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+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
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+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
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-<center><big><big><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
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 <p>'''Issue:''' 3 • '''Date''': 2014 April 01</center>
-<p>'''Greetings''', welcome to the third issue of '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]''', Sarkarverse's monthly newsletter. We're sending you the second edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or have shown interest in Sarkarverse.  To receive future updates of ''Sarkarverse Bulletin'', please '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse_Bulletin#Subscribe|subscribe (or unsubscribe) the bulletin]]'''.
+<p>'''Greetings''', welcome to the third issue of '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]''', Sarkarverse's monthly newsletter. We're sending you the third edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or have shown interest in Sarkarverse.  To receive future updates of ''Sarkarverse Bulletin'', please '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse_Bulletin#Subscribe|subscribe (or unsubscribe) the bulletin]]'''.
 * '''Sarkarverse Featured Content and Bulletin frequency''': Sarkarverse [[Portal:Featured|Featured Content]] and Sarkarverse bulletin have become more systematic. From now Sarkarverse Featured Content on/around 6 and 21 of every month and new issues of Sarkarverse will be published on 1 of every month.
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 <span style="background:orange;border:orange ridge">[[User:Tito Dutta|Tito]]</span><span style="color:blue;background:white;otit;border-bottom-style:ridge;">☸</span><span style="background:#57C738;border:green ridge">[[User talk:Tito Dutta|Dutta]]</span> 03:49, 1 April 2014 (MDT)
+== Sarkarverse Bulletin 5 ==
+<div style="border: 5px ridge #ADC2E4; margin: 1px; padding: 1em 2% 1em">
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<p>[[File:SVLogo.png|120px|link=Sarkarverse]]</p>
+<p><span class="plainlinks">{{URL|http://www.sarkarverse.org/}}</span></p>
+<p>'''Issue:''' 5 • '''Date''': 2014 June 24</center>
+<p>'''Greetings''' and welcome to the fifth issue of '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''. We are sending you this opt-in newsletter, because you subscribed to it or have shown a great interest in Sarkarverse.  If you have not yet subscribed, you may ensure the receipt (or non-receipt) of future updates of ''Sarkarverse Bulletin'' by signing up (or unsubscribing) '''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse_Bulletin#Subscribe|here]]'''.
+* '''Sarkarverse now in Finnish language (Suomi) also''': In mid-June 2014, the Finnish version of Sarkarverse was launched. Much thanks to Premji for this.
+* '''Current number of articles''': Sarkarverse now offers 370 substantive articles. Much credit for the increase goes to Titoji.
+* '''Mobile interface for Sarkarverse''': It's not perfect yet, but Sarkarverse now has a mobile-friendly view as well. Unfortunately, the auto-detect feature does not seem to work very well. Hopefully, we will have this sorted out soon.
+* '''Server stability''': Over the last couple months, our server has been relatively stable. Sarkarverse is a big project, and it taxes our resources considerably. If all goes well, we will upgrade our server in the coming year.
+* '''Sarkarverse Radio''': On Baba's birthday, we successfully ran an almost continuous 24-hour program of Prabhat Samgiita on our [http://svradio.themarga.com/ Sarkarverse Radio]. Our charming DJ was Kusumji. Future radio programs will be announced.
+* '''Sarkarverse Blog''': The [http://sarkarverse.blogspot.com/ Sarkarverse Blog] has been quite active over the last month or two. Mostly the articles contain the new translations of [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/List_of_songs_of_Prabhat_Samgiita Prabhat Samgiita songs] published on Sarkarverse.
+* '''Editors still needed''': Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Sarkarverse is our shortage of editors. We encourage everyone to get involved, but it seems that many are daunted by the prospect. The work is not as hard as some may imagine, and it is very satisfying. Please do get involved.
+<center><span class="plainlinks">'''Follow us'''<br/>[[File:Facebook Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://www.facebook.com/sarkarverse Facebook] [[File:Google Plus logo.png|25px]] on [https://plus.google.com/b/116742497849818520796 Google Plus], on [[File:Twitter Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://twitter.com/sarkarverse Twitter], [[File:Google-Logo.svg|50px]] on [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sarkarverse Google Groups]</span></center>
+</div>
+== Sarkarverse Bulletin ==
+<div style="border: 5px ridge #ADC2E4; margin: 1px; padding: 1em 2% 1em">
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<p>[[File:SVLogo.png|100px|link=Sarkarverse]]</p>
+<p>'''{{maroon|First year review special}}'''</p>
+<p><span class="plainlinks">{{URL|http://www.sarkarverse.org/}}</span></p>
+<p>'''Issue:''' 6 • '''Date''': 2014 October 20</p>
+</center>
+On October 21 [[Sarkarverse]] will be 1-year old.
+=== Achievements ===
+* '''Article count:''' In our first year we published over 400 articles on Sarkarverse. As of this date we have 417 articles. Our users have made well over 16,000 edits.
+* '''Sararkarverse in different languages:''' In the first year, Sarkarverse was started in five languages— English, French, Bengali, Hindi and Finnish
+* '''Prabhat Samgiita and Ananda Marga Caryacarya portals:''' [[Portal:Prabhat Samgiita]] and [[Portal:Ananda Marga Caryacarya]] have been well-started in the first year. Both the portals have more than a hundred articles at this moment.
+* '''New server:''' In Augst 2014 , we moved to new server, which has doubled the speed and stability of our site.
+=== Disappointments===
+* '''Loss of founding member:''' At the end of his first year of work on Sarkarverse, Tito Dutta retired from the project due to financial constraints. We are very sorry to see him go, and we thank him much for his immense contribution to Sarkarverse. We wish him well in all his future endeavors.
+* '''Lack of editors:''' It is a great disappointment that despite inviting, requesting, and reminding many people, we still have very few active editors at this time.
+=== Looking forward ===
+In our second year, we intend to expand on our current achievements. The speed with which that will take place depends on the recruitment of additional editors. Please do consider getting involved.
+<center><span class="plainlinks">'''Follow us'''<br/>[[File:Facebook Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://www.facebook.com/sarkarverse Facebook] [[File:Google Plus logo.png|25px]] on [https://plus.google.com/b/116742497849818520796 Google Plus], on [[File:Twitter Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://twitter.com/sarkarverse Twitter]</span></center>
+</div>
+== Sarkarverse bulletin 2014 December 02 ==
+<div style="border: 5px ridge #FF6600; margin: 1px; padding: 1em 2% 1em">
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<p>[[File:SVLogo.png|100px|link=Sarkarverse]]</p>
+<p><span class="plainlinks">{{URL|http://www.sarkarverse.org/}}</span></p>
+<p>'''Issue:''' 7• '''Date''': 2014 December 02 </p>
+</center>
+* '''New section on the Main page:''' On 2014 November 25,we added a new section [[Main_Page#Latest_articles|Latest articles]] on the [[Main page]]. The section links to a list of the 10 most recent pages. This number may be adjusted manually, and various other filters are offered.
+* '''Return of founding member:''' In our [[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse_Bulletin/Previous_issues#2014_October_20|last issue]] we informed you that [[User:Tito Dutta]] retired from the project. We are happy to announce that he is back.
+* '''Three new portals:''' In November, we have started three new portals: a) [[Portal:Ananda Vacanamrtam]], b) [[Portal:Krsna]] and c) [[Portal:Shiva]]. You may suggest new portals or share your ideas [[Sarkarverse talk:Portals|here]].
+* '''An interesting MediaWiki bug:''' We noticed an interesting MediaWiki bug. Zooming in on any page (except the log-in page) to a magnification of 150% or more was transforming the Sarkarverse logo into the Wikipedia logo. The error was fixed by removing some Wikimedia-based code from our MediaWiki.css page.
+* '''Musical notations for some Prabhat Samgiita songs:''' For some Prabhat Samgiita songs, we have been able to add musical notations contributed to Sarkarverse by Bhaeravaji. We also added a musical notation for a PROUT song that was earlier contributed to PROUT Films by Jyoshnaji.
+* '''Charitable status of AmRevolution, Inc:''' Sarkarverse is a project of [http://amrevolution.org AmRevolution, Inc.], a registered charity in the USA. On December 1, after more than two and a half years effort, we have finally received approval from the United States Internal Revenue Service of our {{H:title|Scan of 501(c)(3) approval letter|[http://sarkarverse.org/Authorization/501%28c%29%283%29_Letter.png 501(c)(3) status.]|link=no|dotted=no}}
+--<span style="background:orange;border:orange ridge">[[User:Tito Dutta|Tito]]</span><span style="color:blue;background:white;otit;border-bottom-style:ridge;">☸</span><span style="background:#57C738;border:green ridge">[[User talk:Tito Dutta|Dutta]]</span> 07:56, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
+</div>
+== Sarkarverse Bulletin: June 2015 ==
+<div style="border: 5px ridge #FF6600; margin: 1px; padding: 1em 2% 1em">
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<p>[[File:SVLogo.png|100px|link=Sarkarverse]]</p>
+<p><span class="plainlinks">{{URL|http://www.sarkarverse.org/}}</span></p>
+<p>'''Issue:''' 8• '''Date''': 2015 June 12 </p>
+</center>
+* '''Major upgrade:''' This month we carried out a major software upgrade on Sarkarverse. The underlying PHP and MediaWiki software were both bumped up two major versions. In consequence, Sarkarverse now offers a more friendly interface for new editors. First there is the ability to quickly change the language with which you view the site and even the keyboard you use to input text. Second, and more interesting, Sarkarverse now provides the new VisualEditor, which allows editing on more of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) basis.
+* '''Almost 300 Prabhat Samgiita:''' We now have almost 300 Prabhat Samgiita songs posted to Sarkarverse. Each of the song articles provides a fresh translation (where applicable), an easily accessed audio link, and detailed information not easily found elsewhere.
+* '''Featured articles:''' If you are looking for reference material on [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/Ananda_Marga Ananda Marga] or [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/Ananda_Marga_Pracaraka_Samgha Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha], check out those two featured articles on Sarkarverse.
+</div>
+--[[User:Abhidevananda|Abhidevananda]] ([[User talk:Abhidevananda|talk]]) 04:22, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
+== Sarkarverse Bulletin: February 2016 ==
+<div style="border: 5px ridge #FF6600; margin: 1px; padding: 1em 2% 1em">
+<center><big>'''''[[Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin|Sarkarverse Bulletin]]'''''</big>
+<p>[[File:SVLogo.png|100px|link=Sarkarverse]]</p>
+<p><span class="plainlinks">{{URL|http://www.sarkarverse.org/}}</span></p>
+<p>'''Issue:''' 9• '''Date''': 2016 February 27 </p>
+</center>
+* '''800 original articles:''' We now have 800 original articles relating to Baba on Sarkarverse. We had hoped to have many, many more by now, but thus far very few have engaged with the project as editors.
+* '''Over 450 Prabhat Samgiita songs:''' We now have articles on over 450 Prabhat Samgiita songs. Each of the individual song articles contains substantial information about the song, including date, place, rhythm, and melody. Each of those articles also contains an original, line-by-line translation of the song and links to at least one audio rendition of the song. This has made Sarkarverse a leading authority on the Web in respect to Baba's music.
+<center><span class="plainlinks">'''Follow us'''<br/>[[File:Facebook Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://www.facebook.com/sarkarverse Facebook] [[File:Google Plus logo.png|25px]] on [https://plus.google.com/b/116742497849818520796 Google Plus], on [[File:Twitter Logo Mini.svg|25px]] on [https://twitter.com/sarkarverse Twitter]</span></center>
+</div>
+-- [[User:Abhidevananda|Abhidevananda]] ([[User talk:Abhidevananda|talk]]) 07:06, 27 February 2016 (UTC)