User talk:Mahosha

Dhamrai Upazila
About your recent changes to this page, please see the Wikipedia manual of style entry at Captions. It has been decided after a great deal of discussion by many wikipedia contributors, that credits to photographers will not be placed in photo captions. In essence, this is because the licenses that are used for the photos when they are donated do not require this, and because to include such captions would be inconsistent with WIkipedia's policy of not giving explicit credit to the authors who write the text of the articles. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Gallery in commons.wikimedia
Hi, those are lovely photos that you are adding of Dhamrai. I noticed that many of them were listed in commons.wikimedia.org as "uncategorized", which could mean that they are liable to be deleted. I've started a category there Category:Dhamrai Upazila, which is itself listed under Category:Dhaka District, so there is no need to separately list the division or the district among the categories. I've added some of your photos to the category (but have to go to work now, so can't finish the job). You can add this category as you upload the photos (or immediately afterwards if the upload wizard doesn't work properly). Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear Sminthopsis84: You know what.. I am a newbie in Wiki.. and I almost pulled my hair trying to figure out how to tag/categorize those images!! I hate to admit it that I am nothing short of being a dumb! I will try to find out how to actually do that. Wish it were like Flickr.. easy to tag, etc etc. Some steps describing the process would surely help. Wishes.. and Thanks.

PS: And I am not sure if this is the right place to communicate with you.. if you get this than my hunches worked right!!!
 * Hi again, yes, this is a good place to communicate because some of us including me have one of the user preferences set to add any page that we edit to our watch list, consequently when I edited your talk page it was added to my watch list.
 * Yes, learning to do things in wikipedia can be very frustrating, and it is a constant learning exercise to chase the information that you need (the puzzlement never stops, I think). At http://commons.wikimedia.org, if you type "Category:Dhamrai Upazila" you should see the photos that are already tagged. If you click on one of them, then click on the "edit" option, you'll see the coding associated with the photo, including at the bottom . You want to copy that to your other photos, which I think are most easily found by clicking in the top line, the "Uploads" option (assuming that you are signed in, so the system finds the uploads made by the same signon). As for the question that I expect you to ask, what categories should be added to any picture, I really don't know a general answer, there are people who specialize in adjusting categories, so I'd advise you not to worry about it too much, just make sure than at least one appropriate category has been added, and remove the coding.
 * P.S. I particularly like your photos "Boat on Bongshi.jpg" and "Drongas! Drongas!!.jpg". Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:04, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi again! I think I did it!! Now all the pictures are showing with the search string "Category:Dhamrai Upazila". Are yo someone located in our neck of the woods?! Thanks for liking couple of my images! I am so proud to be a "Dhamraian" and let the whole world know about Dhamrai, its culture, flora and fauna and so on.. Thanks for all your help and I know it will keep coming! Greetings and wishes
 * Hi again. Yes indeed, you did it! In case you didn't notice, there's also a category Dhamrai Jagannath Rath that is a subcategory of Dhamrai Upazila, so when you are looking at the latter category, the former just appears as a text link near the top of the page. The Rath's category is then also included in Category:Temples in Bangladesh, so people can also find it from there. The same approach could be used for, e.g., the Drongos, but I wasn't able to discover which species of Drongo they actually are. Banglapedia has a different list of species from what Wikipedia has, and I don't know which source is better. Perhaps someone will add a citation on the wikipedia page sometime that will help to untangle that situation, so that we can cross-link the bird photos. The work never stops.
 * No, I'm not a local, not even on the same continent now. I visited long ago and saw the old Roth make its journey (that gives you an idea of how old I am!). I'm hoping to contribute particularly to coverage of the flora of Bangladesh, but so far am spending most of my time on the geography. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:54, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Dhamrai Jagannath Rath
Seeing that you are an expert on Dhamrai, can you help expand the article on the Rath. Your photos are lovely by the way. you could consider starting articles on other important places of Dhamrai.Bangladesh needs more coverage on Wikipedia Sidsahu (talk) 13:32, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox

 * Hi Sidsahu, do you know how to set up a sandbox page for Mahosha, which might be a good place to experiment with building new pages?Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:01, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


 * @Sminthopsis request, but meant for Mahosha to read: On the top right corner of the wikipage after Username and talk the third option is Sandbox, click on that to open it, and then start typing the same way you would write a normal article. After that post it and request a more experienced editor to read it before it is posted as an article.Only Mahosha can start it as far as i know.That being said, in these 6 years i never used the sandbox [so i am a bad example , not to be followed]

Sidsahu (talk) 15:41, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Advice on creating a Userpage

 * Mahosa, a little advice learned from experience, a lesson that I'm finding that many people consider surprising: you might be tempted to set up a user page that says a lot about you, I'd advise you not to say too much about yourself because there are people in here who are not very pleasant, and will do some surprising things based on what they know or think that they know about other users. I've found from experience that editing anonymously is much better. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:01, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * As sminthopsis says, there are bigoted editors who feel they have a monopoly on wikipedia .We must not let them deter us but go on editing.Sidsahu (talk) 15:41, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, the bigots can be disheartening, but having some wikifriends can turn the experience into a rewarding one. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:11, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Welcome!
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Dec 15:

Hi Sminthopsis84: Though I am now living in Dhamrai (the home of my ancestors), I have lived almost all my life in Dhaka city proper which is about 40km away! And guess how old I am!! LOL. Probably as old (if not more) than you are! I am now semi retired having worked in National and International NGOs like Save the Children, CARITAS, Red Cross and the last 20 years or so with USAID funded programs and organizations like the Asia Foundation, John Snow Inc. (JSI). Still doing bit of consultancy work.

Another local guy from Dhamrai and I are working on this. Dhamrai Jagannath Rath and Dhamrai pages were started by him and recently put some more info into it. Will try and develop Dhamrai Rath Page further. Quite a bit of a read there and the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, as they say!! LOL. If you again make it to Dhamrai again for the Rath, will meet up over a cup of tea for a starter and then a sumptuous Bangladeshi biriyani and all that stuff!! Greetings and wishes Mahosha (talk) 06:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC) Greetings and wish
 * That's a lovely thought. I'm glad that you enjoy living in Dhamrai. When I visited so long ago, as a child, it seemed that life in Dhamrai was quite hard, noticeably more so than in Dhaka. Undoubtedly a lot has changed since then, hopefully most of it for the better. There has been such an enormous amount of work by NGOs in the meantime that we have heard about over here. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:25, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I have updated Dhamrai Jagannath Rath article. Would like your comments. I need to mention this.. phonetically it should be "Roth" instead of "Rath". The main entry shows it to be Dhamrai Jagannath Rath! Thanks Mahosha (talk) 16:23, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that using local pronunciation is very justified, and was able to move the page to the new spelling here and in the simple English wikipedia. The old spelling should redirect to this page. I'll have to work on other things for a while, but will get back to looking at your changes. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:51, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Dhamrai Jagannath Roth
Since article is expanded 5x, clean up language, try to add a few more references and post the article in DYK for a chance to feature it on the main page of wikipedia Sidsahu (talk) 04:36, 23 December 2012 (UTC)