Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport in India/Archive 1

Archive 1

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National Waterways

Hi, National Waterways articles are very poorly written.Can we cleanup the articles ? --naveenpf (talk) 02:15, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

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Transport in India articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Transport in India articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

New Volunteer coordinator for WikiProject Transport in India

We have been requesting the community at large in general for Volunteer coordinators for all the task forces/daughter projects of WikiProject India. We have also been requesting suitable editors to volunteer for this post. We have been making this request in those WikiProjects where no one can be seen taking up a clear leadership role to champion the cause of the WikiProject.

After a long time, we have found a volunteer for WikiProject Transport in India, User:Rsrikanth05 who has agreed to be the volunteer coordinator. We welcome him in this onerous and prestigious venture and request all Task Force members to cooperate with him. Rsrikanth05 is an enthusiastic and balanced editor. He has 12313 edits since 24 June 2005 and has reviewer, ipblock-exempt and rollbacker rights. He has a challenging task in front of him. The WikiProject has only 67 articles and many more undiscovered ones to steward. The daughter projects have 314 rail and 626 road articles. Please support him not only with moral support but edits, ideas, engagement and encouragement. AshLin (talk) 06:34, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Good to see User:Rsrikanth05 as volunteer coordinator. WP:INTI and sister projects WP:INR and WP:INRI will take new heights with User:Rsrikanth05 coordination-- naveenpf (talk) 06:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

More about volunter coordinators

The volunteer coordinator's roles include:

• Do whatever needs doing in the WikiProject/task force, or getting it done along-with others.
• Do everything that needs doing in the task force, or getting it done along-with others.
• Look after the interests of the task force community in general and the articles in specific.
• Represent the views of the task force wherever representation/participation is sought; to get a consensus where required and put forward the community's viewpoint.
• Innovate and bring forth new initiatives, continue existing ones and retire defunct ones.
• Maintain the task force infrastructure of pages.
• Community development - recruitment, motivation, empowerment.
• Join the mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia (wikimedia-in-en [at] lists [dot] wikimedia [dot] org)
• Provide reports, updates to the Community, for the newsleter and keep the community updated in general.

The Volunteer coordinator is a volunteer from the community and is answerable to the community. The volunteer enjoys the informal recognition and full support of the community. A volunteer coordinator is equal in all respects to all other editors except that he/she has the privilege to work on the WikiProject's wide range of interests. We trust him/her to take the best decisions and right actions. It is prestigious to be a volunteer coordinator as it signifies community trust reposed in an editor. However, the volunteer coordinator is open to recall by the community, should the community so decide that this is in the best interests of all concerned.

Any editor of good standing can volunteer or be chosen by the community. There is no rule which says a WikiProject can have only one volunteer coordinator but each should have at least one such person. User: Rsrikanth05 will need co-coordinators to work alongside with him, especially as the WikiProject has two daughter WikiProjects - Wikipedia:WikiProject Railways in India and Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian roads. We expect responsible editors to take up these volunteer positions as a natural progression of things. We expect them to work together in harmony, with wisdom and with consensus. If they find themselves in COI or unable to carry out their duties in good faith, we expect them to inform the community and surrender their post. In addition, a volunteer is open to recall by the community, should the community so decide. AshLin (talk) 17:14, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Commons:WikiProject India

Hello,

I started a WikiProject India on Commons.

Please come and participate! Yann (talk) 15:39, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

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