Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Languages question

2013-02-13 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Hello Abhishek, Thanks for your response. I'm quite interested in hearing about earlier debates on this and related lists on the Indian languages question. Glad to know about the renaming of your project! Using the term 'Asian languages' will open up a whole new set of issues. Why not then say

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Languages question

2013-02-13 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Hi Niraj, Thanks for engaging with this difficult question. I think we may have to look at sizeable populations speaking a certain language while deciding how to classify where it is spoken. I was surprised to see your remark that Dravidian languages are spoken in Pakistan. I was not aware of this

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

2013-02-13 Thread Abhiram C
Hi Gaurav, The term Sanskrit is one that was started by the Westerners who found it difficult to pronounce Samskritam/Samskrit. You too could try pronouncing the word Samskritam in English accent which will lead you to Sanskrit. Its better we stick to our basics and call it Samskritam. On Sun,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-13 Thread Tejas jain
Hi All, First, I am not a chapter member. As a member of mailing list I have few suggestions to resolve issue. 1. Authorized person can publish ,Activity list, Expense list, Financial supporters list Maintenance expenditure list on chapter site share the link (Yes, specific link for report.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-13 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Correction: by Dravidian language in Pakistan I suppose you meant Brahui, which has a couple of million speakers. Doesn't appear to be much writing in the language though. We will have to find out more. And one more comment on your suggestion about using 'Indic-Dravidian': do remember that we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia related activities in GNUnify 2013

2013-02-13 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Sudhanwa, Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting mix of titles. We should ensure to record them and put up on CC. As these can be very good source for the Community. All the best with GNUnify and I am very excited to be there. Best, Vishnu On 14 February 2013 02:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-13 Thread Vickram Crishna
I am also not a Chapter member, but for some reason, I am not particularly perturbed about reports, activities and so on. I think Tejas' suggestions are excellent, and made in the positive spirit of building a sense of community amongst Wikimedians in India, be they chapter, foundation, user,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-13 Thread Niranjan Patel
* The Chapter is financially accountable to it's MEMBERS,* Seriously? Chapter is having money which is collected from WMF (Donation drive.) Chapter should be 'financially accountable' to overall community. There are hopes from CIS, as they have decent background. Additionally they have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-13 Thread Sunil Abraham
Dear Abhishek, CIS is not supporting travel expenses for Chapter EC meetings. Nor has CIS provided funding to the Chapter so far from the Wikipedia grant. CIS has provided in-kind support to the Chapter in previous financial years for ex. society registration costs and the costs of their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-13 Thread Niranjan Patel
Dear Sunil, My last mail was delivered after your reply, almost at same time. Sorry for connfusion. *This month, we are reimbursing the Chapter EC travel and related expenses* .*It is only happy coincidence that they were also organising a meeting in Bangalore during those dates.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

2013-02-13 Thread Sunil Abraham
Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 2) The hiring process wasn't nearly as neutral as you are suggesting. From what I know CIS didn't have 1 in 5 vote, it first picked who got selected for the first round to even have a vote, and I am told that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

2013-02-13 Thread Sunil Abraham
Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I am still curious about some of the relationships here. As far as I know achal still serves on your board? because I have a distinct memory of there being some association here. He also still serves on the