User:Arunram/Old

About Me
I am a Netizen from Bangalore, India. Wikipedia is a great capability!



Current focus areas

 * Bangalore Wikipedia meetups
 * WIkimedia India chapter

Upcoming focus areas

 * WikiProject Karnataka
 * Portal:Karnataka

My interests

 * India
 * Indian culture
 * Indian architecture
 * Travel
 * Technology
 * Gizmos
 * PDAs
 * PalmOS
 * Biographies
 * Collecting books

What I do

 * Contribute towards key India articles that should be in Wikipedia.
 * Categorize India related content. (There's loads of work to be done)
 * Fostering collaboration efforts and activities amongst wikipedians working on India related content.
 * Garnering participation amongst new wikipedians.

Initatives started

 * Wikiportal/India
 * Indian collaboration of the week
 * Indian current events
 * Category Adoptions|Category Adoptions

Pages I created/started
Event pages
 * 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in India
 * 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Carnatic music instruments


 * Kanjira
 * Gottuvadhyam
 * Venu

Karnataka Pages


 * Basava Puraskara
 * Jakanachari Award
 * L. Basavaraju

Categories I created/started

 * Category: Carnatic music instruments
 * Category: Hindustani music
 * Category: Hindustani musical instruments

People

 * Indian wikipedians' notice board

Scouting for contribution opportunities

 * Collaboration of the week - Opportunities to edit collboratively with other wikipedians.
 * Collaboration of the week India - Need create forum and mobilize people to get started with this.

Most active Indian Wikipedians
(Disclaimer: as I view it, may not be complete and true picture)
 * User:utcursch
 * User:Improv
 * User:Sundar
 * User:Nichalp
 * User:Brhaspati
 * User:Arunram (yours truly :-) )

Wikipedians I bump into often

 * User:Mailer_diablo - the Wikipedian who first welcomed me! Thanks Mailer_Diablo
 * User:Pamri - Share edit pages with this wikipedian

Wikipedia and India

 * Wikimedia India chapter - Chapter to promote wikipedia in India and lobby for more content in Indian languages
 * Indian wikipedians' notice board
 * Wikipedians/India
 * - Use this to flag new articles.

Wikipedia editing: pages I refer often

 * Category:Wikipedia style and how-to- The mother of all pages
 * Utilities - To help one "do" things in the Wikipedia world.
 * Guide to improving articles - Useful tips for better results.
 * Guide to layout - The building blocks of any new article.
 * Boilerplate text - Learning to use the full spectrum of these placeholders.
 * Template messages - Predefined templates at Wikipedia.
 * Grouping articles with Category (list of Special:Categories), Article series, Incumbent series, and Topics

Things I am curious about

 * Mediawiki - Need to understanding the magical platform that creates Wikipedia.
 * How Wikipedia is managed - What does it take to manage wikipedia
 * Wikipedia statistics
 * Creating new templates
 * Using Bots
 * Creating Bots

Wikipedia Governance

 * Administrators, List_of_administrators, Recently_created_admins, Administrators%27_reading_list, Administrators%27_noticeboard
 * Bureaucrats, Recently_created_bureaucrats, Bureaucrat_log
 * Arbitration_committee

Wikipedia & Languages

 * [[The_provisional_portal_of_Wikipedia] ]

Awards
I present this Barnstar to Arunram for his dedicated work on India-related articles, esp. for gettting the Indian collaboration of the week and Wikiportal India started. -- utcursch 11:48, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

I endorse this barnstar. Great work on Wikiportal India. Keep it up :) --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 14:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)