Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED

2013-10-02 Thread Vishnu T
Many congratulations from India, Nathalie!!

Vishnu

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013, Christophe Henner 
christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 We have the great pleasure to announce Nathalie Martin is starting
 today as the new Executive Director of Wikimédia France!

 Her hiring is the tipping point of a process we started last January
 when we hired a HR firm to audit our organization and support us in
 finding the right person for this key role.

 With a background in political science and organizations strategy,
 Nathalie has a deep experience managing several associations of
 similar or bigger size as Wikimedia France. Even though she is not
 from the movement, we believe she'll adapt quickly to who we are.

 She came to Wikimania in Hong-Kong, and some of you may have had the
 pleasure to meet her. By coming to Wikimania she had the luck to
 experience in 3 day what Wikimedia is at large, to meet wikimedians
 from all around the world. I'm happy to say that she too suffered from
 PWD (Post-Wikimania Depression).

 If you need to contact her, her email address is
 nathalie.mar...@wikimedia.fr. Please keep in mind that it's her first
 day within our movement and she still will need few days to adapt to
 our awesomeness

 Please join us in welcoming Nathalie!

 Best,

 PS: please keep her in copy of your answers :)

 Christophe HENNER | Vice-chair
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-10-28 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Ansuman,

Thanks for flagging your concerns pertaining to the Access to Knowledge
(A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

Most of these are in the pipe-line (or works in progress) and we will share
updates on each one of the queries you have posted, on the mailing lists
and/or on-wiki in the next 15-20 days. We will also update on our failures
in meeting some of the plans.

There are some delays with the taking off of some of our current year plans
[0]. However, I fail to understand where we have lied? All the A2K work is
periodically i.e. monthly, (except for once where we clubbed two months
newsletters as we were redesigning the newsletter based on feedback
received from some Indian Wikimedia community members0 published through
A2K Newsletter.  The Newsletters were widely circulated on all Indian
Wikimedia mailing lists.

Please also see:

a) All CIS-A2K Newsletters here [1] under the section The Access to
Knowledge Bulletin.

b) All the Events CIS-A2K has organized towards strengthening the Wikimedia
movement in India. We are currently updating all the events on this [2]
Meta page and soon you will see all the events conducted/supported by A2K
since September 2012.

c) Support to various requests placed by the Indian Wikimedia community. [3]

More updates to follow.

Vishnu
[[:m:User:Visdaviva]]

[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014
[1] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests




On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi all,

 This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.


 ---
 ---

 Me:
 And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
 and selection process, and why?

 Vishnu:
 BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
 BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
 INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
 SHARE THE LINK.


 Me:
 Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
 meta and share the same in the mailing list.

 Vishnu:
 YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
 RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
 TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
 FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
 --

 If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know.

 What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year?
 If so you should have told the  community. Don't you think so?

 Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the
 job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta
 officially
 . I don't think there is any even off-wiki
 . (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works)


 We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what?


 Few more questions..

 Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Teamhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231
 ,

 Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231

 Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231

 If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the
 meta pages?

 Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
 long are your two weeks?*
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231

 What about *Quarterly Community Survey* mentioned here,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231?
 Is there any plan to do this ever?

 And on this
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_MoU_for_India_A2K_projecthttp://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231,
 which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the
 Foundation.

 I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on
 anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we
 don't get to see that! Why?

 * Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??*

 I request the foundation or whoever is 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-10-29 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Ansuman,

On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.


 ---
 ---

 Me:
 And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
 and selection process, and why?

 Vishnu:
 BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
 BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
 INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
 SHARE THE LINK.


We have published a blog post on the Program Officer selection process on
September 10, 2013.[1]  This has also been shared with the Indian Wikimedia
community as part of the September A2K Newsletter [2], which was posted on
all the Indian Wikimedia lists.

Best,
Vishnu

[1]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/selection-of-programme-officer-pilot-projects-a2k
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-October/010575.html
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Adventure, alpha testers needed

2013-10-29 Thread Vishnu T
Hello Jake,

This is fantastic for an Alpha sage! Have gone through the entire mission.
There was some problem in loading the next levels at certain stages and I
had to refresh the page couple of times. Would be nice if this could be
tested with a completely new set of users across geographies and age-groups
in Beta stage. I could help finding people from India.

Would like this to be finalized soon and try to customize it to the Indian
languages.

Great work!

Cheers,
Vishnu


On 29 October 2013 21:40, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Went through mission 1 and the main feedback is that it's just too
 long. You should break the missions in smaller, quicker steps.

 The interface is visually pleasant and as far as I can see, it gets
 you through all the basic editing skills, which is nice. However, the
 messages are not always in the same place and sometimes are not
 visible in the visible part of the page, making it a little confusing
 for people without much computer skills. It would also help to be able
 to move the box.

 I especially like the little badges you get, but I'm not quite sure
 how they are aligned (perhaps because I only got 1): the first one was
 put in the middle of the page (horizontally)

 Are there any technical details on the game and the difficulty of
 implementing it on other wikis?

 Thanks,
   Strainu

 2013/10/28 Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com:
  Some thoughts upon running through this (roughly in the order I am
  experiencing them):
 
 - This is actually pretty cool. Cooler than I expected it to be!
 - Instructions sometimes tell me to click edit source and sometimes
 to
 click edit, even though it always means that I should click edit
 source. Since the VE button says edit, this is potentially pretty
 confusing.
 - At the end of missions, the button says Congrats me!. That's
 pretty
 jarring English - more natural would be either, Congrats, me! or
 Congrats to me!
 - The select how you would reply to this person challenges
 are...patronizing? That's not quite the right word, but I don't think
 they're modelling anything useful by basically pointing out hey, you
 shouldn't be a rude jackass as if it's someone's going to read those
 options and go yes! this is clearly how I should act!. More useful
 would
 be modelling interaction strategies and tricks, like how to engage
 with
 some who's left you a rude message or even just what information is
 useful
 to provide to other users.
 - Galactic challenges keep launching new tabs for me when they don't
 seem like they ought to (i.e. there's no reason I need to have the
 results
 of that challenge preserved in one firefox tab while I move on in
 another)
 - The watchlist module has instructions that are a little bit
 confusing - it instructs you on *how *to watchlist (blue star, etc),
 but
 then tells you to *click *on watchlist on the top right. Since both
 the star and the actual watchlist link are on the top right, it's
 likely
 going to be unclear to newbies whether you want them to click on the
 star
 you just explained, or the link you didn't.
 - In general when you're telling people to click X above, it might
 be
 useful to use quotes so they know you're telling to click on
 something that
 literally says that - tell them to *click contributions above
 *rather
 than to *click contributions above*
 - When doing spelling corrections, the hover box listing what I needed
 to correct obscured part of the text that needed correcting. I
 couldn't
 correct that until I closed the box. Once I did that, I was bumped
 out of
 the lesson entirely. Couldn't figure out how to the mission to pick
 back up
 there, so I had to stop. Why can't we either minimize the
 instructions box,
 or have it resurrect when we complete a step (that is, if I did what
 it
 wanted me to do, it should pick back up smoothly when I save the page
 with
 its next instruction, rather than just disappearing forever because I
 had
 to click the X)
 
  In short: really very cool, but in the parts I managed to get through
  (Missions 1-2 and part of 3) there are some small interface issues that
  need work, and one *glaring *one that short-circuited my attempt to get
  through a mission and, I guess, the entire adventure.
 
  -Fluffernutter
 
 
  On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Hi folks! I've been working for the past 7 months on an interactive
 guided
  tour for new editors called '''The Wikipedia Adventure''', as part of a
 WMF
  Individual Engagement Grant.  The game is an experiment in teaching our
  aspiring future editors in an educational but playful way.
 
  *This week I need some '''alpha-testers''' to kick the tires and
 basically
  try to break it.  I'm interested in general impressions and suggestions
 of
  course, but I'm really looking 

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcement] CIS-A2K Grant Report for September 2012-June 2013

2013-11-05 Thread Vishnu T
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society's(CIS) Access to
Knowledge (A2K) Program, India!

As many of you know that the Wikimedia Foundation approved a 22 month grant
to the CIS-A2K. The aim of the grant was to support the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India.

Please find the Grant Report for the first 10 months period (i.e. September
2012-June 2013) on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_%E2%80%93_June_2013%29https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_–_June_2013%29


 CIS-A2K will be happy to receive your feedback. Please let us know if you
have any suggestions, questions and concerns about the report and our work.
We would be glad to have this feedback on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_%E2%80%93_June_2013%29https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_–_June_2013%29


 We are thankful to the Wikimedia community in India, Wikimedia India
Chapter and the Wikimedia Foundation for actively engaging with our work.
We will continue to work upon our deficiencies, failures and successes.


 Warm regards,

Vishnu

Program Director, CIS-A2K
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-07 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Micru,

Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community might
be keen to take part in this. They have also recently released an offline
CD (volume 2) of the Malayalam Wikisource.

Taking the liberty to copy the Malayalam list on this for them to take lead
on this.

CIS (not from the A2K Grant) will be glad to sponsor two prizes (one e-book
reader and one portable pen-scanner), if the ML community take lead on this.

Cheers,
Vishnu



On 7 November 2013 05:28, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:

 On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to
 celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary.

 The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the
 participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get points
 per page. The one with the most points would win an ebook reader.

 So far WM-IT and Amical Wikimedia have comited each the prize for their
 respective contests on the Italian and Catalan Wikisource. WM-AU and WM-DC
 are considering to sponsor the English edition.

 If you would like to help us to organize more language editions or find
 more sponsors, get in touch.

 If you would like to participate, stay tuned! :)

 Cheers,
 Micru
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-11-20 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Ansuman,

Thanks for flagging this. All the profiles of the CIS-A2K team members are
now updated. Please see [1].

Best,
Vishnu

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team

On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:



 Me:
 Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
 meta and share the same in the mailing list.

 Vishnu:
 YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
 RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
 TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
 FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-11-20 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Ansuman,

On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Teamhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231
 ,

 Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231

 Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231


A comprehensive mid-term grant report for the period Sept. 2012 to June
2013 of CIS-A2K is published on Meta here [1].

CIS-A2K had been publishing monthly newsletters and circulating it widely
to the community through the Indian mailing lists. These give an accurate
picture of the CIS-A2K activities on a monthly basis and serve as a monthly
report of the work done. We will also initiate measures to put up these
details on Meta as indicated here [2].

Best,
Vishnu

[1] http://bit.ly/A2K-NR
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports#Monthly_Reports
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-11-20 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Ansuman,


On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:


 Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
 long are your two weeks?*
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231

 We have clarified it here [1]


 What about *Quarterly Community Survey* mentioned here,
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231?
 Is there any plan to do this ever?


 Yes, we are working on the Quarterly report for the period July-Sept. 2013
and will be sharing soon.

However, in terms of participatory and continuous mode of
evaluationhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluation,
we foresee a challenge in actively involving the respective language
community members in quarterly evaluation cycles. Firstly in the five
language communities that we are focusing on, such an introspection
exercise was not done systematically before and secondly a mandatory
imposition may not be productive either for the Community or for CIS-A2K.
We do not want it to end-up becoming a task to be ticked against. Our
effort is to train the community to systematically introspect, which will
go a long way in strengthening the Indian language Wikipedias and the
associated communities. For instance, we have a beginning with Telugu
Wikimedia community. See this [2].


Best,
Vishnu

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluation
[2]
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82-2013_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Community User Group recognized

2013-11-25 Thread Vishnu T
Congratulations! Look forward to seeing this WSCUG grow and thrive!!

Vishnu


On 24 November 2013 17:24, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Wikisource Community
 User Group has been recognized as the 7th user group of our movement.

 The group aims *to support the Wikisource community in international
 communication tasks, outreach to external groups, coordination of software
 tools development, and facilitate fundraising according to its member
 needs.*

 You can learn more about the group and how to join at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_User_Group

 The Affiliations Committee resolution is at

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikisource_Community_User_Group_%E2%80%93_November_2013
 .
 The group has already signed the user group agreement, their first round of
 recognition runs until 31 November 2014.

 Please join me in welcoming them and wishing them luck.

 Best regards,
 Bence Damokos
 Chair, Affiliations Committee

 P.S. The Affiliations Committee is still accepting membership applications
 at

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Call_for_Candidates_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA for people with poor eyesight

2014-08-27 Thread Vishnu T
Hi,

I thought I should acknowledge that this is a problem not just with people
with poor eye sight but also when using a low resolutulion screen.
In most of the outreach sessions done in non-metros in India, I have come
across people (the ones with good eye sight) face this problem more, as the
monitors they use are not great.  It would be helpful if good alternatives
could be worked upon.

Best,
Vishnu


On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote:
 Hola la todos.

 I'm being curios how the blind or just people with quite poor eyesight
are supposed to join Wiki(m|p)edia.

 Fortunately though my own eyesight isn't what you call perfect, low
myopia gives me no obstacles to use computer without spectacles. But
unfortunately not every human being can boast not having such problems.

 And I'm sure some of them could be potential wikimedians.

 But when I e.g. want to proceed with registration I've got to fill a
field with what CAPTCHA says (and except for registration there are also
other cases when it's  shown  for nonautoconfirmed guys). But assume you
don't see it well — how on Earth are you to pass it then? It's not uncommon
to see audio version on many sites. But we have it not.

 On Wikidata there is a link to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Captcha which actually acknowledges
the problem, there is similar page on Meta, I believe there are some more
like this but the solution to contact siteadmins doesn't seem too good for
me - user at least needs to reveal his email publicly or contact a sysop
using some external to wikipages way. Not all people'd like to do it.
Enwiki provides with a link to a tool https://accounts.wmflabs.org/ but
still you need to give your email to somebody.

 But on the other hand even such a solution is better than nothing. But
it's local ones in perhaps dozen or two wikis while there are over 700 of
them.

 So what's the current status of dealing with the problem? Is someone
working on audio CAPTCHAs? Or perhaps there are some ideas how to make
other passages for such cases?

 Spambots do exist anyway but it's sad if some potential users are being
stopped from joining us this way.

 Yours,
 Base
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[Wikimedia-l] Good Bye as CIS-A2K Program Director

2015-04-30 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Wikimedians,

This is my last day as the CIS-A2K Program Director.

The last 2 years and 3 months have been immensely exciting with tons of
learning and work!

I have loved meeting many Wikimedians, face to face, across the length and
breadth of India. The interactions I had with many of the Wikimedians in
India have been immensely useful to my learning.

The diversity of our community and the Wikimedia projects in India is so
rich and intricate - I wish I could map out my entire set of impressions,
to only give a slight glimpse of it!!

Signing off as the Program Director for now. See you on-wiki, here on the
lists and in real life whenever our paths cross.

A quick update: The next A2K Program Director selection is under process
and hopefully we should all be able to welcome the new incumbent in June,
2015. Until then the A2K team is being internally monitored by CIS
leadership.

Best wishes,
Vishnu
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