User talk:Tinucherian/Archives/2009/September

Bot for coordinate addition to Indian city/town/village pages missing coords.

Dear Tinu,

I am an Indian Wikipedia contributor, and I _hate_ articles of towns and cities which lack coordinates. Therefore, I decided to do something about it, and I adopted some methods (used some Python scripts with the Yahoo! Maps API) to get the coordinates of various missing places, cross-check them on Google Maps, and then enter them on their page. I adopted this for Madhya Pradesh, and thankfully, managed to eliminate all but a handful or articles from Category:Madhya Pradesh location articles needing coordinates; I'll try to eliminate it fully.

Next, I wish to take up Tamil Nadu. However, I was hoping to use a bot to complete this task. I looked at the pywikipediabot sample scripts and wrote up a bot to remove the existing latitude/longitude (blank) spots in articles and replace them with mine. My idea is, if I separately create a text database of location coordinates, I can use a script to do the edits semi-automagically, to save time, and my fingers some pain.

Do you think this is a good idea? While I will reread the documentation for the bots, do you have any specific suggestions or comments regarding this?

Thanks! Kumar Appaiah (talk) 17:03, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

It is a very great idea.. something that I have been thinking also to start... Now that you are near ready, register a Bot username and please file a BRFA for the bot approval. Me also being a BAG member , would like to see a trial of the bot. If successful, it will be a gr8 help to Indian settlements articles. One suggestion is that there is avoid rewriting the articles that already has geo-coordinates , if you have such plans in case. Looking forward to hear from you -- Tinu Cherian - 17:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Tinu! I'll get down to writing a bot, create an account, and let you know when I request approval in a few days. - Kumar Appaiah Update: Here it is: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Kumar Appaiah Bot. Suggestions welcome. - Kumar Appaiah (talk) 23:07, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Tinu, sorry if I am being impatient, but could you just confirm that the steps I have taken for requesting approval are the correct ones? I understand that review might take a long time, but that's fine. Thanks, and sorry for the trouble. :-) - Kumar Appaiah (talk) 01:26, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:FILMS August Newsletter

The WikiProject Films Newsletter Volume IV, no. 8 - August 2009
Project news Are you interested in helping the project continue to grow while collaborating with other users? Elections for coordinators will be starting this month. The term is for six months and any member who has at least 500 total edits can nominate themselves for one of the seven seats. Interested members can sign-up at the election page. Nominations will run from September 1-14, with the voting stage lasting from September 15-28. The tag and assess drive has been postponed to the beginning of October. The drive will focus on reassessing all of the Start, Stub, and Unassessed articles. In addition, articles will be tagged with the proper task forces and improvement tags. Keep an eye out for details of the drive, as awards will be provided to participating editors. After a recent discussion concerning Future templates, it was decided that they should be deprecated in articles. As a result, {{future film}} is no longer being used in our articles. Discussion over keeping the Future-class within the project will be discussed later this month, so keep an eye on WT:FILM. The results of the July 2009 article improvement drive are now available. With an initial goal of each member contributing to a single article to a higher class over the course of July, participation only included a few members. Consider visiting the improved articles to see how you can further expand a film-related article you are interested in. Our project currently has over 60,500 film-related articles, with 55,900 that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class. Are you new to the project or are interested in getting involved with new areas of WP:FILMS? Remember to keep an eye on the announcements page, which constantly updates current articles that need assistance or are attempting to be upgraded in class. There are a variety of task forces open for various genre and regional film topics. If working on backlogs interest you, there are multiple articles that you could use your help. Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in August 2009. One FA and two GAs were also delisted. National Film Registry (8/18) The Warped Ones (8/12) Vampyr (8/15) Hard Target (8/17) Watchmen (8/17) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (8/18) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (8/20) The Hudsucker Proxy (8/23) Triumph of the Will (8/21) The Care Bears Movie (8/16) The Lion King (8/16) Member news New members to the project since the last issue include: Bertaut, Theologian777, Paperoverman, Andrewire, Godardmelville, Tim1357, Valkyrie Red, BlueLankan, Jusdafax, FixingEntertainment, UKER, & Jihad Santoso. 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Hi Tinucherian - I wanted to let you know that I have removed the link to the news story that you included in your message of condolence. His family is no doubt extremely distressed by this tragedy. If, perchance, they choose to look at his talk page, it will probably be a little easier for them if they don't wind up clicking a link that takes them back to one of the very sad news stories about the incident. I hope you don't mind; if you really feel it is important for it to be there, I will not revert you. Best, Risker (talk) 05:28, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I understand...All I wanted to let other wikipedians to know what had happened. No problems -- Tinu Cherian - 07:29, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XLII (August 2009)
From the coordinators The voting phase of the eighth coordinator elections, for the October–March term, started on 13 September and will run until 23:59 Sat 26 September. Each candidate garnering twenty or more endorsements will be appointed, to a maximum of fifteen. This election has a strong field of sixteen candidates running, offering many skills and representing all aspects of the project. The Contest Department is going from strength to strength and drew a massive number of entries in August (see the results below). If you haven't fielded any entries yet, please think about doing so. It's great fun!  Roger Davies talk 14:02, 11 September 2009 (UTC)	Articles of note New featured articles: Convoy GP55 George Koval HMS Endeavour James Newland John Lerew Kaiser class battleship Keith Johnson (cricket administrator) König class battleship Siward, Earl of Northumbria Unification of Germany Victoria Cross for Australia New featured lists: List of Second World War Victoria Cross recipients List of Victoria Cross recipients by campaign Marine Corps Brevet Medal Order of battle at the Battle of San Domingo New featured pictures: "Students Going to Man the Fortifications" "Our New 'First Lord' at Sea" New A-Class articles: 24th Infantry Division (United States) Bayern class battleship Derfflinger class battlecruiser Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld Ellis Wackett No. 3 Commando Operation Pleshet SMS König SMS Hindenburg
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Latur Division does not exist. Can be verified from List of districts of Maharashtra. User:Jazzradio has added this category to several pages. I suspect Jazzradio to be a sock puppet of User:Pradeepbhadikar. How to remove this category and set right the affected pages? Paalappoo (talk) 16:58, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

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2010 flag suggestion

Hi, Tinucherian. I couldn't help notice that you don't have a flag yet for the 2010 WikiCup. Might I suggest the Iran flag (1964-1979), or if you don't want to play under Iran, you could always be The Conch Republic (my personal favorite). But of course, you can pick yours, but I 'm throwing around suggestions. Enjoy! Secret Saturdays (talk to me) 19:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 September 2009

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• Localisation improvements: LocalisationUpdate has gone live
• Office hours: Sue Gardner answers questions from community
• News and notes: Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more
• Wikipedia in the news: Stunting of growth, Polanski protected and more
• Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
• WikiProject report: WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
• Features and admins: Approved this week
• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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