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Andhra Pradesh districts 2022

Andhra Pradesh was reorganised with districts count increasing from 13 to 26 on 4 April 2022. Telugu Wikipedia articles were updated in an agile project like manner with the available information with major involvement by Arjunaraoc by August 2022. English Wikipedia articles were updated but did not follow a systematic approach. When reviewed in April 2023, major deficiencies in the article structure, content, links were still found. As English Wikipedia articles have page views of 10-20 times more than Telugu Wikipedia articles, there is a need to update them in a systematic manner. All contributors are invited to participate in this initiative, by contributing to the various tasks, updating status table and/or provide feedback by checking the completed changes and discussing further improvements needed on the respective talk pages.

For model articles, please see Krishna district (diff for the effort in April 2023) (old district page), Tirupati district(diff for the effort in April 2023) (new district page)

Analysis of updates during the period from 2022-04-04 to 2023-03-03 was done. Active editors (at least average of 3 edits on a page over one year) ranges from 2 (Parvatipuram Manyam) to 17 (Konaseema). The median count of such editors is 7 and median of total such edits per page is 38 and median count of edits per editor per page is 6. Out of 17 editors, who made at least 3 edits per month, I found that about half of them contributed constructive edits, while the remaining comprised of disruptors/vandalism fighters/copy editors. Only 7 of 26 districts have watchers more than 29. All of these are older districts. Guntur district has highest watcher count at 42. For information Andhra Pradesh article has watcher count of 490 as on 2023-04-17. Newly created district page articles were assessed with Stub, Start or C class.

The first and second sprints were completed in April and May 2023 with only two people contributing valid content, out of 24 human editors.

Article structure update[edit]

Proposed article structure slightly modified from Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian districts (See discussion)

1. Lede
2. Etymology
3. History
4. Geography
5. Demographics
6. Administrative divisons
7. Cities and towns
8. Politics
9. Economy
10. Transport
11. Education
12. Culture
13. Sports
14. Tourism
15. Notable people
16. References

Content improvements[edit]

1. Reformating of Mandal information from wikitable to a basic HTML multicolumn format, which can display multicolumn on desktops with large screen space and change to single column for mobile views.
2. Historical taluk information was added in several articles without proper citations. This is not useful and needs to be removed, moving any summary of historical taluks information into History section.
3. OSM based district map to be added in the infobox. Overpass-turbo script based OSM interactive map of mandals is to be added in External links section in place of static OSM maps.
4. Content updation reflecting the formation of new district and for new districts using the old district information if appropriate.
5. Tourism section is absent in several new district articles and some old district articles. This needs updation with data from reliable sources and/or info from Telugu wikipedia articles.
6. Several pages had more citations needed and/or copy edit needed warning notices. These are to be removed after appropriate updates
7. Official website info in Wikidata needs correction to “.ap.gov.in” from the earlier “nic.in”
8. Infobox update: Coordinates for the map infobox to be update to that of district headquarters, One photo instead of photo montage. any other useful photos could to be moved to Tourism section.
9. Tourism, Notable people to be updated into a paragraph format, limiting the selection particularly in Notable people. Citations are required for all sections, except the lede, which should be a summary of the article, though some people would like to have citations in lede as well.
10. Basic copy editing, as articles some times have poor sentence construction, due to experimentation by newbies without adequate English skills, which was not caught by page patrollers.

Easy to implement improvements[edit]

1. Update Tourism section with info from latest district level E- brochures available at AP Toursim website. Update the status below with {{tick}} before the page name below, when work is completed for a particular page.

Sprints[edit]