Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Some information for Bangalore Mirror

2010-04-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
" Bangapedian Tinu Cherian" Nice .. Nice .. :) Arun and Nadig are travelling that is why they are not able to reply. He checks mails often. So hopefully he will reply soon. - TinuCherian On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think someone sh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Some information for Bangalore Mirror

2010-04-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Arun generally watches this list, but is travelling right now. I'm sending a twitter DM to him right away. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Some information for Bangalore Mirror

2010-04-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I think someone should notify Arun by text or on Twitter, I'll send him one, I don't think he checks this too often. Regards, Srikanth On 15 April 2010 10:11, Bishakha Datta wrote: > FYI > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Renuka Phadnis > Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM > S

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Some information for Bangalore Mirror

2010-04-14 Thread Bishakha Datta
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Renuka Phadnis Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM Subject: Some information for Bangalore Mirror To: arunra...@gmail.com, hpna...@gmail.com, bishakhada...@gmail.com Cc: Renuka Phadnis Dear All I am Renuka Phadnis from the Bangalore Mirror in B

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Ravishankar
Srikanth, Thanks for the understanding. An ideal and desirable state will be that the WMF, Local chapters and Local Wiki communities all co-exist with autonomy and facilitate each other's function rather than routing everything through one or another. Regards, Ravi On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:04

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Ravi, META was just a suggestion. Local wikis are fine too. Regards, Srikanth On 14 April 2010 20:20, Ravishankar wrote: > Srikanth, > > We have selected such spokespersons through a vote in Tamil Wikipedia > itself. (similar to sysop voting process). Since Tamil Wiki is a close knit > community

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Ravishankar
Srikanth, We have selected such spokespersons through a vote in Tamil Wikipedia itself. (similar to sysop voting process). Since Tamil Wiki is a close knit community, we proposed around 12 names and all were elected unanimously. After having this team of 12, we form subgroups for various purposes

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Jyothis, a poll , or something like an RfA.. You stand, we elect, and we vote on someone from each indian language to represent that particular wiki [ALL, not just Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikibooks, etc.] in India, to Indian newspapers. Regards, On 14 April 2010 15:26, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Bishakha, The error was made by the copyeditor @DNA without the knowledge of the reporter. Btw this underlines the need for more outreach. There is still people who doesnt know Wikipedia is an encyclopedia ;) Jokes apart, the reporter has promised to carry a correction on this on a n

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
poll? for what? Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press sleep completion date

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

2010-04-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Ravi, Sorry, I guess you were correct. Jyothis, that is a good point, maybe we should hold a poll on Meta? On 14 April 2010 10:50, Bishakha Datta wrote: > Seems worthwhile to do both these - the most accurate bits in all the > recent reports are from the Foundation's press release, which I forwa