Suggestion: I think promotion of IRC channels (#wikimedia-in /
#wikipedia-in) would help collaboration.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
+855 975 529 803
Skype: anirudhsbh
2011/12/13 <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com>
Theres more to this than seems to be on the face of
it. COTM was briefly
a success around 2009 when we had active online editors. Sadly, today we
dont - and that reflects in the response. As you mentioned, Mullaperiyar is
getting attention because its in the news. The real test is getting those
active editors. Announcing it on mailing lists such as this would be
useless if there are no editors who will respond to calls on the list. Here
is where a few IEP editors could possibly fit in, had it been successful.
It would be a perfect opportunity for those newbies to work with veteran
editors and learn tricks of the trade first hand. Then again, you need
veteran editors :) Vicious circle!
For future COTMs, we also need to look at the goal. What do we aim to
achieve by the end of the month? Are we aiming for more FAs/GAs status or
just a Cleanup or an expansion/improvement of a start class article? For
example, however much we work on something in the news like Millaperiyar,
it will be difficult to get it to GA status because its a current topic,
the article will not be stable - a GAR requirement. We will however be able
to clean it up, wikify and expand it, so we need to set out a goal before
selecting the article else COTM seems heading in no direction, atleast to
me.
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:17:20 +0530
From: ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] CTOM - Manmohan Singh
Just a quick reminder to the list. its not just Mullaperiyar Dam but also
Manmohan Singh which is up for Collaboration of the Month for December
2011. Mullaperiyar is getting a lot of edits both because of the COTM and
the fact that it is controversial. However, Manmohan Singh has got little
attention so far, except for edits by Pranav Curumsey, some by a newbie and
a few flyby edits.
So please take a little time out for one of the most important topics on
India in Wikipedia.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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