Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month

Incorrect entry
User:Kkm010 added an entry into the history log of the Wikipedia India Collaboration of the Month. The page is for recording the details of the collaborative improvements not for nominations. Accordingly, I am reverting the good faith edit. Nominations may be done here and the Collaboration article of the month is selected by the community by majority voting. AshLin (talk) 05:24, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

OK I got it.-- Kkm 010 * ۩ ۞ 09:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Gandhi
Change title before moving, the present title is pathetic. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:25, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Nominations for new volunteer co-ordinator

 *  TheSpecialUser TSU
 * 1) Support.--Dwaipayan (talk) 02:03, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) B Positive   (talk)


 * 'Krutikaa (talk)
 * 1) Supporting women's contributions on Wikipedia, Krutikaa's initiative and interest will motivate many Indian women Wikipedians. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 18:28, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) B Positive   (talk)

Update?
Please brief me about
 * Do we create separate pages for each month's nomination? If not, we can create so like Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2013 April?
 * No, we use the Nominations page. Here is a past snapshot! AshLin (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * WP:INCOTMNOM is the shortcut to the nominations page. Correct Knowledge  «৳alk»  12:08, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Do we have any template to invite/inform about INCOTM? --Tito Dutta (contact) 08:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Ask BPositive ! I dont remember :)! AshLin (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * This is the template BPositive used to inform INCOTM members. Correct Knowledge  «৳alk»  12:08, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Midway review - INCOTM Dec 14 - Languages of India
Hi,

From 01 Dec to 17 Dec we have had about 189 edits so far in Languages of India.

The following have participated so far. May we see more representation please?

May I request other editors especially those who had voted on the choice to please pitch in. There's still lots to do. AshLin (talk) 06:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Also calling up some previous contributors to the article...

INCOTM Dec 14 Stats

 * INCOTM Edits per day (incl bots & anon ip in daily totals but not for indl tally)
 * Dec 1 - 13 - Pavan santosh.s 1, AshLin 2, Rsrikanth05 4, AmritasyaPutra 6
 * Dec 2 - 10 - AshLin 7, Ugog Nizdast 2
 * Dec 3 - 51 - Ssbvxm 1, AshLin 25, AmritasyaPutra 1, Jdaloner 1, Rsrikanth05 21
 * Dec 4 - 03 - Kautilya3 1
 * Dec 5 - 00 - nil
 * Dec 6 - 02 - Strike Eagle 1
 * Dec 7 - 06 - AshLin 6
 * Total week 1 = 85
 * Dec 8 - 02 - Manul 1
 * Dec 9 - 15 - AshLin 12, OmerMarcel 1
 * Dec 10 - 11 - AshLin 8,
 * Dec 11 - 32 - AshLin 15, Pavan santosh.s 3, Satdeep gill 1, Aritasyaputra 9
 * Dec 12 - 14 - VasuVR 1, AshLin 6, Yohannvt 5
 * Dec 13 - 02 - nil
 * Dec 14 - 07 - Skr15081997 1, AshLin 6
 * Total week 2 = 83
 * Dec 15 - 12 - Skr15081997 4, AshLin 7
 * Dec 16 - 03 - VasuVR 1, Mogism 1
 * Dec 17 - 14 - AshLin 14
 * Dec 18 - 00
 * Dec 19 - 00
 * Dec 20 - 00
 * Dec 21 - 00
 * Total week 3 =
 * Dec 22 - 00
 * Dec 23 - 00
 * Dec 24 - 00
 * Dec 25 - 00
 * Dec 26 - 00
 * Dec 27 - 00
 * Dec 28 - 00
 * Total week 4 =
 * Dec 29 - 00
 * Dec 30 - 00
 * Dec 31 - 00
 * Total week 5 (part) =
 * Grand total =

I'm out of hospital but INCOTM's delayed
Hello friends, unfortunately sickness & hospitalisation kept me away during the year-end so we could not complete INCOTM choice for Jan. Since this is now redundant, I suggest we select one for Feb 2015 directly. What are your thoughts about this?

languages of India has improved greatly. What is still pending though is the addition of one paragraph worth of interesting facts about our leading languages. Please help out in this regard so that the article is materially improved since we took it up. AshLin (talk) 14:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Prizes
This INCOTM is an important project. User:AshLin and I were discussing if we should introduce small prizes here. Generally we don't give incentives for various reasons, but it might be a good option here. Of course a special barnstar may be given and what else? Ideas? Suggestions? Post-cards, WikiProject India notepad, WikiProject India pen?

Let's not plan something really big. For some reasons I "personally" would like to avoid asking grants or support for now. --Tito Dutta (talk) 04:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ Needs more users to be involved.-- Vin09 &thinsp; (talk)   07:22, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Suggestion - Recognition Board for WP India be created, highlighting major contributors in significant areas of WP, including 1 section for INCOTM. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  07:47, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am unable to think anything very big at this moment. Perhaps we should proceed slowly. In addition, over-all recognition board is a topic of WT:INB. I can tell you that "incentives" is a problematic area and must be used carefully. --Tito Dutta (talk) 10:04, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm thinking about pens or keychains, with a logo of Wikimedia Foundation in them. Simple, attractive yet not costly. Best,  Jim Car  ter  12:27, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Re-initiating the collaboration
I see that it has almost been an year, since this project active. Firstly I wish to restart this as soon as possible. First thing I've done is clean up of members page, where many of them are inactive. I am sending a mass message to all the members of WikiProject India, about this and editors interested will sign up. After this we'll wait for 7 days before we start a discussion under this thread. The discussion will include what to clean-up, a new set of guidelines for smooth and uninterrupted function of the collaboration etc. Please keep all the discussions under this thread only, so that it will easier for reference. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk &bull;&#32;mail) 23:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi guys, I see a lot many users adding their names, that is a good sign. OK, now let's get on something serious. This project has been dormant for the past one year. I would like to restart the project as this would be the best opportunity to develop India-related articles to the top notch.
 * First I would like to archive all the subpages—the nominations page, history page and reports page. I would like to set a bot for this task.
 * Apart from this we'll need to have two coordinators to organize the project.
 * we'll have two articles per month
 * And how will these articles be selected. The elected coordinators will propose some 6–8 articles for the month and voting will taken for the selection. These ten articles will be taken from the articles marked as top—importance. We'll make sure that we'll be helping the editors till the article reaches FA/FL.
 * Another important thing I would like to discuss is, regarding the awarding the contributors. I would like to discuss the idea of small grant for awarding gift vouchers to the top contributor of each article (₹ 500/- voucher each). I welcome the members to discuss this idea. And the respective contributor will have the right to the take the respective article through further reviewing processes FAC, FLC etc.
 * Please discuss, Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk &bull;&#32;mail) 14:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Electing coordinators

 * Members who wish to coordinate, please add your usernames, after a week we'll have the voting. The nominees, please mention your contributions in a short para. Please don't vote for the candidates until the voting starts. Don't for a sub-section for each candidate, that would make the contents long. Just use, ;User:ExampleName


 * User:Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
 * I've been contributing since December 2014, mostly working in the Indian military history domain, I have over 12,000 global edits. I hold the credit of 1 featured list, 5 A-class articles, 1 good topic (first good topic from Indian military history), 11 good articles and 16 DYKs. My rights include Extended confirmed, Pending changes reviewer, AutoWikiBrowser, Mass message sender, Page mover, Rollbacker, New page reviewer. I was awarded the title of Military history newcomer of the year for 2016, and was the Featured Wikimedian of the Month, Wikimedia India Chapter, for January 2017.


 * Support: I support this nomination. All the best. --Tito Dutta (talk) 23:51, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Seeking collaboration
Greetings to all,

Putting this message out here, at the suggestion of User:Titodutta, to seek collaboration and/or any assistance any of you could offer with regards to two pages: Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad and the Bengal Sultanate. Aiming to better the quality of the former to satisfy the criteria of possible future FA nomination and the latter to the quality required for a possible GA nomination. I had worked on the former and helped promote it to a GA in 2012, but given schedule with regards to school and personal life I do not see being able to work on these two alone.

Looking forward to your prompt response. Thank you! -- Tamra vidhir  (talk) 17:10, 10 August 2019 (UTC)