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Hi Vijay, I added some images and text. I am not entirely sure of the ids, so please keep a watch on the illustrations added and recheck references or expert opinions. For instance I am not sure of the identification of the illustration by Robert Templeton that I added to Neptis jumbah. Shyamal 15:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hoped you may be able to add some info about Butterflys in Silent Valley National Park which is the article of the month, March for Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India. I heard somewhere that the largest in the world lives there but checked it out and that's apparently wrong. Thanks==Marcus 08:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The specimen has it marked as Lamproptera meges. Any id problem ? Shyamal 06:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops my mistake. Corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out. Vijay Barve 11:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Vijay. Nice image ! Do you have a side view that explains the name ? Shyamal 07:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I have only 2 images that I have loaded. Vijay Barve 07:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijay, did you get a chance to handle it? I always try to do so for getting good shots of scale patterns of head from different views, underside, body dorsal and ventral views.

Happy to see that so many indian butterfly photos being added. By your edits, starting new articles and adding so many missing photos, you have become the fourth member of the Indian butterfly endeavour, besides Shyamal, Viren and self. Welcome to the team and congrats!AshLin 13:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, I did not handle the snake. Few people in the group will have better pictures, but I thought it was important to have some pictures to start with. Thank you very much for accepting me as a member of Indian butterfly endeavor. I want to bring in more members in the team soon so that the work really picks up momentum. And thanks for the help and support in helping me to contribute in wikipedia. Vijay Barve 06:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ever considered using Auto Wiki Bot. Will greatly simplify the kind of edits you are doing. I have got my name added but yet to start using it. Regards,AshLin 09:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category tagging is often controversial, especially when widespread species are involved. Also categories tend to be used in a rather slipshod way by many other country users. Lists on the other hand can cite sources for why a species in included in a regional fauna for instance. Eventually, when semantic search is well established, this category system will be redundant. AWB can indeed be a good idea for now though. I can try running it if you want that done urgently. See you tomorrow. Shyamal 09:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. In that case I will hold on the categorization for the time being and work on other aspects. Vijay Barve 09:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for updating it. I was updating offline in a textfile. Imagine my surprise to find it already done! Regards, Ashwin Baindur

I was not aware you were working off line.

Can we call these Image inventories rather than missing lists ? Vijay Barve 17:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, a few comments.

If you are quoting from the excel file provided by Roger Kendrick, please add the reference to that specific list. He has given the exact wording of the reference in his post.

Please consider adding sections for genera. It makes it easier to edit and maintain the list as it grows in size including navigation and placement of images.

If you make a new list, request you take the first line and end sections from one of the other lists and add them. I'm still developing the end sections. In case you make a new list which is not included in the template {{Butterflies and moths of India}}, please amend it and add the new family. You can access the template at Template:Butterflies and moths of India.

I'm updating strictly from Hampson. My data is from an imperfect OCR dump of Hampson. Since my slow internet refuses to download the massive pdfs, I hope someone will correct the specific names by cross-checking from Hampson Vol I.

I request that you take on adding the species from Roger Kendrick's Hong Kong list. We should reference each species to indicate the source, Hampson or Kendrick. We may either use symbols to indicate where the species is listed from or use footnotes. I recommend footnotes.

Regards, AshLin 19:14, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Very useful comments. I will follow them. I will add Subfamily and genera to the list. I will take up the checking of OCR from the pdf soon. Please show me a sample of how we should footnote the species, so that I will take that up too. Vijay Barve 07:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijay,

I include two species in the example given below. The citation wikitext is given in full for the first time you use it. You use a shortcut html-like tag each time thereafter.

wikitext begins...

*'''Scarce Evening Brown''' ''[[Cyllogenes janetae]]'' de Nicéville, 1887 (Bhutan, Naga Hills.)<ref name="Savela Cyllogenes">Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/cyllogenes/index.html|Page on ''Cyllogenes'' genus.]</ref>

*'''Branded Evening Brown''' ''[[Cyllogenes suradeva]]'' (Moore, 1857) (N.India, Sikkim - Bhutan.)<ref name="Savela Cyllogenes"/>

wikitext ends...

At the end of the article you have to make sure the following wikitext is included :-

wikitext begins...

==Cited references==
<references/>

wikitext ends...

You can see the effect of this in List of butterflies of India (Satyrinae). Giving different references for each species is quite painful and slows you down considerably, but I believe we might as well start doing it henceforth.

Regards, AshLin 11:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I will get going in this fashion. Vijay Barve 16:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijay,

As per Manual of Style, the lists should have word 'butterflies' not 'Butterflies'. Please move them to correctly labelled pages using the move tab on the page. The old page and its talk page become automatic redirects to the new page and its talk page. If you need help let me know. Since you are interested in lists would you consider working on a few other important states too - Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh. States which appear in the group as well as completing the Western Ghats and South India.

Also please create a talk page every time and add the following template {{LepidopteraTalk|mid|start}} . The template puts the Project banner on the top. Why mid/start? A list of state butterflies is 'mid' importance while a national list of continental list is 'high' priority. They allow red links to come up which get stubbed and also form indexes to species lists while each state lists merely repeats these links. 'Start' because your list needs to mature before it develops into B class.

AshLin 11:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing our Ashwin. I have done the needful. Do you recomend Western Ghats Butterflies also to be moved to List of butterflies of Western Ghats ?

That would be quite appropriate. AshLin 08:09, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vijay Barve 04:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijaybarve,

I've brought up a policy issue for discussion on WikiProject Lepidoptera here . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 08:53, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijaybarve,

I've brought up two policy issues for discussion on WikiProject Lepidoptera here . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 18:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vijay, could you get someone to check the id of this commons:Image:Bushbrown_wynaad.jpg Shyamal 05:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Marcus 19:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Shyamal 14:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vijay,

I use Firefox (latest one). In my browser the Jairampur record spot falls outside our international boundary in Myanmar. Can you just check it out? Regards, AshLin 16:01, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its okay now.AshLin 08:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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English WikiProject News After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias. Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki. What's New? Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16. The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc. The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011. In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue. Complete To Do List Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

News from Indian-language Wikipedias The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages. The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life. The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup. Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010. The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day. The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months. Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion. A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Signed... SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors) Tinucherian (Distributor) This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

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Hi Vijaybarve, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

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My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:53, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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