[Wikimediaindia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

2016-11-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Friends, TL; DR After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out in volunteer capacity on my talk page. —— I was about

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1

2016-11-10 Thread Soni
As someone who has seen firsthand how much effort went into WikiConference India 2016, I will ask any communities planning for a Wikimania bid to first conduct a WikiConference India first. There is a massive effort required for conducting even a WCI size event, and the core organisers faced

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

2016-11-10 Thread ansuman
Hey Subhashish, I can't thank you enough personally for all the work you have been doing for the Wikimedia movement and especially for the Odia language. Thank you for being supportive even if I have not been supportive to you because of whatever maybe the reason! :/ My best wishes with you for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1194, Issue 1

2016-11-10 Thread satdeepgill
Hi, I also thought that we should organize Wikimania in India but after organizing WCI i see that Indian community is not yet ready to even organize an annual WCI. It took one year to organize WCI 2016 and the work has not finished yet 3 months after the conference. It will take another 2