Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-09-03 Thread Dr. Abhijeet Safai
Dear All, Greetings! I do not understand much about money but I know that accountability of the money is very important because money is never only money. People's feelings are associated with it. Thank you. -- *Dr. Abhijeet Safai* *Certified Base SAS Programmer* *SAS Certified Clinical Trials

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-31 Thread Ritwik Agarwal
If I am allowed to add my suggestions here, I saw many wiki talk articles which blatantly points out that some view points are explicitly not mentioned in wiki information because the editors simply don't want it to include making the open source platform itself to be biased.Many people around me

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-19 Thread Joseph Seddon
Hey Abhinav! As promised I wanted to respond to the list this week. The team has been doing a number of things over the last three weeks to try and take on board the feedback, the activity on social media and within the news. The moment concerns were raised on this list about safety I reached

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-16 Thread Joseph Seddon
Hey Abhinav I'm really sorry I haven't responded on list. Both I and the team have been collecting and receiving lots of feedback from here, on social media, from donors, along with directly to myself. Based on all that feedback I know the team has made a number of changes and I should have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-16 Thread Abhinav srivastava
Dear WMF Functionaries, There is a lot of negativity happening around us in India. Be it print, digital or social media. Society is asking a lot many questions and safety remains a very important concern at the moment. Concerns were also raised during the fundraising test but it seems WMF denied

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-03 Thread Nitesh Gill
+1 and I agree with others. I am working on Wikipedia from last five years and during my journey I just felt we are here for each other. I will go through with Bodhi's point that we are facing these difficult times due to COVID-19 and cases are increasing day by day in India, as all know. It's

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
+1 to everything that others said. We are getting negative reactions from readers everywhere. No doubt, it's a bad design with a very unacceptable tone to ask for money. In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, it's a very bad timing too. Being active on non-Wikipedia projects, this donation campaign

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-03 Thread Suyash Dwivedi
+1Balaji Regards, Er. Suyash Dwivedi (pronouns - he/his/him) (U:Suyash.dwivedi) suyash@gmail.com IST (Indian Standard Time) UTC+5:30 --Sent from my mobile device On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 11:45 PM balaji wrote: > Mostly of people asked of if the donation notice was geninue or scam. > Since they

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-03 Thread balaji
Mostly of people asked of if the donation notice was geninue or scam. Since they know I am closely associated with wikipedia movement they asked me. Sudden popup of donation notice seems like a spam or hacking by external agency. Totally uncool. And seeing the count shown I felt like I am being

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-08-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Here is some note by Amit Abhyankar on Facebook. There are similar comments on this post. - I guess most of us have received this message when accessing Wikipedia. While there is nothing wrong in asking for donations, I didn't like the tone of this appeal. The way it says

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-07-28 Thread Joseph Seddon
Hey all, It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our fundraiser in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the community members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure, forwarded tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly