Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

2013-01-12 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks Viswa. Just curious, do Malayalam Wiki bureaucrats have rights to remove adminship? Since nobody in Tamil Wiki had the rights, we had to request some Stewards. IIRC, Jyotis came to our help. Are there other rights beyond bureaucrats that anyone feels necessary? - Sundar   That language

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

2013-01-12 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi, Having bureaucrats is not easy, we had a consensus taken by community and don't have any active bureaucrats on gu.wiki but still the application for bureaucrats was rejected by meta. It is definitely necessary to have active local bureaucrat(s), but meta needs to change their rigid

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

2013-01-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was browsing through http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias and found the number of admin users across Indic Wikipedias very low. Hindi has only 4, followed by Bengali and Marathi with 10 and Telugu and

[Wikimediaindia-l] two forthcoming events in educational institutions

2013-01-12 Thread Sowmyan Tirumurti
Dear Friends, We are happy to announce two events this month at educational institutions. AA IIT Kharagpur will be celebrating their SpringFest 2013 from 23rd Jan to 26th Jan. We will partner with them in this event as Knowledge Partners. We will be conducting a Wiki Academy, and a