Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-03 Thread Quim Gil
ents: the motivation of these groups is mediawiki.org and therefore good alignment and coordination within the MediaWiki community is what matters most. I have no doubt that strong MediaWiki Groups will contribute to the strength of the Wikimedia community and their related chapters. -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-03 Thread Quim Gil
xico is another example of a proposal pushed entirely by volunteers with no connection to the WMF. In their case Wikimedia Mexico explicitly supports the creation of the group. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-04 Thread Quim Gil
you having successful hackathons adding up to the Wikimedia & MediaWiki penetration in India. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_quarter_17 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-04 Thread Quim Gil
define an Indian specific type of SIG? But going back to MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad, I hope we get to an agreement sooner than later so Harsh and other MediaWiki promoters in India get out of this uncomfortable position and focus on their local activities. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-04 Thread Quim Gil
o discuss Wikimedia User Groups or MediaWiki Groups as such then the right place to do it is in their discussion pages or at wikimedia-l / wikitech-l. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _

[Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki / User Groups in India (was Re: Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group v Ahmedabad)

2013-01-07 Thread Quim Gil
benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software." For doing that we are using the tools created by the Wikimedia community: Wikimedia user groups, which happen to share the basic idea with open source user groups - which is what we are really after with the