User talk:Prashanthns/Archive 9

Valparai WP10 meetup
Thanks a lot for doing the wiki session in Valparai and getting 10 new users to wiki. God bless Kalyan Varma (talk) 07:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * : ) prashanthns (talk) 07:53, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Attendance
Valparai attendance beats Bangalore bird session by factor of 3 perhaps (ambience beaten by factor of ∞) !! Saw a pair of Black-naped Orioles at NIAS campus ! Shyamal (talk) 12:52, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Presentation of yours up anywhere? prashanthns (talk) 13:12, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope, too many copyrighted cartoons (siesta antidote) in it. Shyamal (talk) 13:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive news
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User:Prashanthns/Invitation
I deleted the subpage per your request, but you did transclude the invite on several editor's talk pages, so now they have a broken invite. It is probably no big deal since the event has long past so the invite is not really relevant anymore, but just wanted to leave you a note about it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yea, well, a long-past event. I dont think it will matter as they will contact me anyways as it was a sub-page. Thanks anyways. prashanthns (talk) 08:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion
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Tiger
I thought there was a reliable sighting of tiger in DDSF by Ameen et al. There are mentions of tiger from Ramnagaram from the 1900s. Where are you these days ? Shyamal (talk) 05:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This blog post perhaps is all of the evidence. Sajay has categorically stated it as unlikely. Given DDSF environs, I also wonder if there is enough prey to sustain a tiger. In the lack of wild prey, much more than a very rare cattle kill must be happening. Not sure though. Am in Bangalore/Tumkur these days. Busy with work. prashanthns (talk) 11:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Oops! Spoke too soon, I wonder. This post seems positive about it. Hmm.... prashanthns (talk) 11:56, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Forpavithra, 27 February 2011
Please capitalise the word English in your profile!

Forpavithra (talk) 14:43, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip User:Forpavithra. Will pass this one. prashanthns (talk) 14:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Alpha Quadrant   talk    22:04, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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maps note
Congratulations and thumbs up for starting and leading: Wikipedia:School and university projects/Nature Conservation Foundation - Improvement drive on articles on Indian wildlife/forests. I presume this a followup on the Valparai Wikimeet.

By the way I found a great Western Ghats map licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. http://keystone-foundation.org/downloads (clik Save Western Ghats/ Western Ghats Parks And Forest Map (2.8 MiB))

This a great source to get good maps of smaller areas by cropping and then modifying or not as needed for illustrating Wikipedia articles about any place in the Western Ghats.

I have already cropped out Nilgiri Hills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nilgiris_Biosphere_Reserve.jpg and used it in a dozen articles. I had a spoonful of my Solinga honey this morning. Delicious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus334 (talk • contribs)
 * Thanks Marcus. Yes, it is a sorta follow up of that event. At least 2 editors are still continuing after the event. Lets see how it goes. Will pass on your comments on the honey. I saw the maps of keystone that you have put in the Satyamangalam and BR Hills article. Great resource. Wish all organisations would do this with their maps. prashanthns (talk) 04:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

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GOCE elections
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GOCE drive invitation
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Wikimedia Stories Project
Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

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Bentinckia
Hi Prashanth,

I have expanded few articles on Bentinckia, Bentinckia condapanna and Bentinckia nicobarica. Please have a look and these pages surely need some cleanups/formatting/editing. Would be great if you could do this. Thanks PJeganathan (talk) 18:12, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow! Nice photo of Bentinckia condapanna. From Valparai? I have done some minimal copy-editing. Great stuff. Keep adding! :) So much work to be done on western ghats species. prashanthns (talk) 07:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Chaulmoogra oil
Hi there. I noticed your notes in your to-do list about adding some refs to List of vegetable oils regarding chaulmoogra oil. Are you still considering doing that? It does already have three references, but perhaps you could strengthen the entry a bit? Waitak (talk) 21:17, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for rejeuvanating an old "to-do". Had sorta parked this oil for a while but somehow today seems like a good day to take this up. Let me have another go. prashanthns (talk) 10:26, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is I do not know much about the organisation of the article. If I put in sentences with citations, do you think you can organise the article into sections a bit?prashanthns (talk) 10:28, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Had another go at it updating mostly its medical history and use in early 20th century in leprosy and TB. Not sure if the section headings of the vegetable oils need to follow any struture. If you put in such a skeletal structure, I will have another go at it next weekend! CHeers. prashanthns (talk) 12:29, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, took me a bit to check back. (I've put your talk page on my watch list for now to make sure I'm quicker next time.) I'd be happy to look over your work. Were you planning on putting something into List of vegetable oils or were you just planning on working on Hydnocarpus wightiana (which I'll look at for you)? Waitak (talk) 18:25, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

(unent) No. Just H. wightiana for now. My knowledgebase is limited to medicine and biology for now. :) prashanthns (talk) 06:32, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report
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South Tibet/ Arunachal Pradesh / Arunachal Pradesh dispute / South Tibet dispute
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Time to vote again!

 * Just reminding you to vote for WP:INCOTM project for the month of March 2012. Please vote on the India notice board talk page. Thanks, --B Positive (talk)   15:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Invitation!
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Nomination of Nobel laureates of India for deletion
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