Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Consultants on WMF Staff page

2011-12-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is no reason why people from the India staff should not be on the staff and contractors page. As it is only people living in the USA are staff everybody else is a contractor. Thanks, Gerard On 10 December 2011 05:27, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec

[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Gujarati

2011-12-10 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with Dhaval Vyas from Gujarati wikipedia. Dhaval has shared his editing experiences, his vision about Gujarati wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is available here:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Gujarati

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Ermm, Theo, my Google Mail shows them up as separate. Infact any mail service or client would. The title thread itself is different. I don't want to derail the topic. Nice work Shiju, but why did you speak only to one person? Lack of participants? Noone willing to talk to you? On 10/12/2011,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

2011-12-10 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of reading wikipedia. I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hisham, I don't understand why the Executive Committee offer to be informed 48 HOURS in advance of the community. Isn't Wikipedia a community based system? If the chapter or trust is everything then what is the community sitting here to do? I know I sound rude, but I fail to understand why some

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
There isn't a lack of easyness. Some people are just scared away by so called veteran editors. On 10/12/2011, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic

[Wikimediaindia-l] A gentle reminder for 40th Bangalore Wikipedia Meetup

2011-12-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Dear All, After attending WikiConferenceIndia 2011http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011, Mumbai Hackathon 2011 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 and couple of other Wiki Academies/meetups wikipedians of Bangalore Wiki Community are gathering today at CIS,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

2011-12-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks Shiju for the mail. I am trying to connect my Engineering College for organizing a Kannada Wiki Academy, but a Kannada Wikimedian should volunteer, And after taking part in the Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering Collegehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_CollegeI could see

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A gentle reminder for 40th Bangalore Wikipedia Meetup

2011-12-10 Thread Shrinivasan T
hi. thanks for the info. please avoid html mails and signatures as most of the other tech mailing lists don't accept it. it is hard to forward your emails to other tech groups. please send plain text mails. give links as plain url. thanks. On 11 Dec 2011 07:31, Subhashish Panigrahi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Gujarati

2011-12-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
A small suggestion: if you can keep the subject line as: * Hindi: Sharing insights...* * * format then from the first word gives idea about the language. Best Subha On 10 December 2011 21:57, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Srikanth R, Please allow me to share my view. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hisham, I don't understand why the Executive Committee offer to be informed 48 HOURS in advance of the community. Isn't Wikipedia a community based

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thank you for your explanation for the explanation Arjuna, but I still have a question. What feedback are you looking for? On 11/12/2011, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Srikanth R, Please allow me to share my view. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your explanation for the explanation Arjuna, but I still have a question. What feedback are you looking for? If the proposed public communication were to contain specific role for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 23:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hisham, I don't understand why the Executive Committee offer to be informed 48 HOURS in advance of the community. Isn't Wikipedia a community based system? If the chapter or trust is everything then what is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Logic, thanks for your explanation. I asked th question only after talking to both Pradeep and more importantly Bala at our meetup yesterday. Had they not pointed out, I wouldn't've bothered asking. On 11/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 23:39,