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[[Delhi]]

When two users disagree about an edit, they generally discuss it on the talk page until they come up with a solution; they don't just revert each other. In fact we have a rule that prohibits edit-warring over an article. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

HTML formatting

Hello... I am here to ask a small favor of you. When you're formatting text with <i>, <b> or some font parameter, please, remember to close it with </i>, </b> or </font>. Otherwise the posts that follow your posts get all wrong. Thanks. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

:Great header. What does that mean? Aditya(talk • contribs) 05:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway

A tag has been placed on :Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{tl|hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kannie | talk 04:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Requests

Just a request: Please could you avoid using italics, colour or bold for your messages?

The + or - indicate the size in bytes that the last edit changed. If content is removed, the page changed by -X bytes. If new content was added, the page changed by +X bytes. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Highways passing from Delhi

Please be aware that I've moved Highways passing from Delhi, which I see you were in the middle of working on, to User:190319m9/Highways passing from Delhi to keep it from being speedy deleted. Feel free to moe it back when it's finished. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop blanking the redirects, if more then one item fits, use the disambig templates. Q T C 20:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

*Reply to OverlordQ, I am new here so please tell me how to use disambig templates.

Manik (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

:: WP:DISAMBIG can explain it better then I can. Q T C 20:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

::: OK, Thanks for the assistance. :)

Manik (talk) 20:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

:::: Basically look here for an example. Q T C 20:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Delhi

Delhi is a featured article. None of the other Indian city articles have a climate table, and previous attempts have been reverted. A table is distracting and unnecessary and too detailed. It would be best to place the table in the Climate of Delhi page not on the Delhi page. Nikkul (talk) 20:19, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Mainla2.jpg

Thanks for uploading :Image:Mainla2.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 01:06, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Delhi Climate

Please do not keep reverting my edits. Having a table that shows the weather for EACH month is unnecessary. The article is supposed to be a summary, with a link to more detailed info on the top of the section. The table belongs in Climate of Delhi.Not on the Delhi page.

Plz look at ALL other featured Indian city articles; NONE of them have a climate table. Look at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Darjeeling, Kochi, Kolkata, Malwa, Technopark, Gangtok, Kalimpong all r WP:FA. Please stop reverting my edits. Nikkul (talk) 05:04, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for your kind words, I will be editing many of the articles about Delhi, most of them are vaguely written with a large number of factual inaccuracies. --TvKimi (talk) 04:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Connaught-Place.jpg

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Thank you for uploading :Image:Connaught-Place.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 23:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Mumbai and Delhi infoboxes

To answer your question:

You need to understand the difference between a city, metropolis and metropolitan area. A city is the smallest managed urban unit. In the Indian context, a city and its suburbs together make a metropolis if (usually) managed my a single municipal unit. A city and its surrounding urban areas ie urban areas that directly contribute to its growth and economy eg Thane and New Bombay for Mumbai, is known as a metropolitan area.

The area figures for Mumbai are correct. In the case of Delhi, the area for the entire union territory is included. The NCT is composed of three census towns: Delhi, New Delhi and Delhi Cantonment, and 240 villages. Since everything is clubbed as "Delhi", the figures often get skewed. Mumbai on the other hand is much more simple. It has a city district and a suburban district, and together make up a single municipal metropolis.

For the actual population please see: [http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-104&srt=npan&col=aohdq&va=&pt=c population charts]

Please do not add climatic data on the page. Add it to Climate of Delhi. Such information is superfluous for a summary article.

Regards,

=Nichalp «Talk»= 05:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

:For Mumbai, we take into factor the population of the city district and the suburbs. For Delhi, we can factor in only the population of the city of Delhi. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:TOI.jpg)

25px Thanks for uploading :Image:TOI.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Connaught-Place.jpg)

25px Thanks for uploading :Image:Connaught-Place.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Regarding your signature.

Hello,

If you are not aware, Wikipedia has a strict policy against link spamming. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures#External_links].

Your signature in some of the talk pages, specially here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment#Requesting_an_assessment] has a link to your blog site, which is considered as spamming. You are requested to remove the external link from your signature. As always, you can link to your blog site from your user page. Thank you Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 02:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

No Problem, I've assessed the article Transport in Delhi and given my comments on Talk page. It's still a start class article and a lot should be done to improve it. See my comments on talk page. Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 05:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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

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Project News
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  • Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
  • Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
  • What's Featured and Good?

:*Five new articles were promoted to featured 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 currently one Indian article as a featured article nominee. Two more articles, (Bengali language, Kazi Nazrul Islam) are undergoing featured article reviews. You could help save these two articles by leaving your comments or assisting the involved editors.

:*Three articles are undergoing good article nominations: Anekantavada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Santosh Subramaniam.

  • IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
  • Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
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articles		colspan="6" | Importance
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{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class India articles|FL}}

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{{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class India articles|A}}

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{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class India articles|GA}}

| 4 || 5 || 7 || 12 || 16 || 44

{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class India articles|B}}

| 87 || 128 || 194 || 153 || 263 || 825

{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class India articles|Start}}

| 74 || 208 || 530 || 946 || 2730 || 4488

{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class India articles|Stub}}

| 36 || 159 || 428 || 2540 || 18644 || 21807

{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class India articles|List}}

| || || || || 360 || 360

{{Assessed-Class}}

| 221 || 526 || 1180 || 3665 || 22022 || 27614

{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed-Class India articles|Unassessed}}

| 1 || 7 || 46 || 92 || 12815 || 12961

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

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

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

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

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

    "While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,[http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2009/jun/030609-Wikipedia-Controversy-Church-of-Scientology-IT-Adda-Bangalore.htm 1] reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

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    WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Are you subscribed to [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l wikimediaindia-l] to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at {{IRC|wikipedia-in}} and {{IRC|wikimedia-in}}!

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

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    WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

    Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ANoticeboard_for_India-related_topics&action=historysubmit&diff=361437108&oldid=361415052 large scale disruption] of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

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    If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created [{{ fullurl:Special:Log|type=upload&user=190319m9}} in your upload log]. Unsourced and untagged files may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the file will be deleted 48 hours after 08:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Imzadi 1979 → 08:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

    Delhi Wikipedian

    Hi Manik, I am looking for Delhi based wikipedians for an upcoming meet with someone from the foundation, we are organizing a local community of delhi based wikipedians which someone from the foundation would like to meet, let me know if you are interested in joining. Thanks.--Theo10011 (talk) 13:16, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

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

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    After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

    Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a [https://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter bot] to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to [http://twitter.com/dykindia Twitter] was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.

    What's New?
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    Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

    The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

    The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

    In October there was a heated [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ANoticeboard_for_India-related_topics&action=historysubmit&diff=393196649&oldid=392948652 discussion] in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

    Complete To Do List
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    • The [http://bn.wikisource.org Bengali Wikisource], which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.

    File:Bala 026.jpg in Coimbatore in June 2010.]]

    • The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the [http://ta.wiktionary.org Tamil Wiktionary] was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World 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 of [http://s23.org/wikistats/wiktionaries_html.php largest wiktionaries] and has earned it a place in the [http://www.wiktionary.org Wiktionary 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.

    File:2010-07-11-gdansk-by-RalfR-001.jpg introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.]]

    • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the [http://www.wikibhasha.com/ WikiBhasha] translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
    • Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2010/wiki/Submissions/Creating_offline_version_of_Wiki_content_-_Solutions_and_Challenges creation of offline Wiki content].

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    Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

    File:Wikimeetup19_Blore_0540.JPG, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.]]

    Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the [http://www.cis-india.org/ Centre for Internet and Society], with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

    File:Jimmy Wales Mumbai 31 October 2010.ogg & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)]]

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a [http://www.slideshare.net/HeadStart/jimmy-wales-at-wikipedia-mumbai-meet-3 presentation] to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

    The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

    The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

    Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2010/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_Asia_Project Wikimedia Asia Project].

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    • 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.
    • Join the [http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Wikimedia India mailing list] and the [irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in IRC channel] for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here.

    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!

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    Tinucherian (Distributor)


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

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    Looking forward to more contributions from you!

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    ==Invite to WikiConference India 2011 ==

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    The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
    You can see our Official website, the [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183138458406482 Facebook event] and our [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGNxSzAxUndoOHRGamdDSTFMVGNrd3c6MA#gid=0 Scholarship form].

    But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

    As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

    We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

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    |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | For Wikipedia's 11th Anniversary!

    style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | An invitation for you to come and join us for Wikipedia's 11th Anniversary in Delhi on the 15th Jan 2012: Click here for more details.

    Will be great to see you! :) Nitika.t (talk) 12:58, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

    WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

    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 require assessment, 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, a Tag & 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 from Part 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 the Tag & 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.

    {{User0|ssriram_mt}} & {{User0|AshLin}} (Drive coordinators)

    Delivered per [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&oldid=481419438#Message_to_take_part_in_Assessment_Drive request] on Wikipedia:Bot requests. 00:36, 12 March 2012 (UTC) The Helpful Bot 00:36, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

    [[WP:ACE2015|ArbCom elections are now open!]]

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