{{Wikimedia for portals}} directly on the portal base page.

This has been done for several hundred portals so far.

SeeWikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage for instructions.

Certes figured out how...

{{subst:Text|<category|tree>}}{{subst:PAGENAME}}{{subst:Text|</categorytree>}}

For more information, see the threadWikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Rendering PAGENAME inside categorytree tag doesn't work (it does now).

In the meantime, see ya around the portals!   —The Transhumanist  15:33, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We are at 74 members. If you know anyone who might find this WikiProject interesting, please invite them.

TheRfC was closed May 11th, and a closing statement was posted May 12th which says "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time."

Some major activities that we are in the middle of include:

• Adding themissing existing portals to the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals. Instructions are on thetalk page. There are about 125 portals left to be processed. (There were 400). Keep up the good work!
• Development discussions on how to migrate the subpages to the base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space, associated with the various sections on a typical portal. We are trying to obsolete them section type by section type. Currently, we're working onobsoleting the intro subpages and the"selected articles" subpages. Please join in.

• The list of portals not ready to be listed on the main list can be found atWikipedia:WikiProject Portals#These are not listed yet (scroll down to see them - they are markedNot ready). They are incomplete. If you want a specific portal to work on, please consider choosing one from that list.
• Over the years, some incomplete portals (portals under construction) got added toPortal:Contents/Portals. Therefore, every portal listed there needs to be inspected, and any that are incomplete should be removed from that list and added to the not ready list atWikipedia:WikiProject Portals#These are not listed yet (scroll down to see it). OnPortal:Contents/Portals, I'm already almost done inspecting the portals in the culture section, and so you can skip those. The types of things to look for are empty sections (most will have a redlinked subpage), lack of "selected" sections, portal stubs with just an intro and end sections, and very poor layout (like seriously unbalanced columns).

During his work on portals, Broter found a quote randomizer. It is{{Random quotation}}.

Broter has transformed thePortal:Community of Christ so it is comprised of only 3 pages in portal space: the base page, itsbox-header subpage, and itsbox-footer subpage. Its other other subpages are now obsolete and are waiting for deletion. Nice job, Broter!

Well, that's all for now. See ya around the portals.   —The Transhumanist  06:38, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions,Wpgbrown,Cactus.man,JLJ001, andWumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on theWikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

{{Transclude selected current events}} is ready to be tested in some actual portals. LetEvad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews.

Thank you, Evad.

Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please checkWikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

• Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy ofMozart834428196. See also,the discussion.

Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft atUser:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at:Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines

There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents atPortal:Contents/Portals.

See:Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update.

Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...

• Portal:Quidditch survived its2nd deletion nomination
• Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica didthe same

Current deletion discussions are posted on ourWikiProject page.

While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per{{Db-p1}} or{{Db-p2}}). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed atPortal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in ourwatchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

{{Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed}}

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list atPortal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found atPortal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope to see you there!

These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon.   —The Transhumanist  00:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined!   —The Transhumanist  01:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see ournewsletter archive.

A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:

• Evad37
• Checkingfax
• Grey Wanderer
• Voceditenore
• TestPAKISTAN
• Godsy
• Greatedits1
• Charlesdrakew
• Ww2censor
• Simon Burchell
• TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval fromWP:DRV.

This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two.Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

I've contacted all of the other opposers of theRfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to theinterviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out ournewsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see atour operations (on our talk page).

It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:

• Portal:Plymouth
• Portal:Bedfordshire
• Portal:Suffolk
• Portal:Norfolk
• User:JLJ001/tag
• Template:Non-standard portal flag
• Template:Portal flag

• Intro –{{Transclude lead excerpt}}
• Selected article –{{Transclude random excerpt}}
• In the news –{{Transclude selected current events}}
• Associated Wikimedia –{{Wikimedia for portals|species=no|voy=no}}
• Categories –{{#tag:categorytree|{{PAGENAME}}}}

Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings perWikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of theportals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, atPortal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval fromDeletion review to rebuild).

• Portal:Juanes – seethe discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on ourWikiProject page).

• Portal:Toys

There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project.   —The Transhumanist  12:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Effer. Voting in the2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please reviewthe candidates and submit your choices on thevoting page.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Sony PlayStation, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sony PlayStation and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content ofPortal:Sony PlayStation during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.UnitedStatesian (talk)14:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey,Effer. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!Mjs1991 (talk)05:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Namaste, Effer. We would like to inform you about the recent changes to the WikiProject. As you may know, theold newsletter for WikiProject India ceased circulation in 2010. Now we havere-launched the newsletter in a new way. As a member, you are cordially invited tosubscribe to the newsletter. Thank you.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk)18:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From theBirthday Committee,CAPTAIN RAJU^(T)07:24, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Effer. You are invited to join the newWikiProject India 10,000 Challenge, a challenge which aims to see 10,000 improvements, destubs, and creations for Indian articles, covering every state of India and topic. Articles on all related topics are welcome. We need numbers to make this work and do something extraordinary for India on Wikipedia! Every 100 articles submitted will be copied into the wider Asian challenge. Sign up on the page if interested and start contributing! If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by: {{subst:WikiProject India/The 10,000 Challenge Invite|~~~~}} Thanks,MediaWiki message delivery (talk)03:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

Have a very happy birthday on your special day!

Best wishes,CAPTAIN RAJU^(T)11:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From theBirthday Committee,CAPTAIN RAJU^(T)08:53, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]