I'm just curious why there's a need to segment the list, and not just use Wiki-EN for this?

tinucherian wrote:

See Description from me, above :)

ashwin.baindur wrote:

Several reasons.

One is of course that we expect a whole lot of India related discussion to take place, which could swamp the present non-country specific threads. People may not like a whole new class or tone of posts suddenly introduced and it may be objected to by the present members.

Secondly, the reverse could also happen, the cultural takeoff for Indian wikipedians, values and modes of wiki-behaviour being different, imho some diffident Indian wikipedians may not post. We see this in Wikimedia India list. Many Indic language wikipedians, perhaps because of their poor grasp of English, do not subscribe to it preferring to stay on in their home turfs. It is likely that in a similar way, some may stay away from an international list.

Thirdly, it is our stand to the Indian Community that English Wikipedia is not something about the rest of the world but as much part of the Indian scene, i.e. an Indic language wikipedia alongwith the rest. In the WikiConference India 2011 in Mumbai last month, I was asked to give a status report on WikiProject India on English Wikipedia, as if it were an indic language wikipedia like the rest.

With 90K articles, WikiProject India on en:WP is second only to Hindi Wikipedia in size. It is probably much larger due to cryptic articles - articles about India without the project banner on their talk pages, or even having red-link talk pages.

We have restarted the Collaboration of the Month and swamped the India-list already. A community wide series of outreach activities in English Wikipedia are planned for the year. Cleanup activity coordination is on. So on and so forth. Subprojects like GLAM in India and Offline English Wikipedia are areas of growth which could find a home here till they grow in future to deserve list of their own.

All these imho suggest a fresh start on a new list rather than piggyback on the existing list.

Wouldn't just -en be better than than -eng?

tinucherian wrote:

I am ok either way, but ISO codes are set to change from -en to -eng very soon :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3

Who will be the list moderators, please? If you'd like to send me their email addresses by email (philippe(at)wikimedia.org), I'll get this started.

tinucherian wrote:

You can add me and Ashwin Baindur ( both on cc list) as the list admins for now.

Done. :)

tinucherian wrote:

Thanks a ton, Philippe :)