Sandy13991

They say that I have to type something to start this talk page , so...

Are you still looking to be adopted?

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

If so, I'd be happy to do so, and help get you up to speed on Wikipedia.

Please tell me about your experience here (the editing you've done, what projects you've participated in, and what tools you've used), and your goals, to help determine where we should begin. The Transhumanist 20:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

I accept. You are now adopted!

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Please add this to your user page:

It will show up looking like this:

The Transhumanist 11:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

First things first

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

You mentioned you would like to improve India-related articles. Excellent.

The very best place to start is the Outline of India. With respect to developing India articles, you should make that page your headquarters.

That's the page where Wikipedia's entire coverage of India is organized. Everything spokes out from there. The better the outline, the better the bird's eye view we have of the whole subject.

It is a topic outline (a taxonomy of topics) related to India. And because topics are linked to Wikipedia articles, it doubles as a table of contents for all of Wikipedia's India-related material.

The Outline of India needs to be maintained and further developed. As you work on it, it will help familiarize you with the articles that Wikipedia has on India. More importantly, it will help identify the gaps in Wikipedia's coverage about India.

The goals with respect to the outline (and its branches) are completeness and refined structure. Outlines are a type of tree structure, showing the parent/offspring relationships of the topics included in the tree.

Improving the structure: if one topic belongs to another topic, then it gets listed under it, usually indented. We use subheadings and bullet lists to represent levels in the hierarchy.

For completeness, we gather topics and add them to the tree.

If a branch grows too large, it can be split off as a straight list or as another outline (an offspring outline). For example, the Outline of geography splits off into outlines of all the continents, outlines of all the countries (including India), and outlines of further divisions (the U.S., has an outline on each of its 50 states, the UK has outlines on each of its 4 constituent countries, and Canada has outlines on some of its provinces).

The idea is to gather all India-related topics, and include them in the outline or its offspring outlines and lists. Topics should be gathered from outside Wikipedia (after all, the subject exists independently of Wikipedia) as well as from inside. Not all of the topics will turn blue. Redlinks indicate gaps. But we'll talk more about that in the future.

So please go to that page and proofread it. If you find anything out of order, please fix it. And if you notice anything missing, please add it in. I'll be watching, and working on it too.

Examples of really good outlines on other countries or autonomous regions include:

I haven't worked on the Outline of India in awhile. I look forward to returning to it and helping you to get up to speed on it, and through it on the whole subject of India on Wikipedia.

As we work on it I'll provide tips and introduce you to tools to help gather topics. And tools to speed up editing (via automation).

See you there. Have fun. The Transhumanist 11:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)Reply