Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
+1 Abhilash On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Abhilash wrote: > Srikanth > > With all respect, let me ask, what are we trying to do here. To change the > so called "Indian Students mentality" or trying to spur the growth of > Wikipedia in India? > > This is getting too personal and creating a w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Abhilash
Srikanth With all respect, let me ask, what are we trying to do here. To change the so called "Indian Students mentality" or trying to spur the growth of Wikipedia in India? This is getting too personal and creating a wedge between one of the most well known knowledge communities in the worl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Topics for my talk @wikiconference India

2011-11-15 Thread Barry Newstead
Thanks for the ideas for the talk folks. I'll try my best to cover the topics you suggest and hope we can have a good discussion throughout the three day conference. Thanks for the warm welcome. As always, I'm excited to be visiting...and seeing you all. Best, Barry On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:30 P

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
Hey Srikanth, This is exactly what I meant about constructive approach. No my profs don't come to me house. They fail me. I understand that this is a problem in the mentality of Indian students. But you either have two options, decide to help anyway or crib about how the mentality of students need

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 23:11, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay wrote: > The Indian community however, still expects that students will come to > them for help and they shall help. I never got an answer for the question "Does your college profs come to your home and help you in doing the assignments?". I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Ram Shankar Yadav
+1 Debanjan! On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay < debast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Let me introduce myself first. I too am a CA in fact a second gen one. I > initially decided not to reply to this mail stream at all as there is > nothing but a blame game going on.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
Hey all, Let me introduce myself first. I too am a CA in fact a second gen one. I initially decided not to reply to this mail stream at all as there is nothing but a blame game going on. But after all the personal attacks, I've decided to be on the front-line along with my CA family. Ok, firstly,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:08, Ram Shankar Yadav wrote: > *This is exactly the kind of cluelessness i am referring to. The > [[WP:COMPETENCE]] exists exactly for this purpose - we dont want "kids", > who will "mess up" by "drawing mangoes and bananas" here. We want atleast > semi competent, inter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Language wikipedia Statistics – 2011 September

2011-11-15 Thread Harish
ಇದನ್ನ ನೋಡಿದೀರಾ? http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics-2011-september/ ನನ್ನ ಅನುಭವದ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ no. of edits ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಆಗಿದೆ.. ಆದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೇ ಲೇಖನಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.. 2011/11/12 Naveen Francis > Thanks Shiju for putting this together !!! > > Waiting for more s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-15 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Hisham, There has been much discussion on this already, but this does sound like some *serious* development to someone like me who has been a long time volunteer from India. And perhaps to several other long time contributors from here too, who seem to be staying away from adding their opinion her

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-15 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Hisham, There has been much discussion on this already, but this does sound like some *serious* development to someone like me who has been a long time volunteer from India. And perhaps to several other long time contributors from here too, who seem to be staying away from adding their opinion her

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The National / UAE : " Eager to preserve language, Indians from Kerala embrace Wikipedia"

2011-11-15 Thread Arjun mangol
Go malayalis!!! Proud to be one ;) On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > *The National / UAE : " Eager to preserve language, Indians from Kerala > embrace Wikipedia"* > > http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/south-asia/eager-to-preserve-language-indians-from-kerala-emb

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 49

2011-11-15 Thread Ravishankar
Pratik, //*All I can say is that EVERY KING WAS ONCE A CRYING BABY. Remember the day when you created your account on wikipedia. With all due respect to your edit count at present and your current status at wiki, you were also a KID on wikipedia at that day. A KID who has grown up now and understa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> >> And - to stay with the sandbox metaphor from another thread - if the >> majority of contributors to a university-based program in India can >> reach won't be able to contribute at

[Wikimediaindia-l] The National / UAE : " Eager to preserve language, Indians from Kerala embrace Wikipedia"

2011-11-15 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*The National / UAE : " Eager to preserve language, Indians from Kerala embrace Wikipedia"* http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/south-asia/eager-to-preserve-language-indians-from-kerala-embrace-wikipedia * Eager to preserve their language, Keralites have eagerly responded to Wikipedia's reque

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Arnav Sonara
+1 Also enough of fault finding has been done I guess, lets move to "Solution" now. We ll definitely come back, and we ll come back with a greater impact in which everyone's participation is expected. So henceforth please give solutions rather than finding faults. Sincerely, A Wikipedian Campus

[Wikimediaindia-l] " WikiProject India " on English Wikipedia featured on the latest Signpost

2011-11-15 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi, For those who haven't noticed yet, " WikiProject India" on English Wikipedia is featured on the latest Signpost and also interviews two active contributors RegentsPark and Ashlin ( Ashwin) . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-14/WikiProject_report Started in J

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > And - to stay with the sandbox metaphor from another thread - if the > majority of contributors to a university-based program in India can > reach won't be able to contribute at an acceptable quality in WP > proper, then perhaps it's also tim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Abhilash
+1 From one another of those silent spectator or quiet one.. :) A pilot program is undertaken to always test the situation and gauge how it would deliver in a real life situation. That is exactly why it is known as a pilot or a UAT or a test. With due respect to others in the thread, whoever

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Moksh Juneja
+1 On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:52, Hisham wrote: > Hi Folks > > I'm deliberately opening a new mail chain on this. This is at the risk of > me being told off for doing so - but I believe that email protocol is one > thing - but communication philosophy is (arguably) even more critical. > > I (an