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What is Around the World?
It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working is currently located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 01:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you expand Pather Panchali (novel)?
Its currently a stub. Expansion might help in the FA path of the film. KnowledgeHegemony Part2 13:23, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

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List of Bengali films
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Subhash Mukhopadhyay related information
Hi Dwaipayanc,

How are you? I don't know if you are the right person to ask this question but this comes to you after long hours spent on the internet for the answer to my question. I have been searching the internet continously for information related to the members of the expert committee set up to question Dr.Subhash Mukhopadhyay. I have not been able to get any names. Would you be able to give me any info or pointers to get such info about the members of the expert committatee, set up to question Dr.Subhash Mukhopadhyay.

I would really appreciate your help.

Thankyou

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sukant.saddi (talk • contribs) 00:00, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Chatto image publication date and copyright, a bit urgent
Hello Dwaipayan, hope you are well. Any chance you could find out the publication date for Image:Chatto01.jpg from Prithwindra Mukherjee, since you uploaded it. Also, could you get him to copyleft it or PD it. I used the image in India House, which I put up for FAC earlier last week, so need that info. Cheers. rueben_lys (talk · contribs) 11:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Bikash Bhattacharya
an anon user keeps changing the location of origin of Bikash Bhattacharya, back an forth. do you know which is correct? --Soman (talk) 16:34, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * thanx, --Soman (talk) 21:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Kareena Kapoor
Hi I wondering if you could read the Kareena Kapoor article sometime and yet some ideas for how to take it to FA. It passed GA a few days ago but is being improved all the time. Peer review has started here. Thanks  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 10:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Heyy Dwai!!!
How've you been pal? I missed you.

Listen, a few days ago I had a read through Pather Panchali (film) - it's a damn good article, informative, impressive, interesting. As I didn't participate in the PR, I thought to review it for GA... Do you think it would be appropriate of me? Shahid •  Talk 2 me  13:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Congrats:) I hope to see it get featured very soon. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * My congratulations, too! Now that it's a GA, shall we deal with this issue? I don't see why not. I'm ready to do what she's asking for. --Kuaichik (talk) 00:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Hope it looks OK. Turns out it was already a dab page in Bengali! --Kuaichik (talk) 05:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, OK. I was just hoping that some explanation could be provided as to what a raga Todi IS. I mean, heck, obviously I don't know. And surely, such an article - surely a promising candidate for FA by now - should explain what it is :) --Kuaichik (talk) 00:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure! You might want to avoid the words "a raga," though - maybe. Not everybody knows what a raga is, either! :-D Oh, and you said the timing was debated, but what about the association with praise? I'm guessing that's debated, too. But again, you would know much more about that than I do, because I'm completely clueless! I've heard that the old "Ahiri raga" (not Ahir bhairav but Ahiri itself) wasn't supposed to be sung in the morning, but that's the limit of my raga-related knowledge. --Kuaichik (talk) 02:39, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, suuuure! And I suppose your computer filled in that info about the Desh Raga all on its own!!! :-D --Kuaichik (talk) 03:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Er, I mean the raga Desh! (See? I don't even know which word comes first! :-D) --Kuaichik (talk) 03:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

SOS
I know you are on a wikibreak, but just wanted to check if you can lend some helping hand here. Some point's are getting tough for me and I am feeling lonely out on the page. Any help to save the FA status will be great. -- gp pande  «talk»  20:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the good citations. Lets see how it goes now. -- gp pande  «talk»  12:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Reviewer wants to verify the source of source (book cite which you had added). This getting too much as per me as we are reviewing the article on WP and not the book published. Anyways, if you can provide him what he is asking it would get the points stroked out. -- gp pande  «talk»  15:44, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, nice. This might convince the reviewer. I am very glad that you came along. Trying to save the FA status is also big task. I added a as much more info about the city as possible like zoo. But sports section is now getting tough. Will work on it. -- gp pande  «talk»  18:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:Blasts
That sucks man! My heart goes out to those victims whom I'm seeing on TV. Mspraveen (talk) 16:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

On my user name
This user name is the short form of the name of the scientist who uses the brain washing "Jantar Mantar" equipment in Satyajit Ray's Hirok Rajar Deshe. The full name is Gobeshok Gobochondro Gyanotirtho Gyanorotno Gyanambudhi Gyanochuramoni. Pity that Wikipedia does not allow for long user names.

Best,

Gobeshock Gobochondro Gyanotirtho (talk) 04:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Do Bongs really need any more brain washing machines? I think there are already too many "Gobeshoks" (like Marx, Gurus, ... )and their "Jantar Mantars" (party cadre raj, shishya-chelas ...) in the Bengali intellectual-spiritual marketplace, whose ideas permeate most aspects of Bengali social life. Is more always the merrier ? Perhaps ...


 * But as long as Goopy and Bagha (free expression and reason) exists, there is hope yet ...


 * Keep up the good work, my friend.

Gobeshock Gobochondro Gyanotirtho (talk) 05:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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On Pather Panchali
I have edited the article. I don't think Pather Panchali was the first film to win an international award. That honour goes to the now forgotten film, Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar. However Pather Panchali was the first film to win an award after independence.

Gobeshock Gobochondro Gyanotirtho (talk) 07:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hey Dwai!!
Hello dear friend!

I must say I was immensely happy and excited to see Pather Panchali at FAC. I wish you all the very best with this article. I'll leave my comments later (well most probably an oppose LOL!! ;))

Best regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  19:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Shabash! FAC!! At last! :) --Kuaichik (talk) 03:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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Re:PINQ
Hehe, I won't give any clues about the PINQ, although it is possibly googleable by applying the right keywords. Yes, I got bored with my userpage so decided to keep it minimal. I'll think up of a new design later. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  06:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Ahmedabad FAR
Thanks for the barnstar. I would also like to thank you for coming to my rescue when I was feeling lost and lonely. Your timely and good referenced help encouraged me a lot. -- gp pande  «talk»  07:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Information Technology in India
I have just finished rewriting Information Technology in India. If/when you find time then any comments/suggestions on the article talk page would be welcome. Regards, JSR (talk) 06:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Also make sure to read Indian Media whenever you find time :-) JSR (talk) 16:40, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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