CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-01-24

Sanskrit Wikipedia policy discussion and admins training (follow-up)

• Date: 24 January 2016
• Venue: CIS office, Bangalore

Participants

• User:Sayant Mahato

CIS representatives

• User:Titodutta

Progress of last week's tasks

The day's discussion started with checking progress of the last week's proposed tasks:

1. Starting discussion on Sa WP Village Pump on core content polciies Done
2. Post on mailing list about immediate future plans.
3. Monitor the VP discussion. Done
4. Practice admin tasks: A few Done, importing Not done
5. List of scripts, gadgets: Partially Done and
6. 2 draft policies, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR were drafted

Creating policy pages under user-subpage

Ass two policy pages WP:NPOV and WP:NOR were drafted, those were uploaded on a Sanskrit Wikipedia user subpage:

1. sa:सदस्यः:Sayant Mahato/विकिविषयनीतिः/तटस्थदृष्टिः
2. sa:सदस्यः:Sayant Mahato/विकिविषयनीतिः/मूलसंसोधनविरहता

Posted on Village pump for inputs

Importing

Special:Wanted templates page was studied, and these templates were imported:

No	Template	Imported from	Translation status	Errors
1	sa:Template:Underlinked	En Wikipedia	Done	None
2	sa:Template:Dead link	En Wikipedia	To be done	Script error
3	sa:Template:Clarify	En Wikipedia	To be done	Ending square braces
4	sa:Template:Fix-span	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
5	sa:Template:Em dash	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
6	sa:Template:Warning	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
7	sa:Template:1x	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
8	sa:Template:2x	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
9	sa:Template:Extinct	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
10	sa:Template:Noitalic	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
11	sa:Template:Nobold	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
12	sa:Template:Nounderline	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
13	sa:Template:Copy edit	En Wikipedia	Done	None
14	sa:Template:Fanpov	En Wikipedia	Done	None
15	sa:Template:No documentation	En Wikipedia	To be done	None
16	sa:Template:Pad	En Wikipedia	To be done	None
17	sa:Template:Steady	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
18	sa:Template:Other uses	En Wikipedia	To be done	None
19	sa:Template:Birth year and age	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
20	sa:Template:Death-date and age	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None
21	sa:Template:Wikiquote	En Wikipedia	To be done	None
22	sa:Template:Sister project	En Wikipedia	Not needed	None

Using admin tools

These were demonstrated/practised:

• Deletion and undeletion (user subpage) -- different processes
• MergeHistory: how to merge two articles' edit history -- how to unmerge -- simple test with demonstration
• RevisionDeleition:
  • How to delete a particular revision of a page
  • How to delete edit summary
  • How to hide username/ip in revision history

And

• What are the use of these?

Tasks

Tasks to be done in next 2 weeks are-

Off-topic trainings

1. How to copy unicode symbols from Firefox address bar in as it is condition (needed to copy Indic characters): Please use this, answer 1.