Knowledgeable Hindus, Please contribute with your Knowledge

12-17-2005, 03:44 PM

Namaskar

You can contribute to Hinduism related articles in World's largest Encyclopedia "Wikipedia". We can edit and add information at any time to update articles. Many Hindus and people who are knowledgeable in Hinduism are already working on Hinduism related articles but because of vastness of Hinduism and Hindu Philosphy ...These articles need more contributers. Also, we need more Hindus who can stand in front of anti-hindu personalities who come just to add that same age old Hinduism's misconceptions to these articles.

This is world's most popular and reputed Encyclopedia and many Internet sites are indirectly dependent on this. Contributing to Hinduism articles here means you are projecting Hinduism on global level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

Thanks

maadhav · 12-17-2005, 09:21 PM

the difficulty is,
any fool can come and write nonselse about hinduism.
there is no way to know who is the authority and who is not.

we need our own Hindu encyclopedia controleld by a Hindu authority org. Then tell the wporld where to find correct info about hinduism.

for the seekers of truth (as the hindus ought to be)
there is no motivtion to go and find it in wikipedia.

12-18-2005, 12:55 AM

I've found wikipedia's Hinduism articles to be some of the most unbiased on the internet. However, I'm sure some Hindus from sectarian organisations wouldn't see it like that. The problem is you can't keep all the Hindu happy with everything written there as Hindu are a very diverse religious community and have different ways of worship and their understanding of Hinduism varies.

I have seen the article of Shaivism esp Saiva Siddhanta, which I believe was taken from Hinduism today. Hinduism today is run by saivite monks of Hawaii who may be biased in their claim that Saivism is the oldest religion (sect). You can see how other Hindus would disagree. But it should be down to a matter of proof. The information should be varifiable.

rahul · 12-18-2005, 10:37 AM

But we can revert that immediately and watch history of edits and additions anytime. More Hindus contributing there means more immediate actions. This article is base of many other sites and most visited Hindu articles on Internet.

I have also found wikipedia article one of the best and unbiased. There are separate sections for different Hindu denominations which are written as per there views.

Sephiroth · 12-18-2005, 10:18 PM

any fool can come and write nonselse about hinduism.
there is no way to know who is the authority and who is not.

True that every fool (even non-Hindus) can write nonsense about Hindusm (or Jewish Tradition for that matter). Just saying you don't do this because people will wonder about authority of you to say such, doesn't make the problem go away.

Many Westerners who begins to seek understanding of Hindusm will refer to sites such as Wiki more than your own Encyclopedia so the best way is, provide defination and link it to websites like this own where the readers can choose to (or not to) double check the information.

If you don't expand to find problem, you will attend to avoid the problem and sooner or later, problem will overpower you.