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• user:Pruthvi.vallabh/sachay_mata
• user:Pruthvi.vallabh/charans

Hi,

As I said on the comments page, the article very weak in maintaining neutral point of view. The sentences like "They are highly revered for their unflinching readiness for martyrdom, bravery in war, high literary sense and "deep loyalty to patrons."" are unacceptable in an encyclopedia. The article is everywhere pro-Charans and a thorough copyedit is needed to make the article neutral. There is also a lot of original research in this article like "Charans respect bravery, loyalty and truth more than life." Also, I am quite certain that Charan mataji.jpg violates copyrights and is not made by, Karan gadhavi. Same is true for Karaniji.jpg. In addition to them, there needs to be a dedicated section for history right from the beginning to present times. A section on social and ecomonic condition of Charans today is also required. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)※

• Thanks Ambuj, I am presently somewhat busy. But will pay attention to your comments pruthvi 19:55, 27 October 2006 (UTC)※

Banna, Some fool is reverting rajput page to his version. Please help restore it to the correct version which is: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rajput&oldid=102614732

Regards, Kshitij

on the article of Bafna,i say that i writte on Bafna FOR MY web site of Bafnawadi.com and i am the owner of that.so there is no issue of copyright.please see SANJAY BAFNA

Thanks Sanjay to clarify this. Often authors do not automatically hold the copyright of material for their articles. If web-site belongs to you. Or you have agreement with web-site about copyright, in that case I would suggest you should write something like this on talk page of article, 'I own copyrights for the material of so and so web-site and giving it on this article under GFDL. pruthvi 16:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)※

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I confirm that I am the same user on commons Pruthvi.Vallabh pruthvi 04:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)※

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Hello Pruthvi.vallabh,

Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election. The Election Committee regretfully informs you that your previous vote was received in error and will be struck according to the election rules, described below.

The Election Committee regretfully announces today that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by June 1 to be eligible to vote.

The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third party election partner) initially were wrong, and one of your account was eventually included to our initial list. There was a bug in the edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with 201/more edits, instead of 400 or more edits. So large numbers of people were qualified according to the software who shouldn't be. The bug has been fixed and an amended list was sent to SPI already.

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Hi,

I saw that you have marked the image

http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Harilalupadhyay.gif

as possible copyright infringement.

I admire the way you are continuously monitoring the stuff to keep wikipedia the most reliable source without violating copyright rules.

Though, as i have mentioned on the image page. That I am the owner of the site harilalupadhyay.org and hence i can claim the image as self created. I am permitting wikipedia to use it under GPL. The comments you can find on the image page as well. I am worried that why the image is not unmarked yet!!!

Please let me know in case I need to provide any further clarification from my side.

-Jiten Upadhyay

Hi,

I saw that you have marked the image

http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Harilalupadhyay.gif

as possible copyright infringement.

I admire the way you are continuously monitoring the stuff to keep wikipedia the most reliable source without violating copyright rules.

Though, as i have mentioned on the image page. That I am the owner of the site harilalupadhyay.org and hence i can claim the image as self created. I am permitting wikipedia to use it under GFDL. The comments you can find on the image page as well. I am worried that why the image is not unmarked yet!!!

Please let me know in case I need to provide any further clarification from my side.

-Jiten Upadhyay —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gujaratiauthor (talk • contribs) 16:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)※

Thanks for donating an image of Shri Harilal Upadhyay under GFDL, indeed he is a great author and his article should carry a good image of him. I am going to remove the copyright violation tag from his image however I am afraid that will not be useful. Because once marked as copyright violation there should be a reasonable way to decide on whether edits done in the name of Jiten Upadhayay (copyright holder) are indeed done by Jiten Upadhyay. In brief either your web-site should mention that the said image is available under GFDL or you should send an e-mail to wikipedia from the e-mail address shown on your web-site that you are releasing said image under GFDL. Please follow the instruction at following page Copyright_problems#Copyright_owners_who_submitted_their_own_work_to_Wikipedia

Sorry for inconvenience pruthvi (talk) 19:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)※

Hi Pruthvee,

Thanks for the prompt response. Can you provide me the E-Mail address of wikipedia where I need to send the confirmation from my E-Mail address mentioned on the site.

I appreciate your suggestion to have better Image of Late Shri Harilal Upadhyay on the article page. I will try to update with better alternate in near future.

Ok I got it ...

permissions-en at wikimedia dot org

I will send confirmation message here

Regards

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gujaratiauthor (talk • contribs) 00:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)※

I finally assessed your article - sorry about the delay (of 2 months!!) Unfortunately, it wasn't promoted to a B-class. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or comments about assessment in general, or are replying to the comments here. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)※

Hello..Good assesement on the Mangalore Article. Since, you have assesed the Mangalore article and you have gone through the Mangalore Article, why don't you yourself assess the article at XIV:Good article nominations#Places. GA status requires more detailed review but doesn't always require a very experienced reviewer. Any editor who has not contributed significantally to the Article can take it up. Your minor contribution will help WikiProject India and it will be even your first professional assesement on XIV. Remember, the guidelines for GA is not as stringent as that for a FA.

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(a) images used are tagged with their copyright status, and fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and (b) the images are appropriate to the topic, and have suitable captions.-->>>>>>Kensplanet (talk) 12:51, 13 March 2008 (UTC)※

Thanks for inviting to assess Mangalore articles for good article category. Tomorrow onward I am going on vacation and wouldn't be accessing internet. I would be able to do it only after returning from vacation. Meanwhile if someone else does the assessment then good else I will do it. pruthvi (talk) 19:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)※

Hi Pruthvi.vallabh,

I need your comment, and help for the expansion of the article if you can. I have been trying to finish the Syngas Fermentation which is a part of Wikiproject Energy Development. Could you please look at the article, and do your best?

Thanks

Ferit Isik 15:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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I don't know why this image shows me as uploader. I haven't uploaded it. Only edit I made was to mention that this image may be violating personality right. If it is violating copyrights please delete it. pruthvi (talk) 04:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)※

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Please READ the fair use stamp tag.

"It is believed that the use of postage stamps to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)"

Do NOT restore the stamp, unless you start an article on the stamp. This can't be used in the biography of the subject of the stamp. Thank you. --Ragib (talk) 05:40, 26 August 2008 (UTC)※

I believe you are mentioning Dula Bhaya Kag article. The image is used to illustrate the stamp and hence constitutes fair use. I do not agree that stamp must have separate article to constitute fair use. Unless there is consensus of editors/administrators to remove the said image, I will restore the image. pruthvi (talk) 09:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)※

You are right that Internet use of the spelling 'Malkauns' does not necessarily justify it. However, many reference works on Hindustani music use the spelling 'Malkauns', as do covers for recorded media (LPs, cassettes, CDs). I remember chatting with the Gundecha bandhu (dhrupadiyas) sometime back and them also referring to the raga as 'Malkauns'. I am well aware of the origin of the name 'Malkaush', and it is quite possible that the preferred spelling has changed over the years, but in that case we should use the most commonly used spelling. This happens with other ragas also, for example Iman/Yaman has more than one accepted spelling. Just because Iman was the original spelling doesn't mean the article should be titled 'Iman'; we should go with current usage. FUtheresa (talk) 15:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)※

Thanks for your reply. I agree that spelling/pronunciations are not a static thing, they keep on changing with time. At the same time, I do not feel that popularity of "Malkauns" spelling is grown to such an extent it has out numbered "Malkaush". However, this is not the point I want to debate here. Often use of spellings are matter of personal preferences rather than their correctness, accuracy or popularity. Whether one should use american spelling or british spelling, same logic applies in our debate. The consensus is that contributors should be allowed to contribute in their preferred spellings. Once article is grown at least B-class at that point matter to be decided based on number of contributions, references and overall consensus. I request to leave "Malkaush" title as it is until it is at least B-class. At that point, article will have sufficient number of references and contributors to decide on popularity of spelling. pruthvi (talk) 04:54, 22 October 2008 (UTC)※

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I looked it over and it looks great - thanks for your input. Nano Dan (talk) 18:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)※

User:Pruthvi.Vallabh/charans, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at XIV:Miscellany for deletion/User:Pruthvi.Vallabh/charans and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Pruthvi.Vallabh/charans 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. pruthvi (talk) 05:01, 16 December 2008 (UTC)※

Hi. You don't need to use MfD to delete pages in your own userspace. Just add {{db-user}} to the page, and it will be deleted. However, you shouldn't just copy and paste articles you have developed in your userspace to mainspace. You should use the move function to move the article, and then delete the redirect. This maintains the edit history. // roux   05:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)※

Thanks for clearing the matter pruthvi (talk) 05:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)※

Welcome back? :) How are things? Hope you are well. Was wondering if you will be active for the rest of this month, and January? Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC)※

Thanks for the message. I have reduced my activity on wikipedia, but I will be active for this and next month. pruthvi (talk) 08:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)※

Hi Pruthvi. Thanks for bringing it to my notice. Sundarbot is a standard m:Interwiki bot. So, I think it might have done that because of some wrong linking in one of the wikipedias. A permanent fix would be to remove that erronneous link. But, let me see how I can exclude that page alone in the interim. Thanks again. -- Sundar 06:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)※

I started a discussion about the quality scale. --Redtigerxyz 09:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)※

Would appreciate it if you could help.

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Hi there! Could you please help in getting photo of Mallika Sarabhai. Thank you. -Altruism 11:34, 14 April 2009 (UTC)※

I am trying, hope will get it soon. pruthvi (talk) 11:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)※

Thank you. -Altruism 05:56, 15 April 2009 (UTC)※

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Project News WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on XIV, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16. Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010. What's New? Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations! Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

Current proposals and discussions Please add XIV 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 underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in XIV articles. Please participate and add your comments. Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs. Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese XIV by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue. A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments. Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions. The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil XIV 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 include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha 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 the Members 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 the next 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 Gujjula Irrigation in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... 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. Pachauri More... 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 XIV articles, Marathi XIV articles, Hindi XIV articles, Sanskrit XIV articles, Tamil XIV articles Kannada XIV articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List 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 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 XIV editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki. What's New? Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16. The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc. The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011. In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue. Complete To Do List 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 Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... 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 XIV articles, Maithili XIV articles, Telugu XIV articles, Marathi XIV articles, Hindi XIV articles, Sanskrit XIV articles, Tamil XIV articles Kannada XIV articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

News from Indian-language Wikipedias The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages. The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the 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 largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the 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. The Hindi XIV and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam XIV CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news 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. Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the XIV Foundation. XIV founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third XIV 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 XIV held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months. Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions Please add XIV 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 current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here 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. A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the 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 XIV: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.

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Hi. The XIV:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland XIV:The 10,000 Challenge and XIV:WikiProject Africa/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 South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like XIV: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. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current XIV:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:19, 21 October 2016 (UTC)※

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