User:Arunram/Old

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About Me

I am a Netizen from Bangalore, India. Wikipedia is a great capability!

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 4 months and 7 days.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Karnataka.

Current focus areas

• Bangalore Wikipedia meetups
• WIkimedia India chapter

Upcoming focus areas

• WikiProject Karnataka
• Portal:Karnataka

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

• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in India
• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Carnatic music instruments

• Kanjira
• Gottuvadhyam
• Venu

Karnataka Pages

• Basava Puraskara
• Jakanachari Award
• L. Basavaraju

Categories I created/started

• Category: Carnatic music instruments
• Category: Hindustani music
• Category: Hindustani musical instruments

My Wikipedia reference pages

People

• Wikipedia:Indian wikipedians' notice board

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

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)

I award you this barnstar for your untiring efforts in setting up a collaboration of Indian editors and Indian themed portals. Nichalp 19:48, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC).