Wikipedia:WikiProject India

Participation

The details of WikiProject India members can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members. Feel free to add your name and join in this initiative. The main page for discussion is Wikipedia:Noticeboard for India-related topics, consider adding it to your watchlist.

Departments

Departments are groups of members who do specific work. Tasks include authoring, maintaining the project pages, administering portals, adding articles, participating in reviews, managing the project and so on. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members may not necessarily do only departmental tasks. They can contribute content as a member of Work Groups as well.

Coverage

• Refine and maintain the List of basic India topics, a key guide on Wikipedia to India as a subject. It serves as a table of contents, summary, and topic outline of coverage on the country India and is the most useful tool on Wikipedia for exploring and understanding fundamental material about India (and how it fits together) on Wikipedia. Its purpose is an important one: it simply enables readers to see at a glance how the subject of India is broken down, what the component topics are, and how they relate to each other - that is, how information on India is organized (here, and in the world-at-large). It is a site map and outline of knowledge that demystifies the subject known as "India". Because of its central role in the presentation of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject, it is very important to develop and maintain it to the highest level of quality: to help readers improve their conceptual awareness and understanding of India as well as find their way around this subject on Wikipedia. For examples of other pages in this set, see List of basic France topics, List of basic Thailand topics, List of basic Japan topics, List of basic Taiwan topics, and List of basic Iceland topics, all of which are currently completed to a higher level of quality than this page. In other words, much work needs to be done: the List of basic India topics is incomplete, needs your editing contributions, and is especially in need of pictures!

Guide

The guide makes a list of tools, scripts and suggestions required for editing WikiProject India related articles.

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Indian articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject India}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of India-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Photography

The photography department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs and images for use in India articles.

Cartography

The cartography department aims to create a collection of high-quality maps for use in India articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

Requests

The Requested articles and Request department aims to organize, create and elevate the status of requested articles as well as properly categorize all newly created articles and remember to tag with wikiproject India.

Kitchen

The Kitchen of WikiProject India has a list of Indian cuisine related personal user awards from where you can give food barnstars to others.

Project guidelines

Manual of Style

Main page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/India-related articles

Indic scripts in lead

Per the Manual of Style page on India-related articles, avoid the use of Indic scripts in the lead sections or infoboxes. Instead, use International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation guides, which are more international. Exceptions are articles on the script itself, articles on a language that uses the script, and articles on texts originally written in a particular script. This does not apply to articles that are not predominantly within the scope of WikiProject India.

Project organisation

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Workgroups to see the Project organisation.

WikiProject Award

If you notice someone making outstanding contributions to this project or any of the descendant WikiProjects, please feel free to give them any of the following barnstars.

The India Star

Syntax: {{subst:The India Star|message ~~~~}}. It will produce:

		The India Star
		Your message here ~~~~

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

Syntax: {{subst:The Indian Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}. It will produce:

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		{{{1}}}

Other templates

Name	What it produces	Uses
{{WikiProject India}}		To be placed on article talk pages, designates that an article is within the scope of the Project, articles can also be rated to find their overall quality and importance.
{{WPIN-Member}}		Optional large banner in which users can display on their Userpage telling viewers that they are a member of the Project, can replace the Userbox or be an addition to it,
{{WikiProject India invitation}}		To be placed on User talk pages of users who you have noticed contribute regularly to India related articles, if they decide to join they will list themselves on the list of participants. You can add a custom message as well as your signature in the template by using the code, {{subst:WikiProject India invitation|sign=~~~~|message=}}
{{User WP India}}	This user participates in WikiProject India.	Designates that a User is a member of this Wikiproject. This can be used instead or as well as the above banner. Adds WikiProject India top icon to user page. Also, adds user to the category of WikiProject India members.
{{User WPIndia}}	This user is a member of WikiProject India.
{{Indian Barnstar}}	The Indian Barnstar of National Merit {{{1}}} this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~	To be awarded to users who are greatly involved in the project {{subst:Indian Barnstar|1=Put your message here.}}
{{WikiProject India talkback}}	link={{{1}}} Namaste, WikiProject India. You have received at least one new message at the [[{{{1}}}|Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics]]. Please continue the discussion there! You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Talkback}} template.	Talkback notification for WT:INB {{subst:WikiProject India talkback|Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics|question title goes here|ts=~~~~}}

• {{IndicL}} to add one of the multiple scripts to an article lacking it
• {{India Links}}: Welcome template/useful links
• {{India quick links}}: Welcome template/useful links (shorter version)

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on India-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Stub templates.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article alerts are available, updated by AAlertBot. More information...

Other templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Templates for noticeboard, WikiProject, portal, and userbox templates.

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Resources

Tools

Main page: Wikipedia:Tools