Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Gautam John
So I read it and then re-read it and for the most part, the journey has been well captured. At least for the period in time from when I have been associated with this wonderful community. There is something that struck me though. Now that the journey and the story has been captured in the written

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
: Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles So I read it and then re-read it and for the most part, the journey has been well

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Gautam John
On 9 October 2011 15:36, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: It's difficult for anything to be *the* back story of the movement, much less this one. I agree Sundar. What I meant was that this particular narrative is now the only one committed to paper (as it were) and will be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
- Original Message - From: Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org To: BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com; Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: I agree Sundar. What I meant was that this particular narrative is now the only one committed to paper (as it were) and will be crawled and indexed and searched and read and referenced and since it is the only

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Gautam John
On 9 October 2011 21:57, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: I think Tory did a great job and had her finger on the pulse I mostly agree with you, Bishakha. So I think one good way forward in general - and this doesn't hold only for wikipedia, but for history making in general - is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Gautam John
On 9 October 2011 23:43, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: And I think part of it is how we choose to see it and who/what we choose to hear - if I choose to see Tory's piece as dominant because it was commissioned by the Foundation, then that determines how much power I give it.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 23:23, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 9 October 2011 21:57, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: I think Tory did a great job and had her finger on the pulse I mostly agree with you, Bishakha. Agree, It was a quite an elaborate one. So I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-08 Thread Hisham
Hi Folks, A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to travel to India and listen and learn and write about the movement in India. The objective was to harvest experiences and learnings and to have an open discussion around what we could all do to further the movement. This isn't in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-08 Thread Pundit Commentator
] Presenting The India Chronicles Hi Folks, A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to travel to India and listen and learn and write about the movement in India. The objective was to harvest experiences and learnings and to have an open discussion around what we could all do to further

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-08 Thread Gautam John
Dear Hisham: Thanks for posting this to the list. Nice to see the story being told. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 9 October 2011 02:58, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to