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Bharatpedia community
TypeInformal organization of individual contributors
FocusFree, open-content, wiki-based Internet encyclopedias
Area served
India
ServicesAuthoring and editing Bharatpedia
Websitebharatpedia.org

The Bharatpedia community is the community that creates and maintains the online encyclopedia Bharatpedia. Editors may be known as Bharatpedians.

Current Editors Statistics[edit]

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The English Bharatpedia currently has 4,056[1] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (0[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[edit]

Template:Registered editors by edit count Some accounts have special permissions, including:[3]

Motivations for contributing[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Contribution styles[edit]

Some Bharatpedians welcome newcomers; some Bharatpedians award those whom they feel deserve awards. Some upload images or help others do so; some work on history articles; some clean up grammar; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all these tasks; some, of course, take on none. Whatever one decides to do, every Bharatpedian is a valuable member of the community.

Bharatpedians who contribute mainly by writing and editing the contents of Bharatpedia, without interacting much on Talk or administrative pages, are sometimes called exopedians. A multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common Bharatpedia-related userboxes: Bharatpedia:Userboxes/Bharatpedia.

References[edit]

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  3. These numbers are dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBERINGROUP:groupname
  4. Although there are two co-founders, Jimbo Wales is the only member of this group.