User talk:Maquahuitl

Hello!!!
Hi, this is Jobin, a new wikipedia user. I came to understand that you have an interest in Computer and related topics. I am working on a few articles related to Programming in C. Therefore, I kindly request you to help me on these topics
 * inttypes.h
 * tgmath.h

You may also drop your valuable suggestions on other related articles on my talk page. Jobin RV (talk • contribs) 11:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)Jobin RV 13:44, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Anwar's death
How do we know Anwar Sheikh died? --Matt57 01:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

There is a reference which claims that he died on 25 November 2006 in Wales, GB:

http://www.haindavakeralam.org/PageModule.aspx?PageID=2426&SKIN=W

Though it is a Hindu website it is unlikely that such a trivial thing will actually be a propaganda, as they only claim his death not murder by Islamofascists or any such thing.

Since the person in question is socially of a low profile, it is unlikely that secular reports of his death will be available in just two days.
 * Thanks, I've put in the link on his death now: Anwar Shaikh. --Matt57 17:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Regions of India
Well, if your ideas are wholly your own creation, you don't want to publish them here – that would be original research. But if, as is more likely, you are schematizing more widespread conceptions (and better yet, if you can cite precedents for your schema), then I can help you work your ideas into a framework suitable for Wikipedia. What's your suggestion? Q·L·1968 ☿ 18:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

India Demographics
Because of India's rich diversity, no one image can represent all of India's one billion people. That is why I propose selecting a new demographics image every three months. This would allow for a regional balance and would show India as a whole. Many people have agreed that this is the only way to represent India's rich and varied diversity. Since you have voted for a change in the demographics section, I wanted to update you on this proposal. I would love to hear your comments on talk:India. Thanks so much. Have a great day!

-Coollemonade 23:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Belated welcome to WP:India
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RE:Hindi
I would like to run the Ganeshbot on the Hindi wikipedia. I am ready to type in the template for Indian cities and towns so that they can be expanded. Please reply. Maquahuitl 07:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * User:Deeptrivia was looking to do the same some time back. I had sent him a csv file for translation. I can send you the same. Please send me a e-mail so that I have your address to send the file to. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 06:18, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Disappointed
I'm deeply disappointed by your comments on the main page talk page, in reference to Pakistan and Pakistani editors. As I mentioned before your comments, there was absolutely no reason to bring up Pakistan. Yousaf never brought up Pakistan and he repeatedly denied this had anything to do with India-Pakistan. You should remember to Assume good faith and No personal attacks. Other editors, including me, pointed out why the claim of India bias had no merit without having to retort to attack Pakistan or Pakistani editors. Nil Einne 11:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Indian demographics pic
Hi, I believe you had once expressed a view about this pic that appears in the India article, demographics section. I do not know what your exact comment was. But you had been counted among those who had expressed a view to "keep" the pic in the article. Since some of us now feel that this pic is a better replacement, in that it is more relevant to the said section, I request you to please leave a comment here. Thanks. Sarvagnya 09:12, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Reformatting thye display of userboxes on your user page
I have reformatted the display of the userboxes in your user page as the display was mixing up different items of your content when I looked at it. Please take a look at the current version and see if you wish to keep the modification or revert as per your choice. Do let me know if you would like any feedback/other help. -Deepraj | Talk 15:16, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Template
Salaam Maquahuitl. I appreciate your interest in Hindustani related articles. Your template regarding this topic seems to be helpful. Would you mind finalizing it and placing it in the appropriate articles. I think this would be a good idea. Thanks. Khuda hafiz, AnupamTalk 05:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding Portal: Uttar Pradesh
Hi! Maquahuitl, I read your wish of starting Portal: Uttar Pradesh today while visiting your userpage, I have already started same on 14, Nov 2007, you are welcome to contribute and update the sections. - Sayed Mohd Faiz Hiader Rizvi (talk) 06:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

" Once they are classified under the GA category I shall try to start the Uttar Pradesh portal." So I messaged you. Sayed Mohd Faiz Hiader Rizvi (talk) 11:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry! about any offence but it seems your User page says,

=Hi Maquahuiti= Happy New year Pls help me to circulate this appeal- if any body/ or few of You brilliants who reside in North India can tell me about newspapers in India like Punjab Kesari, Dainik Bhaskar, Rajasthan Patrika , Navjyoti ? or few famous news papers of Jaipur, Rajasthan , Punjab Their circulation or popularity. & if any body of you know Hindi. or interested to explore different/ all or specific religion, philosophy , poetry etc. I want your help to translate some few 50 line of Hindi news to English. Pls. Gift your name to me on my talk page please  Regards - --Dralansun (talk) 16:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

=Thankyou Maquahuiti= to care me with your generous reply. very soon I will give you a url link. this will carry few news of Hindi News Papers. As you are brillaint in Hindi I would like you to translate them in English & post them on my discussion page. If you feel you can also email me the same or save with you where you can post the translation if they get deleted in process of editing /improving / cleanup.I need you to stand up beside me and help me as a wiki friend who help and share knowledge growth True & Sincere regards once again to U. Naaamaste --Dralansun (talk) 19:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

=No i am not an Indian= =I am an Irish-English=. But love India & Hindi language ‘tum kha ja rahe ho, tum khan se ho ? kahan javoge? tum musalman ho? Yaan Hindu ho ? …vagira vagira’. I frequently visit India. From last 12 months I am in India. I went to my native only for formality to extending visa. I love to learn meditation and track Himachal. I read Buddha, went Matlodgunj. Manali,Kashmir. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dralansun (talk • contribs) 19:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

But I live and brought up among Indian-South Hall,close by is Hounslow, in London near Heathrow aiport. But I love the multiculture of India. Their sense of wisdom, love, feeling emotions are different from us. They are helpful, they empathy other's culture, country equally. I saw Gadar. starring Actor 'Sunny Dwel'. I am found of Hindi movies, they dance around well & tree. I understnad Hindi. but i can't talk or write equally well. Shah rukhkhan & many are famous in UK. But I feel today they are going different way, young are imitating bad things about us. It's irony we love your culture & you love our's. what a funny world.....see i have posted a view - pls help me to circulate among your indian editors freinds in wikiprojects. I need you & good people like you--- I have read one author's work - I was highly impressed & still carried away with his novel thoughts. One journalist friend gave this book on my birthday. It was difficult so he read for me.I have so many Indian friends here but they are not good at translating or undestanding this critical subject.You see it's matter of interest. This book made my life more mad. There are many 'Bhhava Aartha'-meaning to be explored in this book as one say or see in 'Scriputre of Gita Saar'-Hare Krishna', Many authors have explored Sacred Gita with vivid visions, so I need brillaint persons like you... One Faizhaider is also teaming up with us. I expect more with your help.
 * read here what I wrote him

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=Dear Faizhaider,= Yes I want efficient editors friendly -generous like you who guide nut like me permanently just to improve. clean up enhance, guard my raised pages. The subject & research will surely interest and amuse you & change your life of thinking on humanism. Reg: Translation of Hindi, soon I will post a url link here & also on my talk page. You click on it & translate few news photo scanned /kept there. & thereafter if you don’t get bore we will journey on a small 31 pages book together on Hindi. The book is in capsulated size & the name of the book is 'Brhmaand Pujan'. Only few newspapers/ media journalists of India & wise religious people are fortunate to read this forbidden book- You will be among those few.( Book is non mythological, non superstitious & is absolutely non-religion). I believe it will change your perception for ever. Must your vision grow more in Allah's wisdom than his materialistic wealth. Thank you to join me as my pillar of strength. I love good people as I love my God & Guru. & the real God or Guru stay invisible. Their preaching & performance to beautify human kind is important not their idols or pix –either to fame/advt them to promote religion. The world should not come with one more professionalize religion - This is  my  Guru's says-.
 * Khuda Haafis .''

--Dralansun (talk) 15:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)--Dralansun (talk) 15:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Taskforce
I would suggest the idea of a taskforce at the talk page of WP:India. By the way, almost all of the links to your template are functional. It seems like you could start applying the template. With regards, AnupamTalk 07:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to hear that people are not replying. You might want to consider just creating the workgroup yourself and let people join when they see the workgroup has been created. All you need to do is create this page: WikiProject Uttar Pradesh. You can look at several of the other states' workgroups to see what content they have for examples here. Also, I thought you might find it interesting that User:Faizhaider has created Portal:Uttar Pradesh which is formatted very nicely, including several nice topics. I hope this helps. Khuda hafiz, AnupamTalk 17:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Maquahuitl. It is my hope that you will not get discouraged as you have plenty of good ideas and knowledge to share on Wikipedia. By the way, User:Tuncrypt is not a administrator but a regular such as you or I. Encyclopædia Britannica has an article on the Hindustani language as given here. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica article for Urdu, "Urdu originally derived from Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India before the partition." The Hindi article on Encyclopædia Britannica makes a similar statement. In addition, the dictionary definition of Urdu (two of four) states the fact that Urdu is "a language derived from Hindustani" or that is is "official language of Pakistan, 1796, from Hindustani". The dictionary definition of Hindi also states that Hindi is "a literary language derived from Hindustani". Wikipedia works by a Verifiability policy which means that content is approved for articles if it can be buttressed by reliable sources. Encyclopædia Britannica, among various dictionaries linked above are accurate. From my understanding and research, your claims are correct: both Hindi and Urdu are standard registers of Hindustani, the common language of the Indian subcontinent before the partition. After the partition, these registers were standardized by the governments of India and Pakistan. I am of the same opinion of you on this issue. The template was accurate and I do not understand why it was deleted as well. It provided a great way to link the language articles together. Before the partition of India, Hindustani traces itself back to Hindavi. I personally wrote that article and I believe it explains the history of the pre-partition lingua franca quite well. Another reputable source from North Carolina State University, "Because day to day Hindustani was essentially a widespread Indian lingua franca not associated with any particular region or class, it was chosen as the basis for modern Hindi, the national language of India. Modern Hindi is essentially Hindustani with a lexicon of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary in preference to the Persian borrowings of literary Urdu. Likewise, Hindustani in its Urdu form was adopted by Pakistan as a national language because Urdu is not tied to any of the regions comprising modern Pakistan. Thus a language which is really nobody's mother tongue is today the second most spoken language in the world, understood throughout most of the populous Indian subcontinent and in many unexpected corners of the globe." I hope this information helps. With regards, AnupamTalk 21:34, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that another user, User:Kwamikagami supported the template and found it to be useful too. With regards, AnupamTalk 00:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If you check my recent post, you'll see that I've already pointed out the definitional problems related to the term Hindustani, and it looks like that here that Britannica is using the first listed definition, that of Hindustani = Khari Boli. Furthermore I go on to state the unavoidable definitional problems related to the term Hindi. For example, it seems that Britannica and the dictionary don't distinguish between Hindi as a composite of dialects and Modern Standard Hindi, as standardized register of one dialect, Khari Boli. In terms of separate pages, Wikipedia doesn't either, describing both in a single Hindi page.
 * You are working on a flawed principle. The fact that Urdu and (Modern Standard) Hindi are registers of "Hindustani" (when defined as =Khari Boli) doesn't support a "Topic related to Hindustani language" template. Just because thing B derives from thing A doesn't mean that it remains wholly subsumed under thing A. This along with all the other stuff I've said.
 * It's funny that you should speak so innocently about verifiability, as if I'm someone lacking such an understanding. If anything, it's you who should be reminded that encyclopedias and dictionaries are secondary sources, based on more primary sources, and that they can lack nuance, even accuracy. The primary reviews which I possess and base my linguistic opinions and contributions on are these three: Cardona, George & Dhanesh Jain (2003), The Indo-Aryan Languages; Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages; Garry, Jane & Carl Rubino (2001), An encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present.
 * Either way, when all's said and done, there is no reason to fret. It's only a Hindustani-named template that I oppose, not templates for this topic in general. User:Kwamikagami's support was along these lines, supporting the usefulness of a template, whatever it may be called, as I do. Hopefully that's basically what you want, and in that case my proposal is of two templates of Hindi and Urdu each, for all the reasons outlined in my recent post. They'd converge on a small number of things, but rightly and characteristically diverge on a larger number of other things. Tuncrypt (talk) 19:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Ref:Taskforce for Hindustani
Hi !, I saw your Taskforce for Hindustani talk on User Anupam's Talk page. I'll also like to help in this task. Bye !

Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 13:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Hindustani language template
Hi. I see that you have created a navigation box for "Topics related to Hindustani language". Now personally, or rather, factually, I think that such a template is not warranted. Here's why. 1) The name "Hindustani" lacks popular currency and is defunct in this regard. 2) The name lacks linguistic/academic currency on a scale the existence of such a template would purport. "Hindi", "Urdu", and "Hindi-Urdu" are what linguist use as descriptive names. 3) Furthermore, with regards to the definition of "Hindustani", discussion on it takes the form of an aside, with that of it as a facet of, a shared colloquial basis in between, the Hindi and Urdu that are being described, and not the other way around. Hindi and Urdu are not subsumed under the rubric of Hindustani. 4) Such a practice becomes only so much more inaccurate considering the extreme breadth accorded now to the term "Hindi", subsuming vast tracts of non-Khari Boli dialects and literary languages under it. 5) Finally, having already made my point either way, it still remains pertinent to point out the ridiculousness of categorizing Hindi and Urdu literature together, which is what the template does. The things that are "Hindi" and "Urdu" have equivalent grammars, similar histories, and similar phonologies. These are all things known and noted, whenever and wherever necessary. However positing a unity of literatures shows an utter lack of understanding of the fundamentals concerning that which Hindi and Urdu are and are not.

In summary, "Hindustani" is not a language but a term sometimes used in discussions of Hindi and Urdu– two things that, whatever their complexities and complications, are above all real, are accorded primacy in both popular and academic usage, and thereby are to be accorded primacy as such on Wikipedia. Your self-definition as an "enthusiastic novice" quite clearly shows, but luckily someone noticed. Your template should be deleted, and I am to be going about reverting all your additions of it. Tuncrypt (talk) 02:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

New templates
Check my new posts here. I've made new templates. There are substantial differences, and the issue looks to be resolved. Tuncrypt (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Thanks
Hello Maquahuitl! You are very welcome. I apologize for the delayed reply. Yes, your points are indeed valid. What I meant by my sentence was that Hindavi was an earlier name for Hindustani. As for Urdu, keep in mind that the Urdu spoken in Pakistan today, is being standardized by their government, which is resulting in its absorption of more Arabic and Persian words (source). This distinguishes it slightly from the Urdu spoken before the partition of India. Thanks again for your link as well. I found it to be useful. With regards, AnupamTalk 06:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, the project can still be fruitful, given the large amount of people interested in the subject. With regards, AnupamTalk 01:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

=I invite & seek Translation of News-Reviews from the below site= Brhmaand Pujan
 * http://brhmaandpujan-news-reviews.tripod.com/

Which can be used only for 'Fair Purpose' Translation- Hindi to English & other languages too. This site would be updated time to time, Meanwhile, I  invite the research editors team, seeking & extending  your ‘Individual Translations’ help-support  –‘all or any’ one after another, If  some  pictures or words are not visible or too small to read, In such condition, you may temporary save them in your computer’s folder/files and then  magnify & view them on your monitor screen. After translating them, your good self  can  post them  on my talk page  with exact & accurate details.

However, the name of the News Papers, Date of publications, Title of News / Reviews , along with the matter is important. Thank you heartily, in anticipation. --Dralansun (talk) 16:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

=Maquahuiti could your goodself pls spare time= I request to find time & help this stub, orphaned article grow with link-ups Brhmand Pujan & See what ever you can translate & add from below site which display news and reviews in Hindi from some of the leading Hindi News Papers of India
 * http://brhmaandpujan-news-reviews.tripod.com/ (For Fair Use Only)

--Dralansun (talk) 10:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Category- dialects of Hindi and Hindustani
I searched for deletion log to find reason for deletion of these category pages but was unable to trace any.

I am now also wondering why these categories were deleted. Is there any issue? As per my knowledge Hindi/Hindustani is categorised into different dialects as other languages we have local words also for them i.e. boli(बोली) and this categorization is official.

Can I know what were the previous issues due to which these categories were deleted?

--Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 04:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

As per my knowledge and studies(I myself belong to Hindi belt and have had Hindi as my Subject for 15 years including Prose, Poetry & Language) Hindi academicians use word boli(बोली) i.e. dialect and not bhasha (भाषा) i.e. language for different local variant of Hindi.

--Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 07:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

As per Institute of Linguists there is nothing like dialect and every variant is a different language, then all the variations in any language whether it is Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, German, English, etc can be splitted up into n languages.

Regarding khariboli and brajbhasha I will say that they are names and we can't conclude qualities on basis of meaning of name.

Regarding Hindi and Hindustani I will say that Hindi is more formalised language guarded by formal rules of grammar, script, etc while Hindustani is spontenous language of masses across Doab region from last 200 years initially it was blend of Urdu, Persian, Hindi and later English also mixed into it. Hindustani is the actual language used in Bollywood and for communication between people of different regions.

--Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 13:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Hindustani has been lingua franca of Northern India right from later Mughal period thru British period to modern days, the picture became little bit distorted due to event of split of Hindustan into India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh with each country taking Hindi, Urdu & Bangla respectively to their helm replacing Hindustani as medium of comunique. During British time Hindustani was standard instrument of communication in Northern India for Bengal Presidency, NWFP, Sindh, Rajputana etc. i.e. whole of todays Pakistan, Northern India, Western India and Central India at that time more than 75% of British Indian Empire, initially script was Nastaliq later Devnagiri also got place but this was only difference in script and not in words (british documents, stamps and coins are good example of this). So Hindustani is not khariboli but is much broader then that.

Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 12:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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Whats up with UP WP?
I want to help out. KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 13:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

UP WP= WikiProject Uttar Pradesh. --KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 07:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Hindi Template
I found inconsistency at two locations - Varieties and registers of Hindi and Hindi topics. I agree with what you are saying. If Bihari languages are not Hindi then it should be updated in all the articles. Manoj nav (talk) 05:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Actually it's neither agreed socially nor linguistically. It's just that these languages have not been given official status and the education system (run by the government) teaches that these languages are dialects of Hindi. So even many educated people are unaware of the fact that Bihari languages are not Hindi. This has been politically motivated to unite India with a common language - Hindi, at the cost of regional languages. There are many references. I think this should be included in the article here. Manoj nav (talk) 06:49, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Awadhi is also influenced by Magahi, its language to the east
I read this sentence - "Awadhi is also influenced by Magahi, its language to the east.", in the article - Awadhi. Are you aware of it and if so, do you have more information about it? Manoj nav (talk) 06:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information and the advice. We are trying to write articles related to Bihar. I have already started contributing for some of the articles - Bihar, Patna, Bihari Lamguages and more .. Apart from these we also plan to write new articles on Bihar covering specific topics like flood, famine, agriculture, economy, rivers, transportation systems, languages, naxalism, politics etc. Manoj nav (talk) 08:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposal
I have following proposals for Northern, Eastern and Central India's map. There are many references which say that Bihar is in eastern India. References-


 * Eastern India
 * Central India

Manoj nav (talk) 16:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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Uttar Pradesh Map
Thanks for the prompt, I have corrected the map; you may have a look onto it. Thanx again. -Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 06:19, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Have you posted the language map anywhere? So that we can have review & discusion over it; its better if its done at workgroup level. I'll be waiting to see the map. --Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 06:22, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Map looks good, altough I think we would need some sources to proof authenticity of language distribution depicted in this map(to some extent). It has watermark of Maps of India that makes it probable candidate for deletion. You can use blank version of map used by me for regions of Uttar Pradesh i.e Image:UP region map.gif(I can send it to you thru mail but not before monday), or I can do the map myself & upload newer version in place of current one; as you wish.-Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 07:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have uploaded new version of the language map, plz have a look.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 19:42, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You are absolutely right about the small regional inaccuracies especially in case of Allahabad, but to depict these small variations we'll need very detailed map and sources strong enough to make such map. So far I'm unable to get hold of good sources.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 06:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 08:07, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Kanpur
Thanks for pointing that out --Maurice45 (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:References for wikipedia articles
Namaste Maquahuitl. I sincerely apologize for the delayed reply. For some reason, I neglected to see your first message to me. From my understanding, English sources are preferred on English Wikipedia. If no English sources are available, I think it would be okay to use Hindi sources for now. However, you can read the official policy here. Best of luck in writing the article bhai. With regards, AnupamTalk 19:08, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand. User:Enric Naval left a comment on my talk page here that might be helpful to you. With regards, AnupamTalk 23:58, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Recent edits on Uttar Pradesh
Recently few Users have massively revamped Uttar Pradesh article. Although any positive edits are welcomed but large scale revisions and revamps are advised to be done after discussion and consensus especially on articles of priority. As you have are member of WikiProject Uttar Pradesh you are invited to participate in discussions on talk:Uttar Pradesh

--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 10:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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As a token of appreciation for your great help in Uttar Pradesh topics

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:21, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!