Wikipedia:WikiProject India

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This page is for WikiProject India. For the notice board for India-related topics, please see WP:INB.

The India WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the republic of India and the history of the Indian subcontinent. The goals of this group is three-fold; to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of India, to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles, to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to India in Wikipedia. The scope of this project includes any article related to India to be a valid topic. To achieve the goals, this project group has developed structural features to help in managing its extensive work. It includes Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialised tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration and Work Groups, which collaborate, on providing content as well as writing articles on specific topics related to India, such as cities, politics and sports.

Contents 1 Participation 1.1 Departments 1.1.1 Outreach 1.1.2 Assessment 1.1.3 Collaboration 1.1.4 Peer review 1.1.5 Photography 1.1.6 Cartography 2 Project organisation 2.1 Project banner 2.2 Userbox 2.3 WikiProject Award 2.3.1 The India Star 3 Templates 3.1 Stubs

[edit] Participation

Project participants are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members. Feel free to add your name and join in the fun.

[edit] Departments

Departments are specific group of members who do the meta work. Tasks include keeping the project going, maintaining the project pages, related portals, assessing articles, participating in peer reviews, managing the consensus within the project and so on. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members may not necessarily do only departmental tasks. They can contribute content as a member of Work Groups as well.

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department is much similar to Esperanza Community. They are a group of Wikipedians who help in strengthening the sense of community in this project. Members' tasks include welcoming new members in the project, helping other editors in the project, managing the newsletters and helping the general project community to be in touch.

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Indian articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP India}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Collaboration

The Indian Collaboration of the week seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every week, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of India (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of India-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Photography

The photography department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs and images for use in India articles.

[edit] Cartography

The cartography department aims to create a collection of high-quality maps for use in India articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

[edit] Project organisation

• Arts and entertainment: Cinema, Literature
• Biography:
• Geography: Districts, Cities, States, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,West Bengal, Bengal
• History: History, Military history
• Religion: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism
• Government: Politics
• Trade & Economy: Trade
• Languages: Classical Tamil, Translation
• Science:
• Demographics: Caste system
• Sports:

[edit] Project banner

Place this WikiProject notice {{WP India}} at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject India. Please refer to Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner for banner usage guidelines.

[edit] Userbox

Add this userbox {{User Wikiproject India}} to your userboxes to direct editors to WikiProject India from your userpage.

[edit] WikiProject Award

If you notice someone making outstanding contributions to this project or any of the descendant WikiProjects, please feel free to give them any of the following barnstars.

[edit] The India Star

Introduced by Ganeshk and designed by DaGizza.

Syntax: {{ subst:The India Star|message ~~~~ }}. It will produce:

		The India Star
		Your message here ~~~~

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on India-related articles, see the list of stubs at Category:India stubs.