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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.
Article statistics and to-do lists
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Article Statistics

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colspan="2" rowspan="2" | India
articles		colspan="6" | Importance
{{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance India articles|Top}}{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance India articles|High}}{{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance India articles|Mid}}{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance India articles|Low}}{{No-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance India articles|No}}Total
rowspan="12" | Quality
{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class India articles|FA}}

| 19 || 20 || 16 || 10 || 8 || 73

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

| 1 || 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 9

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

| || 2 || 3 || 3 || || 8

{{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

Total

| 222 || 533 || 1226 || 3757 || 34837 || 40575

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Complete To-Do List

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Current proposals and discussions
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From the Editors
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    Did You Know?
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  • ... that India was the 44th [http://stats.grok.se/en/top most visited page on Wikipedia] in February 2008 and it received 706,558 [http://stats.grok.se/en/200805/India visitors] in May 2008?
  • ... that if you need any help, advice, or have any announcements to make regarding India-related articles then you can do it here?

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