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== Wikimedia Stories Project ==


Aloha!

My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation working on collecting stories of Indian Wikipedians for the 2011 fundraiser.

I found your name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore 

I’ll be traveling to India from the 12th -20th of November to conduct face to face interviews with Indian Wikipedians. I’ll be in Bangalore from November 12-15 and in Mumbai for WikiConference India from November 17 - 20.

If you are interested, and would like to schedule an interview with me, please mark your time and place of interview on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Indiastorytelling or send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) with any questions or concerns you may have.

If you feel that you’d like to talk to me, but wont be able to make it to either of these locations and would like to schedule a Skype or Telephone interview, please email me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Cheers,
Victor

PS
If you know of anyone with whom I should speak please let me know :)
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==[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Astro Vaasthu Educational and Charitable Trust]]==
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== 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 [[WP:ASSESS|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012/Guide - Part 1|Part One of the Assessment Guide]].
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012/Guide - Part 2|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012|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)

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== Requesting your input re the Wikipedia Astrology Project ==

I have joined the Wikipedia Astrology project today and am contacting you as a listed member of that project.  There has been a proposal to consider the project dead and merge it with 12 other alternative subjects into a new wiki project which would oversee all aspects of fringe. I think it would be a shame to lose the astrology project on the basis that it has no active participants without contacting the members directly and exploring ideas for new ways to work together on astrology-related pages. It would be very useful if you would  [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astrology#Interest_in_reviving_this_project|visit the discussion]] and let us know if your interest in the project is still active, or what it might take to rekindle it. Regards [[User:Tento2|Tento2]] ([[User talk:Tento2|talk]]) 09:25, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

== 337 ==

That is the number of documented edits you have, including none in your native tongue.<br />[[Special:Contributions/99.247.1.157|99.247.1.157]] ([[User talk:99.247.1.157|talk]]) 18:10, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

:Ok, I knew that. And your point is? Byrappa 20:15, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

== Grandmaster Editor  ==

You have the template on your user page saying you are a Grandmaster Editor but you've only been editing since 2008 and to be a Grandmaster Editor, you have to have at least 96,000 edits and 12 years of service. <small><span style="text-shadow:4px 4px 15px #00F,-4px -4px 15px #49F;">[[User:Lady Lotus|LADY LOTUS]]</span> • <span style="text-shadow:4px 4px 15px #F80,-4px -4px 15px #F08;">[[User talk:Lady Lotus|TALK]]</span></small> 19:35, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

:Hello <small><span style="text-shadow:4px 4px 15px #00F,-4px -4px 15px #49F;">[[User:Lady Lotus|LADY LOTUS]]</span></small>, I want to clarify this point as you aren't the first person to ask this particular question. I have been an editor on Wikipedia since 2001, have had three accounts previously, and have, at times when necessary, used friends accounts, to make over 200,000 edits on Wikipedia since it's inception. This isn't even counting the thousands I made without logging in. I quit Wikipedia in mid-2007, only to return in 2008, and re-register an account, as my old ones seemed to be deleted. Hence, I am already eligible for the "Grandmaster Editor First-Class (or Lord High Togneme Laureate)" (Which I will add now), and next year will be eligible for "Vanguard Editor (or Lord Gom, the Highest Togneme of the Encyclopedia)". Hope this clarifies the (non)issue. I apologise for the delay in replying back. Thank you. Byrappa 19:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

==Editathon and Meetup invitations==
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==Europe 10,000 Challenge invite==
Hi. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge]] has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland [[Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge]]. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like [[Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)]]. For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon]], sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --[[User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|''Che dicono a Signa?'']]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Ser Amantio di Nicolao|'''Lo dicono a Signa.''']]</sub> 02:41, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

== Re-initiating INCOTM ==

It's been almost an year since "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month|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. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Members|members 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 will [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Members&action=edit&section=3 sign 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.  [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
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== Re-initiating INCOTM ==

It's been almost an year since "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month|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. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Members|members 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 will [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_the_month/Members&action=edit&section=3 sign 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.  [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history|Indian 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, please [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Incubator/Indian_military_history&action=edit&section=2 add you name to the participants list]. Ignore if you are already a member.  [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 14:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
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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 visit [[:m:Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)|Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)]]'''. [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 12:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
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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:
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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. 

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In 2017 – 2018, the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and Google working in close coordination with the [[Centre for Internet and Society (India)|Centre for Internet and Society]] (CIS), [[:m:WMIN|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]]
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