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About Me
I am a Netizen from Bangalore, India. Wikipedia is a great capability!
Template:User Wikipedian For
Template:User WikiProject Karnataka
Current focus areas
Upcoming focus areas
My interests
- India
- Indian culture
- Indian architecture
- Travel
- Technology
- Gizmos
- PDAs
- PalmOS
- Biographies
- Collecting books
My contributions
What I do
- Contribute towards key India articles that should be in Wikipedia.
- Categorize India related content. (There's loads of work to be done)
- Fostering collaboration efforts and activities amongst wikipedians working on India related content.
- Garnering participation amongst new wikipedians.
Initatives started
- Wikiportal/India
- Indian collaboration of the week
- Indian current events
- Category Adoptions|Category Adoptions
Pages I created/started
Event pages
Carnatic music instruments
Karnataka Pages
Categories I created/started
- Category: Carnatic music instruments
- Category: Hindustani music
- Category: Hindustani musical instruments
My Wikipedia reference pages
People
Scouting for contribution opportunities
- Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week - Opportunities to edit collboratively with other wikipedians.
- Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week India - Need create forum and mobilize people to get started with this.
Most active Indian Wikipedians
(Disclaimer: as I view it, may not be complete and true picture)
- User:utcursch
- User:Improv
- User:Sundar
- User:Nichalp
- User:Brhaspati
- User:Arunram (yours truly :-) )
Wikipedians I bump into often
- User:Mailer_diablo - the Wikipedian who first welcomed me! Thanks Mailer_Diablo
- User:Pamri - Share edit pages with this wikipedian
Wikipedia and India
- Wikimedia India chapter - Chapter to promote wikipedia in India and lobby for more content in Indian languages
- Wikipedia:Indian wikipedians' notice board
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/India
- {{India-stub}} - Use this to flag new articles.
Wikipedia editing: pages I refer often
- Category:Wikipedia style and how-to- The mother of all pages
- Wikipedia:Utilities - To help one "do" things in the Wikipedia world.
- Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles - Useful tips for better results.
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout - The building blocks of any new article.
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text - Learning to use the full spectrum of these placeholders.
- Wikipedia:Template messages - Predefined templates at Wikipedia.
- Grouping articles with Wikipedia:Category (list of Special:Categories), Wikipedia:Article series, Wikipedia:Incumbent series, and Wikipedia:Topics
Things I am curious about
- Mediawiki - Need to understanding the magical platform that creates Wikipedia.
- How Wikipedia is managed - What does it take to manage wikipedia
- Wikipedia statistics
- Creating new templates
- Using Bots
- Creating Bots
Wikipedia Governance
- Wikipedia:Administrators, Wikipedia:List_of_administrators, Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins, Wikipedia:Administrators'_reading_list, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats, Wikipedia:Recently_created_bureaucrats, Wikipedia:Bureaucrat_log
- Wikipedia:Arbitration_committee
Wikipedia & Languages
- [[The_provisional_portal_of_Wikipedia] ]
Awards
| Barnstar |
I present this Barnstar to Arunram for his dedicated work on India-related articles, esp. for gettting the Indian collaboration of the week and Wikiportal India started. -- utcursch 11:48, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
I endorse this barnstar. Great work on Wikiportal India. Keep it up :) --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 14:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
