Heya, I think it is time to make a clear distinction between FOSS and
Wikipedia out here. Wikipedia is NOT FOSS and FOSS is NOT Wikipedia.
Only the basic ideology is the same, nothing else. Several of us,
including Me, Pradeep have been victims of FOSS activism, both on the
list and off the list.
Hi all,
Off late the traffic to India list has gone up much more than what it was
before (already a highly active list!). During the last couple of months,
we moderators have got requests from members that the list is becoming
pointless due to the volume of mails and quality of threads. I
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com
wrote:
list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and
will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
From: anivar.arav...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John
Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating them.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
(handheld)
On Jan 4, 2012 2:16 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
--
From:
I was not attacking anyone, with reference to the link forwarded, pointing to
this statement:
I think that almost any argument, on any topic, which has premises
beginning with Jimbo said... is a pretty weak argument. Surely the
merits of the proposal should be primary, not what I happen to
With due respect to Jimmy Wales, Free Knowledge may run on Free
Software but doesn't need to be contributed using Free Software. I
remember the time when some FOSS activists/extremists didn't like me
editing Wikipedia because I use Windows and Opera, neither of which
are FOSS.
--
Regards,
hi,
My only contribution to this shall be this. I am irritated at a PoV
being pushed on the list sometimes that FOSS is the best way of doing
things. People who edit Wikipedia comes from various backgrounds and
FOSS advocates on this list have pushed me towards Microsoft products
and I've found
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From: Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India:
Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012
To: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
Cc: Mailing list for
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
It was not. Instead of articulating same point again, i pointed the
link. It does not matter even if it someone else's article .
Please respond to it that ,
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 15:14, Pradeep Mohandas
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
Do any other Wikipedia lists have such guidelines which we can 'get
inspired' by?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Guidelines has some related points which
can be used by us too. Lets be inspiration for
Hi friends,
We will have our IRC meetup on Jan 7, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_07,2012
We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
meetup.
On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India)
Thanks,
Naveen
Would have been good to mention that when you posted the link.
I have said what I have to, I will not be commenting on this thread any
further. IMHO This subject has been debated enough on this list in the last few
months, we surely have more positive stuff to discuss.
From:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Would have been good to mention that when you posted the link.
I am not much aware about such strange rules in English wikipedia :-)
Anivar
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You do not provide only references, you write the relevant paragraph
that you are referencing. We did not think that we should write that
down.
The originator of this thread has informed me that he has left the
list. Agree with Pranav, that we have much better things to do than
discuss this. If
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
You do not provide only references, you write the relevant paragraph
that you are referencing. We did not think that we should write that
down.
The whole article is relevant in the context of this thread, so why
I think people need to increase their tolerance level for what is not bad
faith or unencyclopedic on this list. It seems that just mentioning FOSS is
enough to trigger off rejoinders.
See WP:IDONTLIKEIT
This list exists to discuss matters related to Wikimedia community at
large. Occasionally it
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
So I request that we may all simmer down a bit. If this continues then I
would like to join them since I cant beat them. This I shall do by getting
upset about the abhorrent word *baingan.
*I dont like the taste of
Hi All,
We are Celebrating WikiMedia 11th anniversary WikiMedia India Chapter 1st
Anniversary in Bangalore on 15th January !
Please forward to concerned people. All those in Bangalore, please join
along with all your friends.
--
Thanks Regards,
A.Radha Krishna
On behalf of Bangalore SIG
For details registration, please visit
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore41
Best Regards,
RadhaKrishna
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:29 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally
radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We are Celebrating WikiMedia 11th anniversary WikiMedia
Gerard Meijssen blogged about Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/01/wikipedia-takes-ahmedabad.html
anirudh
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
Whoops! Link to category:
Some more pointers
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l#Rules
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 15:14, Pradeep Mohandas
Dear Indic wikipedians
One of the aspects that was raised during the discussions with almost all
Indic language wiki communities was the need to build existing
communities, motivate existing community members, attract new community
members by increasing awareness of projects and communities, and
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 15:14, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com
wrote:
hi,
Do any other Wikipedia lists have such guidelines which we can 'get
inspired' by?
Naveen typically I'm invited for dinner at this time not able to make it
on Saturday yet again. The day/timing sucks.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi friends,
We
The day/timing sucks.
+1
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi friends,
We will have our IRC meetup on Jan 7, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm
I think Srikanth's list is quite an acceptable list of guidelines.
A list exists for the purpose of discussion. Theoretically every Wikipedian
subscribed to this list can respond to every thread and start a thread of
their own everyday. Should this happen, our discussions would rise in
magnitude
hi,
I think it is broad enough in its current form to serve as a begining.
Let's share it here and request comments from the list and other
administrators before finalising?
Pradeep
User:Prad2609
On 4 January 2012 19:45, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Srikanth's list
Hi,
Another guidelines page here: http://www.plug.org.in/mailing-list
And (supposed to be) the master of them all is here:
http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
I am afraid that these are from the FOSS world and with FOSS context.
Take it or leave it.
-Sudhanwa
please send a separate mail as an invitation for the event with full
details like place, time, agenda.
Will be useful to send to other lists in banglore.
thanks.
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Thank you, Sudhanwa, for this detailed and inspiring report. As you say,
it sounds like very good value for the time and money invested. I hope the
community makes the most of this by effectively following up with those 250
interested folks.
I have taken the liberty of sharing the heartwarming
*Ahmedabad Mirror : Amdavadis explore city through their lens*
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=articlesectid=3contentid=2012010420120104023959405831298a3
Epaper :
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=AMIRshowST=truelogin=defaultpub=MMEnter=trueSkin=MIRRORNEW
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