Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Can someone clarify on how Wikimedia projects will benefit here? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-09 Thread Béria Lima
Asaf, GAC isn't for Participation grants, I don't know why you throwing that in the people who disagree. And you said yourself you needed to consult with WMIN, they are telling a big NO, why you don't refuse the grant? _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-09 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Asaf, GAC isn't for Participation grants, I don't know why you throwing that in the people who disagree. Yes, Béria, and I have acknowledged this not once but *twice* in the response that first mentioned the GAC. I was

[Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-08 Thread Ravishankar
Hey, Do not donate to Wikipedia because your money will go for insane grants like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:AbhiSuryawanshi/NASA_LARSS_program I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such donation. Ravi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-08 Thread John Vandenberg
I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia

2012-07-08 Thread Béria Lima
*John:* Is a presentation not an internship for what I read. *Gautan*: The Grants team in this case is Asaf only. The GAC didn't review participation grants. *Ravishankar*: If you want to make your concern visible, post on Wikimedia mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org _ *Béria Lima*

[Wikimediaindia-l] Do you donate to Wikipedia/ Wikimedia?

2011-03-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi, I am working with a journo on a news article related to Wikimedia Fundraising and donations from India. Hope at least some of you already know that India in the top 6 donor countries to the Wikimedia Foundation. (