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.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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