Hi,
I appreciate the wise decision from Indian Wikipedia community to opt out
of Wikimania bid until next few years.
Even Wikiconference India need not be an annual event considering the
amount of human and financial resources spent on it. What we need is
strengthening local communities in each
Not of my business what you do in India, but here is my 2 cents.
I think that a nacional Conference for India is a HUGE job (Comming for a
country that is equaly huge, I can imagine the several logistic problems to
deslocate people from one city to another).
So my suggestion is to make several
Since we have not one, but two bids from India, I think that is important
to be announced here (I would rather prefer if all of you could work
together in a single bid, but if is not possible, at least list both under
the right section in the page)
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*Béria Lima*
http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925
hi,
If I understand it correctly, the Mumbai bid has been left as a
placeholder bid from India. If such a placeholder bid is not needed,
we'd like to initiate discussions on the Mumbai list on the status of
our bid and make the appropriate announcement on the Mumbai
community's decision on the
I strongly concur with the most of the thoughts of Ashwin below.
The need of the hour is the build the strong Indian Wikipedias and
Wiki-communities within India.
IMHO, We are too early to host a Wikimania in India. While we had a
successful Wikiconference Mumbai, I think we all agree that we
+1 Ashwin.
As far as I know none of the Wiki communities of India (either language or
city) are in a stage to host an international conference. For time being
let us concentrate on building communities and let us gain confidence by
doing some good regional and language specific conferences.
Just a small suggestion/food for thought: Mostly in events like Wikimania
or others that bring together content experts, the organizing bit is
outsourced to experienced event managers who work in collaboration and
understand the needs of the community. I think we should consider getting
someone
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:18, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
the organizing bit is outsourced to experienced event managers
Not in totality. What can be outsourced are things like food / hotels /
logistics etc.
Its *WIKIPEDIANS* who have to do a whole lot of things from scholarships to
+1 with Logic and I don't think India needs to host an international event,
a more structured community building exercise from foundation, chapter,
existing Wikipedians is going on and it will take some time for a proper
community. Putting a bid and conducting an event physically are things of 2
