Subject: Wikipedia and Nepal - msg#00086

One of my Tamil friends was editing Rajnikanti article in wikipedia.
He was trying to add his new upcoming movie. Rajnikanth is a superstar
in Tamil movie industry, south India. He asked me, do you have your
country artist like Rajnikanth listed in wikipedia. I presumably said,
oh! yea there must be lot. Check Bhuwan KC, Rajesh Hamal, Shiva
Shrestha...! Well I don't know really these article does exist in
wikipedia. I checked later found none of them were on the list. Rajesh
Hamal does have one but just a few line sentences with few link in his
birth place palpa, tansen. I found none of article does exist for
palpa or tansen as well. I checked lots of things around. Found
political leaders, Party and other known figures. With few tidbits
incomplete bias ambiguous information of those who were actually known
in international community in recent year. I checked history logs
found whoever maintain those are most of the foreigner and few
Nepalese guys especially college student.

I wonder might be Devkota has some comprehensive text on wikipedia.
Went through named Laxmi Prasad devkota. His profile was left
incomplete and even in some cases with ambiguous photo and text.

Even Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya has few paragraphs and most of the
section are empty.
I lost my hope in rest of the well known nepali literature
personalities. Leave Sam leave Bhatta Leave Chalisey forget Bhupi

I was shocked, when I found Bhanubhakta Acharya has few lines... I
wonder whether wikipedia itself is unpopular among Nepalese. Is it
lack of awareness among our intellectual people, lack of knowledge,
lack of information, lack of everything that leads to ignorant.

Having no significant nepal related articles in wikipedia encourage me
to Post my feelings here. I feel its absolutely appropriate forum to
make raise this issue here. FOSS is being one of the forefront figure
in Nepal for OpenSource. Wikipedia emerged from same ideology
philosophy that we all advocate every time and the very purpose of
wikipedia is almost same.

Well, for me at least I know Rajesh Hamal very well and I did collect
some fact and added few pics and some films. I felt something that I
can show up that guy tomorrow. He is like a Rajnikant of Nepal. He
seems to feel some existence of our Film industry in the wikipedia
that reflects somehow number of active community are their to bring
their well-known personalities inside wikipedia. Sad! Where is Bhuwan
KC, Gauri Malla, Bipana, Shiva Shrestha, Shashi Shash, Nir Shah ...

I know very well, I'll never be able to complete his biography,
filmography. I will hardly get succeed to lock up this article.
That's not my area though. I am not an expert in the subject but at
least I can say that I contribute something that I felt I should do.

If we can aware this fact to our Journalist or intellectual community,
they could have contribute vast amount of information that will really
begin a new wave of Nepal related information in wikipedia. Even
guys over here can do something helpful.

BTW,

Who is your favorite Nepalese actress?
What is your favorite nepalese novel? [ Seto Bagh, Pagal, Basti
Sumnima, Nilo choli ;) etc..]
Who is your favorite Nepalese singer, band?