[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: The Sunday meet-up
Please do attend the Hyderabad meet up if you are in the city on 30th! -- Forwarded message -- From: Tausif Rahmathullah s.taus...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM Subject: The Sunday meet-up To: wikimedia-in-hyd wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org Folks, A mild reminder of the our *meet-up* on *Sunday 30th September*. Amidst a few confusions about postponing and things, we have all agreed upon moving forward with the event without any change. Incidentally, our meet-up has been mention in The Hindu and The Times of India. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece *Where* LaMakaan, In lane Adjacent to CBay, Opposite GVKOne Road No 1, Banjara Hills Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh *When* Sunday 30th September,2012 11 AM to 1 PM For any info, you can call Tausif at 9885474156 Abhijit at 9866898311 See you all this Sunday! Regards, *Tausif* -- Noopur Raval ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad
Odia Wikipedians meeting up in Hyderabad tomorrow (29th). This news has also been covered by The Hindu and TOI today. Do come if you are around :) -- Forwarded message -- From: swetapadma d. satpathy swetapadm...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi All, I am happy to inform you that the 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad is being scheduled on 29th October,12 at 4PM in Lamakaan, Banjara Hill. The objective of the workshop is to learn and know more about Odia Wikipedia. Till now there are 3000 Odia articles available in Odia Wikipedia. In a view to consolidate the knowledge and in depth experience of participants /fellow wikipedians through discussion and live demonstration of searching, writing and editing an article in Odia language, the workshop has been planned. This shall definitely encourage participants to create and develop articles for Odia wikipedia.This is an open event for all who can read and write Odia. Best Wishes, Swetapadma Satpathy ___ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Noopur Raval ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM
Several communities which function online use the mailing list as the primary source of communication and coordination. Ideally, the Wiki talk/coordination pages could/should be used for such activities but the downside is that a person has to be subscribed to individual page updates to be able to know that some discrete activity has happened and this is feasible for only expert wiki contributors and I am not sure if we are yet at that ideal level of expertise. Isn't English Wikipedia the most sophisticated and evolved one? Hint: Watch list. If someone is not actively following a project, then how is he fit to coordinate it? Further, Wikipedia works on the community model and as you have acknowledged most wikipedians on this list are not averse to such mails. There is also a delete option in our email clients which allow us to delete mails which we do not want to read. I hope you can appreciate this and take a decision which is best suited for your interests. I wouldn't have brought up this conversation if this was just a spam issue. I simply felt that coordinating an on-wiki task through mailing list is not a best practice. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM
I'm not much aware of how the project in Tamil Wikipedia functions. Well, INCOTM on en.wiki is something huge. The reason I sent out this mail on this mailing list (after getting approval from Ashwin Baindur) was to inform the larger community. I feel sad to repeat the same thing again and again. Also, my method of working is different from yours. I feel that I should not just handover, but ask everyone if they wish to apply for the post. If yes, let the people who are participating in the COTM's vote for them. This is how I work and will continue to work in the future, seeking everyone's opinion. This is not how I work or you work. It is about how a wiki should work. I quoted my experience to provide a context for my mail. Aren't there 100s of projects / elections running in En Wiki? Does everyone use mailing lists? I could have easily called up any of my friends and they would have agreed. But someone might be interested as well and would feel bad later on not even being asked whether he/she wants to apply. I am sorry that you didn't get the point yet. Where is the point of feeling bad when you can do it on-wiki transparently and everyone can see it? Nomination is a needless procedure but still it is ok if you wanted to follow a procedure. This is a regular Wikipedia activity which is best managed within talk pages and project noticeboards. This isn't a photo walk or a Wiki workshop to hope if more people can join us through mailing lists. Even if you go by that logic, if every regional Wikipedia starts mailing this list for coordinating on wiki tasks, then it will be total mess. Look, I'm short of time and sending on this list gives me no pleasure. There was a reason and a motive behind this, which I and other members have been repeatedly telling you. May be if I start sending mails about everyday activities in Tamil Wikipedia, then you will understand the issue. There are many Tamils here who are not in Tamil Wikipedia. So, may be we too will have a good chance to find good volunteers :) But we are discussing what should be on this list and what should not. Is discussing that beyond the scope of this list :) I leave this conversation, peacefully. Ditto :) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
