| Type | Informal organization of individual contributors |
|---|---|
| Focus | Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet encyclopedias |
Area served | India |
| Services | Authoring and editing Bharatpedia |
| Website | bharatpedia |
The Bharatpedia community is the community that creates and maintains the online encyclopedia Bharatpedia. Editors may be known as Bharaypedians.
Current Editors Statistics
Template:Bharatpedia editor graph
The English Bharatpedia currently has 4,643[1] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (64[2] have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered Bharatpedians also contribute to the site.
User permissions
Template:Registered editors by edit count Some accounts have special permissions, including:[3]
- 0 account creators
- 6 administrators
- 0 autopatrolled
- 15 bots
- 2 bureaucrats
- 2 checkusers
- 858 confirmed users
- 0 edit filter managers
- 0 event coordinators
- 0 extended confirmed users
- 0 file movers
- 0 founder[4]
- 1 importers
- 0 IP block exempt users
- 0 mass message senders
- 5 new page reviewers
- 0 oversighters
- 0 page movers
- 0 pending changes reviewers
- 0 researchers
- 1 rollbackers
- 0 template editors
- 0 copyright violation bot
Some user groups (such as stewards) act globally, and thus they do not get local flags and local rights.
Motivations for contributing
The most commonly indicated motives are "fun", "ideology", and "values", whereas the least frequently indicated motives were "career", "social", and "protective" (as in "reducing guilt over personal privilege").
Nomenclature
One could argue that "Bharatpedist" would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. Bharatpedian, though, suggests being part of a group, community or demonym (a resident of a locality). So in this sense, Bharatpedians are people who form the Bharatpedia Community. The term "Bharatmedian" is also widely used to include contributors to all the projects supported by the Bharatmedia Foundation.
References
- ↑ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFUSERS
- ↑ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS
- ↑ These numbers are dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBERINGROUP:groupname
- ↑ Although there are two co-founders, Jimbo Wales is the only member of this group.