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I have gone ahead and simplified the rules for selecting the INCOTW. Basically, the nomination with more votes wins, irrespective of the nominated date. It is basically what I was doing when updating the INCOTW every Friday. --Pamri • Talk 12:16, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
This article needs massive copyediting. Please have a look and improve it in any way you can. deeptrivia (talk) 05:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Can we not leave the candidate notice on the discussion page of an article instead of removing it? It could say, "This article was a India Coloboration of the Week in December 2005". It could link to a page containing all previous candidates. Your thoughts? - Ganeshk 22:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I have done a large update and created a table of past COTW. Please check and review. The previous history page has been archived here. - Ganeshk 22:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
What is the criteria to see if the article has been improved? Just Number of words may not be sufficient. e.g. Hyderabad, India page was full of words See the older edit of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyderabad%2C_India&oldid=31632289 Chirags 16:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Please help out on List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha, filling out red links. electoral results are availible on www.eci.gov.in. I'm putting the results in templates, so that in the end it will be able to add several results on the same page. See User:Soman/temp4. --Soman 15:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Isn't 2 weeks timeline for removing failed nominations on the shorter side? May be we should fix it at 2 months, --Gurubrahma 17:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I made it a month for now. - Ganeshk (talk) 18:05, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
To make the choices simpler, I have modified the rule to reflect the consideration of the 6 most recent candidates. Older noms not gathering enough momentum, vote wise, will be removed on through a FIFO methodology. See here for the relevent discussion. AreJay 16:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if it was correct to place the INCOTW template on the main page of the article itself.. Shouldn't it be placed on the talk page instead? thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK
I see too many nominations on cities and states from where we hail. May be we should have more diversity in the nominations - people, places, events etc. but I am loathe to add any more rules than what are currently available. However, I leave it to the better judgement of wikipedians in choosing nominations. --Gurubrahma 08:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
This week's INCOTW is heading for a close fight with Delhi, Culture of India & Sholay each having 7 votes. BTW I'm curious what do we do in the event of a tie? Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 04:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Sholay should be INCOTW by the vote count. My apologies. I will make sure this does not happen again. - Ganeshk (talk) 15:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Oleg Alexandrov has raised the issue on Wikipedia talk:Collaborations of whether the template for the current winner of a collaboration should go on the article or the talk page. You might be interested in taking part. Pruneau 00:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if editors would be willing to collaborate for something different that the usual. What I am talking about is the articles NOT created by User:Ganeshbot, whose listing is present in User:Ganeshbot/Not created. There is a need to update/merge the data got from these pages with the original ones. I feel that in order to make this work actually happen, it will need a collaboration, and if left by itself, the backlog will take ages to clear. This will mean days full of work on full throttle. Since this wouldn't require much thinking, work can go pretty fast. Opinions/suggestion? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the improvement to the page should be counted from the date of nomination and not from the day of selection, as some of us do not wait for an article to get nominated to improve on it. Chirag 13:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Economy of India is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 03:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I made a policy change so that only stubs get nominated here. I watched Diwali go through multiple COTWs with no major changes. For full length articles, the Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review department would help. IMO, Ahmedabad and Nagpur should go there. The peer review department people can suggest comments, make copy edits as required. Please comment. - Ganeshk (talk) 19:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
While I am away, Can someone please volunteer to manage the INCOTW? - Ganeshk (talk) 15:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I am changing the day of selection of articles on INCOTW to Sunday. I don't know why it says Friday. Looking at the dates of selection of the past 2 moths, I observed that they have never been selected on Fridays. So I am changing it to Sunday for uniformity. I shall be selecting it on Sundays from now onwards till Ganesh returns. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 12:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Let us know if you happen to pick an article on a person and we'll alert our members! plange 05:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't think many are aware about the policy change made by Ganesh regarding the eligibility of articles. Only stubs (up to 2 paragraphs) can now be nominated - the rest go to PR. If I apply this new rule then there won't be any candidates for INCOTW, which is really a shame. So should I let this particular nomination (AB) remain or reject the nom? - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 14:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I think we should revert back to the old INCOTW policy. Peer review is very different from a collaboration. During a peer review, people will comment on the article, and one or two people get the things done. Whereas in a collaboration everybody works together. The person nominating it needn't have any particular dedication towards the article. Hence, what I suggest is that we include non-stubs as well in INCOTW. Long articles, however, can go to peer review.-- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK 04:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Moved here Sarvagnya 17:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi - a few issues and suggestions:
(1) I think the problems with INCOTW are pretty clear - a lot of the regular school of Indian Wikipedians are busy and editing less in volume, if not frequency. This problem also applies to many India-related Wikiprojects. While the "old school" of Indian Wikipedians has done valuable work, the projects need to rope in the large numbers of Indian registered users who don't frequent these noticeboards and Wikiprojects. Don't rely on INWNB posts and messages - folks really need to get messages out to individual usertalk pages. For this purpose, it would be a good, achievable project to start an INWNB/INCOTW weekly newsletter or alert.
(2) A smaller INCOTW issue may be that when 1-2 editors are interested in working on a particular article, it may be overruled by a larger number for another topic. In this process INCOTW will lose many willing editors who don't like the particular topic selected for INCOTW. Perhaps INCOTW can deal with 2-3 articles at the same time, while extending its collaboration period from 1 week to 2 weeks or so to make the deadline realistic. Adding loads of data is easy - formatting, citing and copyediting are not. You lose the momentum in the latter stages.
(3) An interesting point comes to mind. I'm guilty of never having worked on INCOTW. Its unusual because I love working in collaboration - I absolutely love assisting comrades on FA drives, doing the tedious copyediting chores, etc. I can name several articles where I've greatly enjoyed helping out. Many of the recent FAs are excellent examples where 2-3 editors have aided the principal author in achieving success. This is collaboration that works. Perhaps INCOTW could emulate this model?
(4) Don't restrict the net to Indian Wikipedians. We must work with equal enthusiasm and care with non-Indians. There is a natural sense of respect for each other at INWNB, but it should extend to all. The family, team atmosphere at INWNB is pretty cool, but it needs to be open to all. This India cartel should be transformed into an energetic group of editors interested in India-related content.
(5) Sister projects INWNB, INCOTW and India wikiprojects have many accomplishments. Although the principle of working on India-related content is clear, I think its a good idea to collaborate with the efforts of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Sri Lankan editors. We have a lot of shared content, so its not like we're deviating. This way we can widen the team effort and attract the participation of these communities in our own efforts. I suggest we officially hook up with WikiProject Bangladesh, PNWNB. Rama's arrow 15:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
(deindent) Good points.
(1) - The fact about old-timers getting busy is true. I recognise only 3 people from this list of original supporters. Your idea about a newsletter is good. We could create a newsletter for India related topics - summarising all events in the week (most of them are covered by the Noticeboard though). As for INCOTW I have an idea - Currently only the people who voted for the article are informed when the article gets selected at the end of the week. Maybe we could create a spamlist of people who want to be notified about all INCOTWs. Or it could be done at the Indian noticeboard. Maybe posting at the noticeboard is a good idea.
(2) Extending the time period will not serve the purpose. If you take a look at the history of INCOTW, there are some article that have undergone a large change during the 7 day period. But for some recent articles it wouldn't have made any difference if the time period was 2 weeks than 1 because no one was interested. If more people take part and nominate and support more articles, then ideally such articles would not be selected in month and would be rejected. We need to clarify the purpose of INCOTW. This has been mentioned by Gurubrahma too. The current aim of INCOTW is to collaborate together to improve articles. Aiming immediately for FA is too big a task for INCOTW. So the main job should be to expand articles and see to it that they atleast meet with standards 1b, 1c, 1d, 3 and 4 of WP:WIAFA. 1a (prose quality), 1e (stability) and 2 (MOS) can be dealt with later at a PR or an FAC.
(3) This is exactly how INCOTW is supposed to work. The only difference is that there isn't one principal author. Though ultimately there should be someone who would take the lead and deliver it to FAC.
(4) and (5) are more to do with INWNB. But in reference to INCOTW, all I can say is that collaboration is for India related articles but not limited to Indian editors. The only rule is that the article should be connected to India in some way. An example would be Indian Peace Keeping Force which primarily deals with the Sri Lankan conflict but is related to India.
- Aksi_great (talk) 14:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
A request, let the current article, Sudhir Phadke stay for one more week. I have just informed WikiProject Biography about this selection. Hopefully they can help out. - Ganeshk (talk) 22:57, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi all - I request your help and attention in establishing this publication. Rama's arrow 20:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Portal:Government of India has been created. Please suggest your views to make it improve. Please take participation in article and list selection. Actually it will work from October 1 in full phase, so anniversary also has dated October 1. Shyam (T/C) 20:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
INCOTW doesnt seem to be moving. Is everything alright? -10:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to ditch Indian Armed Forces, but I am off to a wikibreak. Will be back in around 2 weeks time -- Lost(talk) 09:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I am on a wikibreak. Can someone manage INCOTW for 2-3 weeks while I am away? The procedure is quite easy and would hardly take more than 5-10 minutes. All steps are listed here. Thanks. - Aksi_great (talk) 06:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Transit1 (talk · contribs) and Miranam (talk · contribs) have been indef-blocked as socks of Endgame1 (talk · contribs). In light of these, I think the articles nominated/voted on by these users need to be removed from INCOTW. If any other user is interested to nominate these articles, then they can go ahead. - Aksi_great (talk) 10:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Could someone with more knowledge to me whether this is correct - or should be put up for deletion? Rmhermen 15:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
After Tata Steel was accepted as the INCOTW it did not have any improvements by any registered editors. So my question does INCOTW actually work or is this just for show? --Parker007 02:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
The last week's Indian Collaboration of the week, Religion in India received good response, and underwent 136 intermediate revisions. This is huge, when compared to the number of revisions past few INCOTWs received (some in the range of 4 or 6 revisions).
Thanks everyone for participating in the INCOTW and help improving the article. This week's INCOTW is Education in India. Please help improving the article, and please visit WP:INCOTW so that the collaboration regains the past feats it achieved, as requested in WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I wish to change my nomination and nominate Buniyaad. 68.223.117.139 (talk) 04:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Is INCOTW active now? Maybe the Wikiproject Indians should be more active in keeping INCOTW alive, there are many articles in dire need of assistance. I'm willing to revive this section again, but I daresay I wont be able to do it alone, if anyone is interested please respond in my talkpage. Regards --CSumit Talk 10:04, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Can an article that has already been a collaboration be chosen again? The article in question is Transport in India, which I nad several others have edited, cleaned up, and would like more help in sprucing up. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Guys, please check this new page for collaboration. Please nominate articles there. Thanks.--GDibyendu (talk) 18:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)