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need help
Dear T. Vishnu Vardhan,

Today, I saw that you have edited the Hindi wiki page मोहन पाण्डेय, That page written as a blog. So if you have any information about मोहन पाण्डेय then please put some references on this page. This page is not attached with any other wikipage so it is very difficult for me to increase this page. So if you can please help that page. Otherwise that page can be deleted in few days and that will not be better for Hindi wiki. Thanks &#9734;&#9733;  Sanjeev Kumar  ( talk ) 22:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks
Hello, sir. I read msgs that you thanked me for 2 of my edits on pa.wiki. Thanks for being there and you're always welcome! :-) -- itar buttar  [talk]  04:48, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Itar buttar you are doing great work on www.pa.wikipedia Keep the momentum going :)--Vishnu 07:56, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Your msg to me
Dear Sir, I happened to see your thanks msg on my profile. Could not get what it was for.... Did I do something naughty?--મહાથી (talk) 14:02, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi મહાથી, you are doing good work on Gu Wikipedia. I just thanked you for the efforts you are putting, by using the new Notifications system called Echo deployed on GU WP also. See About Echo here. You too can use congratulate others for their contribution on Wiki:) Best --Vishnu 07:34, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

NITHM
Hi Visdaviva. I notice that you've edited the (now deleted) article NITHM, which seems to be the focus of a course assignment by a number of students at that institution. I wonder if you know - and whether you'd be able to put me in touch with - the course tutor for the program. He has clearly struggled to prepare the students for editing here (several of them have already been blocked), and I'd like to encourage him to engage with the Wikipedia Education Program to help the students contribute constructively (and not coincidentally, to prevent the potential damage caused by a large group of accounts with similar editing interests and not enough understanding of how Wikipedia works!). Much obliged, Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  14:52, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello Yunshui, thanks for your message. The article was being created by enthusiastic students at NITHM, where I was invited to organize a Wikipedia Training program, and was not a course assignment. Also this was meant more to be a Telugu and Hindi Wikipedia training program than English WP. Have since then informed the students about the core principles and five pillars of WP and asked them to not rush with creating new articles. Happy to share that all the students who took part in the workshop have volunteered to be part of a WEP :) Hopefully this could be converted into a successful WEP once the institution approves it. Cheers, --Vishnu 06:51, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, good; glad to hear you're on top of it. If I can be of any help, please let me know. All the best, Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  11:00, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Visdaviva. Just a note to let you know that after a chat with Jimfbleak I've unblocked those students whose accounts were locked down; they should all now be free to edit. The usernames are a little problematic, but fall within the remit of WP:ISU and so are probably okay, although it couldn't hurt for those students with "-nithm" suffixes to request a name change at WP:CHU if they return to editing here. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  12:03, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Yunshui thanks for all your help. Have informed them about the problem with their Usernames at the beginning of the workshop. Have told them about the option of changing their name. Thanks again!--Vishnu 14:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

WikiLovesPride, India 2014
Hi User:Visdaviva, I just want to congratulate you on organizing India Access To Knowledge/Events/Wiki Loves Pride and to offer my support as one of the campaign organizers in NYC. Please let me know if you need any further support on or off Wiki. I will be on Twitter tweeting about the campaign @wikilovespride and @DorothyR_Howard and can also tweet about your events in India. Also, I'm curious, will the events be remotely organized or in-person meetups? Please feel free to contact me at any time. :) Cheers! OR drohowa (talk) 15:27, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
See you again soon....You gave me an interesting way to look at wiki..

want to keep in touch....otherwise.....

fb watsapp...would be fantabolous obtions...

Sureshkhole (talk) 19:06, 20 September 2014 (UTC) 
 * Sureshkhole thanks! Great to see you come back to Wikipedia with a new vigor. Happy to help anytime. Hope the other participants in the workshop did like it and will continue to participate in the open knowledge production on Wikipedia? Cheers!--Vishnu (talk) 07:41, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

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Talkback message from Santosh Shingare
Dear Vishnu, Thank you, for your help and support. I made that request today morning, but my meta account block,I cant make request form meta account. I made request without login. sorry for inconvenience.

Thank you Santosh Shingare 16:29, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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support it Tito ☸ Dutta 13:04, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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Please endorse this application. Very deserving. See 1096 DYKs User:Nvvchar The second highest in the entire Wikimedia project. Tito Dutta (talk) 01:00, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I won't be able to do that, as I am coordinating the event. It will be a COI. --Vishnu (talk) 07:08, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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Karnataka villages
A user was creating almost 100 articles on Karnataka villages. He was just copy pasting same content everywhere with very little change citing a Bijapur government site. Some of his long list of Karnataka villages included Ambalanur, Angadageri, Aliyabad, Gunaki, Bolawad, Basanal, Bastihal, Balabatti and many more. This was taken to ANI, where a user pinged me. Right after I joined there all these articles were deleted Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents

It is one of their sample article that I got from there and saved under my userpage User:Titodutta/villages/Bommanjogi. His all articles were like this. Most probably they are just spamming, but on other hand, it is sometimes very difficult to assess village articles. Perhaps you could give some suggestion? In Karnataka, are villages notable enough ? --Tito Dutta (talk) 17:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Not all villages of Karnataka are notable. Probably they are best fit to be in Kannada Wikipedia as within the Kannada linguistic universe it would be notable relevance. To the best of my knowledge, the villages mentioned above are not notable. Hope this helps. --Vishnu (talk) 07:39, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Telugu language query
<div style="background-color: #BBDDFF; border: #4169E1 1px solid; margin: 2em 0 1em; padding: 0.5em 1em; font-weight: bold; overflow: auto; vertical-align: middle; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left, #ED7A32, white, white, green); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(left, #ED7A32, white, white, green); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, #ED7A32, white, white, green); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, #ED7A32, white, white, green); background-image: linear-gradient(left, #ED7A32, white, white, green); border: 2px solid blue; textstyle = color: #6D7184;">'Namaste'', Visdaviva. You have got at least one new message at the Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. Please continue the discussion there!''' Message added by Tito Dutta (talk) 15:43, 21 February 2015 (UTC). You can [ remove this notice] at any time.

Your help here will be helpful. Regards. --Tito Dutta (talk) 15:43, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you Tito Dutta!--Vishnu (talk) 19:48, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Happy birthday
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 * Here there is another Wikipedian today. --Tito Dutta (talk) 06:26, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Hey again another wikipedia workshop here in pune

just recalled you....

Sureshkhole (talk) 07:19, 21 August 2015 (UTC) 
 * Seconded. --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)
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Supporting Indian Wikipedia Program resource distribution
In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:
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Project Tiger Writing Contest
In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:


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