Thanks Ashwin for the kind words.
Btw there is nothing better than *if* it can done manually :)
But I am going pile up a few more on to the Unasseessed category by running
TinucherianBot on India related article categories, in the coming days.
WP:INDIA crossing 1 lakh India related articles will make it "bigger than"
any other Indic language Wikipedia itself :)
All the best wishes !
-TC
2012/2/27 Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Thank you Tinu. For those new to the WikiProject, Tinu
Cherian's efforts
are the heroic story of one man trying to come to terms with challenges
larger than he should have to tackle. Faced with the huge backlog, Tinu
programmed a bot and let it do whatever he could so that the lack of human
judgement could be partially remedied. If this were the only thing Tinu
did, his name would be carved in stone in the WikiProject India Hall of
Fame. But Tinu has done this & much more - more than I can say here, more
than I even know.
On behalf of everyone, I thank Tinu for this stupendous effort & all the
other great things he has been doing to this day.
Its humbling to know that he has done all that.
But the bot way is not the way to Nirvana.
Bots cannot judge. Only humans can.
So the Tag & Assess Way is the way to go. There are as of now at least 50
active Members of WikiProject India. I'm sure there are more, since we have
more than 60 subscribers to this list alone. If each of us agrees to sit
down & assess only 200 articles, over the next month, that is less than
eight a day, we can clear 10,000 in one go! That's more than half of the
entire backlog!
Its highly doable with the power of numbers! But for that everyone has to
volunteer to try. Don't be afraid or shy. We are there to guide you and
show you how. I promise you fun, learning and barnstars/awards.
This is doable manually & not a big deal. We shall be making a user guide
to show you how to do it. It is easy to learn to judge.
We will have to begin manually, at first. It is no big deal! It is all cut
& paste, hardly any typing.
Later on YuviPanda will be creating a simple to use form in which we will
be able to do this assessment semi-automatically i.e.
* by mouse clicks, we can load a new talk page for assessment,
* choose options by ticking in the tick-boxes or option boxes,
* by single button press, our assessments can be put on the the talk page.
So what are you waiting for? :) Join us, we are good people, nice &
helpful.
We have only six names here as of now -
AshLin, Animeshkulkarni, ansuman, Around The Globe, Anbu121, sarvajna
Please pitch in and help us. Enlist your name here on the India
Noticeboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_t…
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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2012/2/27 <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com>
Will this cover the whole backlog or will we need to oversee/do a drive
anyways?
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From: tinucherian(a)gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:11:12 +0530
To: wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Unassessed WP India articles
How about this ? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_t…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_t…
-TC
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