Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW
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What is INCOTW all about?
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Every week a Indian Collaboration of the Week will be picked using this page. The candidate for weekly collaboration would be a topic which either has no article or a very basic stub page that is directly related to India or Indian interests. The aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the week, from widespread cooperative editing.
The project aims to better Wikipedia content about India, to give users a focus, an opportunity to collaboratively edit content and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered wikipedia user can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Voting also indicates interest in contributing during the weekly collaboration cycle.
Every Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.
INCOTW started with support from
INCOTW was started on 29 January 2005 with the active support of the following 17 wikipedians:
- Arunram 08:07, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Sundar 08:17, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- Soman 09:38, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- utcursch 09:58, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- Sanjeeth 12:31, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Nichalp 10:07, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- Matthewmayer 17:57, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Brhaspati 22:01, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)
- iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 01:19, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
- Amar 04:23, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
- kunjan1029 05:25, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
- Jam2k 09:19, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
- Ramashray 2:05, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
- pamri 15:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- AnjaliSinha 15:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- albertindian2001 12:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Jishacj 11:36, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The support from the above is greatly appreciated. Participation is welcome from other wikipedians interested in India topics. You can actively participate here, but please do not add to this list. You may want to add your support here
Selecting the next Collaboration of the Week
The next winner will be selected on Sunday, September 18 (UTC).
- Voting
- Users are allowed to vote only for those candidates that were nominated after they had registered. The votes of unregistered users will not be taken into consideration. Register at the Create account / log in page in order to be eligible to vote for future candidates.
- To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
- A vote will be taken to include a pledge that the voter will contribute to the article if it is selected.
- Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).
- Tie-breakers
- In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
- Nominations
- New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template at the bottom of this page.
- If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{Possible India COTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:
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This is a candidate for Indian Collaboration of the week. Please visit that page to support or comment on the nomination. |
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- Considerations for nominations
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- Please only nominate articles which don't currently exist or are stubs. (Two paragraphs or less of information or fewer than 1,000 characters)
- For non-stubs, submitting the article to Article improvement drive, pages needing attention, cleanup, peer review, or requests for expansion may be more appropriate.
- Giving reasons as to why an article should become the COTW may assist others in casting their vote.
- Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
- Pruning
- The nomination will be moved to /Removed if it has not received 5 votes after 7 days on the list, 10 votes after 14 days, 15 votes after 21 days, and so on. Essentially, an article needs to get 5 nominations a week until the Sunday on which it has the most votes.
- Selection templates
- Use {{Current India COTW}} at the top of the article selected for that week.
- Use {{subst:INCOTWvoter|pagename|pagetitle}} at voter's talk page.
Candidates for next week
Gay rights in India
--Notquiteauden 19:11, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
There is woefully little anywhere on the internet, or otherwise on homosexuality in India, attitudes towards homosexuals and their current legal position etc. It remains something that is just not discussed at all. I think there is a significant need for some amount of concrete information either way on the situation in India. I realise that most of you are heterosexual Indian males who go to colleges in India, which I know are fairly homophobic. I can understand your apprehensions towards discussing an issue like this, but I ask that you look at it from the perspective of information creation, regardless of your own personal attitude or apprehensions regarding sexuality. The LGBT community in India exists, and is extremely marginalised. I think this collaboration might serve to provide more information about it, and help gay, lesbian Indians know more about their status, as well as help foreigners interested in Indian attitudes towards homosexuality. Please vote for it.--Notquiteauden 21:51, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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Comments
- AFIK, our constitution expressly prohibits a host of sexual practices including homosex. Also, in our recent cultural history of 50 years (barring the very recent) discussing anything related to sex, let alone homosexuality, has been a taboo. All these make too little information available on this pertinent subject. Let us try our best. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 04:12, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
- A good topic, but I suggest renaming it to Homosexuality in India, so we can give a broader treatment, including its existence in literature, historical perspective to its depiction in popular culture (where, lesbian==man-hating dyke, especially in bollywood.) etc., pamri 08:20, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
Nominations on other COTWs related to India
North India: tagged for cleanup a while back, but still needs attention. Hopefully it can be as good as, or better than, South India. Tom Radulovich 23:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Sex in Indian Entertainment: an article related to sexual liberalism in Indian entertainment, such as the acceptability of pronography, sex as a follow up to love, etc, would be a nice topic. Vastu 14:40, 06 September 2005
Indian mafia: It would be nice to see an article that finally deals with the complex history of the Indian mafias from thuggee to D-Company and Chhota Rajan. Vastu 15:50, 14 September 2005
Jagjivan Ram: It currently exists as a stub. He has been a Deputy Prime Minister of India and his story has lot of facets. Also, a lot of information is available on the web. To use a cliche, "is kahani mein action hai, romance hai, tragedy hai" and also sex - see Talk:Jagjivan_Ram for details. Gurubrahma 09:33, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
SUBCONTINENTAL collaboration of the week?
Anybody interested in setting this up? In the light of earthquake we are seeing collaboration and solidarity across subcontinent. Any takers? Autumnleaf 16:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
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