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Suggestions to increase participation

PINQ has seen some very slow activity these last few months.. I have two suggestions to speed up the action:

Each Question should be framed around an India-related red link.. (See exampleshere) This way, the question will be of interest to all Indian Wikipedians, hard enough (only obscure Indian topics are red-links now), and hopefully lead to creation of articles based on information presented in the questions..
Each guess should be accompanied by a {{PINQ-Y}} or {{PINQ-N}} next to the guesser's name, generating and , respectively, to indicate whether or not they would be available to post the next question if their guess turns out to be right.. That way, if the guesser has indicated upfront, the question-setter for that question asks the next question too, without delay..

What does everyone think? -- Longhairandabeard (talk) 09:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your second suggestion, but I am not sure whether it speeds up things or not. Even now, the baton of posting a question passes to the previous question-setter after some prescribed amount of time. It may be the case that no one is using that chance. It would help if we can stick to the time limits. For your first suggestion, I feel that it might decrease participation. Your intentions are good that the red link articles may get created or some may get updated, but people who are really not much into article editing or creating may get disappointed. One thing I do after reading a question is to search relevant articles on wikipedia and then proceed to googling later on. The knowledge I gain from those articles, though they may not give answers to the question, is huge and that keeps me visiting this quiz again and again. Anyways, I have encountered questions here which are from wikipages with small amount of work going on or new facts researched by individuals. Such questions take time to get answered. These might get a few disinterested in them, but the easier questions help them to join back in the fun. So, I feel that, by restricting to red links and stubs, we might lose participation. Goutham787 (talk) 16:02, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I welcome second suggestion. It's need of the hour. For the first suggestion, it can be explored and tried.--Su_hit (talk) 05:04, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments, guys! Let's wait for a couple more days to hear from others, before putting the second suggestion into place.. As for the first suggestion, I suspect part of the problem is the time taken to find a suitable question to ask, which deters people from taking up the baton.. Looking into India-related stubs and redlinks can give some good ideas.. (Actually, the qs don't have to be difficult.. They could be made simple enough to get from a Google search, depending on the question-setter's inclination..) I suppose we could put this one more as a suggestion, than a rule.. After all, the quiz is using Wikipedia's resources, and should be contributing back in some manner.. -- Longhairandabeard (talk) 09:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since Round 36

Dear friends, In addition to the existing 'Leader Board', I have added a new table named as "Score Board" from this round. The intention is to update the scores as each question gets answered so that the final tallying will be easier. Hope this is all right. Thanks ViswaPrabha വിശ്വപ്രഭ (talk) 12:08, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Restore the utilty of this quiz!

This Quiz was conceived to be about helping articles in India develop. It is not about finding esoteric facts and proving how intelligent we are. After #22, the red link system earlier in use has no longer been used. Wikipedia is not a social networking site. Unless the afficionados of this quiz can demonstrable show that this quiz fulfils its purpose, I shall be nominating this page for deletion. Please use this facility for constructive development of Indian articles on Wikipedia in addition to having fun. AshLin (talk) 05:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion

It is proposed to delete Portal India/Quiz from Wikipedia as it does not concern Wikipedia. Please participate in the discussion here. AshLin (talk) 10:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I dont see why the quiz needs to be deleted. It in fact serves a very important function of bringing India related topics to attention. Wether or not they are red links does not really matter, because there's only so many red links you're going to have (especially given the vast number of Indian wikipedians) before you start accepting or actively seeking or promoting unencyclopaedic entries. What matters is that under developed articles can also recieve attention. I can specifically point to the article on Virendranath Chattopadhyaya which came up in the quiz as an already developed article but brought to my attention the topic of the Indian freedom movement abroad especially during World War I, from which I developed a large number of articles in the Category:India House, Category:Hindu-German Conspiracy, Category:Anushilan Samiti. Perhaps, what you are looking for are guidelines which refine the questions from pedantic trivialism, but I feel that effort should be aimed more at the users who pose such questions rather than a frustrated attempt at deleting the page altogether.[[::User: rueben_lys| rueben_lys]] (talk · contribs) 13:06, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly participate where the discussion is taking place and read the discussion before you respond. You will see that the motive is primarily to reform the quiz, but except for indignant responses like yours, no one is willing to pledge to change things for the better and restore meaningfulness to the quiz. AshLin (talk) 14:37, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive my indignant response to reading exactly what you have written. If the motives are certain something then have the commonsense to put it exactly as you wish to put it. And at every edit, do remember the five pillars of the website and not start the habit of preaching to others about what to read before whatever to write.[[::User: rueben_lys| rueben_lys]] (talk · contribs) 17:30, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for being abrupt and not remembering the five pillars, especially since I was indignant myself. I should have been much more civil. My further response on the Noticeboard, below the discussion. AshLin (talk) 03:08, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This quiz certainly improves the quality of articles on Wikipedia India; take this round for eg. out of 7 questions so far, 2 are sourced from Wikipedia itself (one is mine), both proved to be wrong, one is corrected, the second one needs to be corrected yet. 01:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prasadnsr (talk • contribs)

Spelling mistakes

I am a little Gnome who goes around correcting spellings and have found several spelling mistakes in the Portal:India/Quiz Archives
To give just one example, in this search today (12 May 2011) for "Refering", there are 10 mis-spellings. The three dated yesterday and today I have corrected, just leaving the 7 from the Portal:India/Quiz/Archives.
Whilst archives are not usually changed, would anyone object if I corrected these?
Arjayay (talk) 18:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone would mind, but I really don't see the point, since these pages aren't in the article space. Yes Michael? •^Talk 18:14, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to add another small line to the rules

If a user has answered a question right, but is not in a position to submit a new question, and someone else has put up a new question on his behalf, the original user shall restrain from answering this particular subsequent question. However, he can rejoin the quiz immediately on the next (second subsequent) question. This will ensure equal chances for all users to be in the fair race. ViswaPrabha വിശ്വപ്രഭ (talk) 19:05, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree --Jairodz (talk) 15:34, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good rule, but think of the questions unanswered/attended and open for days together and even the enthusiasm is seems to be low here now..Prasad (talk) 05:45, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]