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Welcome!

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Hello, Aksera, andwelcome to Wikipedia!Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being aWikipedian!Pleasesign your nameon talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.


If you need help, check outWikipedia:Questions,ask me on my talk page, or place{{helpme}}on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! —Dwaipayan(talk)17:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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100-word list for your Mother tongue

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Good day! Could you help me and provide translations for the following 100 basic word in your mother tongue. Not in the standard Hindi but in your native local variety (dialect) if you (used to) speak any (and then indicate please how you call your language /dialect and precise location like state –district – town/village). If there aresynonymsor knowndialectalvariants provide them with comments if possible. Also please indicate if you know that certain words areborrowing.You can fill in right here using eitherIPAtranscription or some other spelling you like (just describe your conventions). Thank you in advance! --Koryakov Yuri12:40, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Aksena! (Though I was amazed to find translation not here but on my Talk page!) Actually I'm gathering 100-word lists for as many as possible Indo-Aryan languages to try to build their classification on the firm lexicostatistical basis. Now I have lists for the most standard Indo-Aryan languages but lack many minor ones especially those spoken in the North (Kumauni, Garkhwali, etc.) and also many central varieties (like Eastern Hindi, Bhojpuri, Magadhi, etc). So I've searched the en-Wiki users for their native language and asked several people to help me. So if you know someone whose mother tongue is one of the minor Indo-Aryan languages please let me know. And another thing - is it a trouble for you to spell your translation in Roman letters? Since I could of course do it myself with a Devanagari table in my hands but it takes several hours. --Koryakov Yuri21:54, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
You are very welcome! I am relatively new to Wikipedia and was therefore confused about how replies work. Thanks to you, now I am sure that messages are supposed to be kept on the same page. For minor Indo-Aryan languages, I would suggest you to go to Wikipedia pages of the regions where these languages are spoken and then contact people who have contributed extensively to those pages. For instance, you can visitVaranasipage and ask any major contributor forBhojpuritranslations. Try findingBhojpuritranslations this way. But if you fail, I also happen to knowBhojpuritranslations of some of the words in your list, thanks to my friends living in Varanasi (unfortunately not on Wikipedia). As for roman spellings, please find below the updated list. I hope you understand that, although spelled inanglocharacters, the pronunciations are very different from English words. I am familiar withIPA,however, converting so many words would be a meticulous work requiring a lot of time, which I don't have. Good luck! —Aksera23:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Aksera! And also thanks for your advice. I'll try to follow it. Spelling is quite OK, it's quite enough for my goals. Later when I will process all Indo-Aryan lists I think I will have some questions to you about certain words or their meaning. --Koryakov Yuri16:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • I, me – मै - Mai
  • thou(you, singular) – तुम - Tum
  • we – हम - Hum
  • this – यह - Yeh
  • that – वह - Wah
  • who? – कौन? - Kaun
  • what? – क्या? - Kya
  • not – नहीं - Nahin
  • all – सब - Sab
  • many – बहुत - Bahut
  • one – ऐक - Ek
  • two – दो - Doh
  • big – बड़ा - Bada
  • long – लम्बा - Lamba
  • small – छोटा - Chota
  • woman – औरत - Aurat
  • woman (adult female) - लड़की - Ladki
  • man (adult male) – लड़कॉ - Ladka
  • man (human being) – ऑदमी - Aadmi
  • fish – मछ़िल - Machli
  • bird – िचिड़या - Chidia
  • dog – कुत्ता - Kutta
  • louse– ज़ू - Joo
  • tree – पेड़ - Ped
  • seed – बीज़ - Beej
  • leaf – पत्ता (masculine) / पत्ती (feminine) - Patta / Patti
  • root – ज़ड़ - Jad
  • bark (of a tree) – छ़ाल - Chaal
  • skin – ख़ाल - Khaal
  • meat (flesh) – माँस - Maans
  • blood – ख़ून - Khoon
  • bone – हड्डी - Haddi
  • fat – मोटा (masculine) / मोटी (feminine) - Mota / Moti
  • egg – अंडॉ - Anda
  • horn -ं सींग - Seeng
  • tail – पूंछ़ - Poonch
  • feather (of a bird) – पँख़ - Pankh
  • hair – बाल - Baal
  • head – िसर - Sir
  • ear – कान - Kaan
  • eye – आँख - Aankh
  • nose – नॉक - Naak
  • mouth – मुहॅ - Muh
  • tooth – दाँत - Daant
  • tongue – जीब - Jeebh
  • claw (nail) – नाख़ुन - Naakhun
  • foot – पैर का पंजा - Pair ka Panja
  • knee – घुटना - Ghutna
  • hand – हाथ - Haath
  • belly – पेट - Pet
  • neck – गर्दन - Gardan
  • breast(s) (of a woman) – स्तन - Ss-tan
  • heart – हृदय - Hriday
  • liver – िजगर - Jigar
  • drink (verb) – पीना - Peena
  • eat (verb) – खाना - Khaana
  • bite (verb) – काटना (same translation for cut) - Kaatna
  • see (verb) – देखना - Dekhna
  • hear (verb) – सुनना - Sunna
  • know (verb) – जानना - Jaanna
  • sleep (verb) – सोना (same translation for gold) - Sona
  • die (verb) – मरना - Marna
  • kill (verb) – मारना - Maarna
  • swim (verb) – तैरना - Tairna
  • fly (verb) – ऊड़ना - Udna
  • walk/go (verb) – चलनॉ (walk) / जानॉ (go) - Chalna / Jaana
  • come (verb) – ऑना - Aana
  • lie (down) (verb) – लेटना - Letna
  • sit (verb) – बैठना - Baithna
  • stand (verb) – खड़े होना - Khade hona
  • give (verb) – देना - Dena
  • say (verb) – कहना - Kahna
  • sun – सूरॅज - Suraj
  • moon – चॉँद - Chaand
  • star – िसतार - Sitar
  • water – पानी - Paani
  • rain – बरसात - Barsaat
  • stone – पत्थर - Patthar
  • sand – बालु - Baalu
  • earth – पृथवी - Prithvi
  • cloud – बादल - Baadal
  • smoke – धुँवा - Dhuan
  • fire – ऑग - Aag
  • ash – राखॅ - Raakh
  • burn (trans. verb) – जलना - Jalna
  • road (path) – सड़क - Sadak
  • mountain – पर्वत - Parvat
  • red – लाल - Laal
  • green – हरा - Hara
  • yellow – पीला - Peela
  • white – सफेद् - Safed
  • black – काला - Kaala
  • night – रात - Raat
  • warm (hot) – गरम - Garam
  • cold – ठँडा - Thanda
  • full – पूरा - Poora
  • new – नया - Naya
  • good – अच्छ़ा - Accha
  • round – गोल - Gol
  • dry – सूखा - Sookha
  • name – नाम - Naam

Good work onNational Institutes of Technology

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I have not gone through all the changes or the whole article. However, it looks nice. Thanks for the effort, Keep it up.

One suggestion ishere. You can use various templates for the inline citations (references), though that is not mandatory. You can use templates likeTemplate:Cite newsandTemplate:Cite web.A full list is available atWP:CITET.I have done two such changes. Please see.--Dwaipayan(talk)12:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

request for comment

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Could I borrow your opinion atTalk:Penn?There is an editing dispute over the entry for UPenn on this disambiguation page and I'd like some other folks to weigh in. I feel that listing UPenn as '[University of Pennsylvania], America's first university and a member of the Ivy League located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.' is un-encyclopedic, and instead feel the way discussed on the talk page is better as it is similar to other disambiguation pages for universities.Cornell Rockey19:07, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Audio templates

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Hi, please don't useTemplate:Audio-nohelpalone.

If there are lots of sound files, please useTemplate:Audiofirst, or useTemplate:Inline audio.Thank you. --Kjoonlee22:22, 8 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Indian Scouting

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Can you please help renderTaiyar(Be Prepared), theScout Motto,intoHindi?Chris07:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, my name is Maria Belen and I study at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. I am Ecuadorian but earned a scholarship for may whole major here. I want to know if you are actually studying at the University of Pennsylvania or how many years before did you graduate? It is because I am interested in finding information about how living there is like. I would like to study a MBA at this univeristy or any master or specialization related to Marketing or International Business. I would like to know if there is any support for international students and how it was yu personal experience there.So, if you could help, please feel free to contact me. Hope to hear from you soon,Belen Rios06:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Hello! I am currently working to improve the article on theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,and I need your help. How do you write inHindithe title of the movieSalaam Bombay!?Best regards.BomBom15:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)Reply


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

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Project News
  • Tag & Assess 2008,an assessment drive initiated by theassessment departmentbegan onJune 7,2008and 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 Assessmentwas successfully done usingBot0612in 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?
  • IPL was hoton 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.
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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 improvingarticle quality.A number of the project'sfeatured articlesunderwentfeatured article reviewsover the past year. Of these,DarjeelingandFlag of Indiasurvived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period,Gangtok,Harbhajan Singh,Darjeeling andMysorewere featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse asPolitical history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760),Marwari horseandIravanwere 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 ofgood articles,however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number offeatured listssaw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferencedBiographies 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 to565currently. During February-April 2010, There was alarge scale disruptionofKeralarelated articles by aThrissurbased IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IPBSNLconnection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number ofMalayalamandTamilfilm actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people likeArvind Swamyas 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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  • A discussion is in progressherein order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature ofart musicinstead ofclassical music.Please participate and add your comments.
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

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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 Wikimediahave 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, abotto post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject toTwitterwas 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 Indiawas saved. Meanwhile,Chalukya Dynastyappeared 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 availableand the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means thatarticle alerts for the Indian Wikiprojectwill 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 issuemade 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 heateddiscussionin 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 byHammersoftas 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.

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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 Wikisourcepage, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at theWorld Classical Tamil Conference 2010inCoimbatorein June 2010.
Jimmy Walesintroduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of500 selected articlesduring his key note address atWikimania 2010at Gdansk.
  • TheHindi Wikipediaand 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 theWikiBhashatranslation and contribution toolkit developed byMicrosoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

MumbaiandDelhiheld their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead andBishakha Dattamet up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later,Hyderabadalso held its first meetup.

Arun Ram,Shiju Alexand 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 theCentre for Internet and Society,with thenineteenth meetupin 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.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro byUser:Bishdatta&User:Arunram.(Recorded byUser:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founderJimmy Waleshad an interaction with Wikipedians followed by apresentationto members of the public at thethird Wikipedia meetup in Mumbaion 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 inBangaloreandChennaion November 14, 2010. Wikipedians inDelhialso 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 Dattaand Indian WikipedianSrinivas Guntaco-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on theWikimedia Asia Project.

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011

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Hi Aksera,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see ourOfficial website,theFacebook eventand ourScholarship form.

But the activities start now with the100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part ofWikiProject Indiacommunity 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

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

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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 2012drive-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 Guidewill 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.

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