Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-18 Thread Ravishankar
Sibi, I am boycotting this only in it's current form as a CIS project which exploits volunteer work. If there is a similar community initiative, I will definitely provide my token support. Irrespective of this being CIS led or community led, I have a difference of opinion on the relative

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Rahim, Your first email to this thread did come from your personal email id. However, I do think that you should have stated on the email that you are taking this initiative as a community member and not as an employee of CIS. This is a practice that is common and standard practise among WMF

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is no need to have articles first.. We have added quite a number of members of the National Assemblee of South Africa that do not have any mention in any wikipedia but a red link. With items in Wikidata and associated labels all these people can be found in any Wiki that has WD-search

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Hi Gerard, Thank you. I thought Srikanth R already knew that. Srikanth, my apologies. all this time, I was assuming you knew how Wikidata and Wikidata search results work in Indic Wikipedias. If not, please check this blog post :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I'm too stupid to know all that. Did you know that empty data items get deleted? On 17 May 2014 12:16, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gerard, Thank you. I thought Srikanth R already knew that. Srikanth, my apologies. all this time, I was assuming you knew how Wikidata

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread sibi kanagaraj
Hi , On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:17 AM, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.comwrote: Sibi and Srikanth, Please use Wiki to do discussions. I would only answer there! This habit of doing discussions over Mailing lists is a bad practice. Sorry I never knew using mailing list was a bad

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Ravishankar
Rahim, Thanks for educating the community about bad practices as a CIS employee :) Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Ravi, Please educate me on what a CIS employee should do and what he is not supposed to do. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Rahim, Thanks for educating the community about bad practices as a CIS employee :) Ravi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Ravishankar
Rahim, As a CIS employee, you should learn professional etiquette and be consistent. You advise the community to discuss this project only in META and yet you are trying to reach community members by phone. After I placed my questions in META, you gave me a telephone call to discuss the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Hi Ravi, I ask the same, Who are you to dictate what I should do? And what my community should do? I didnt shout at you, you are shouting at me everytime you remind me that whatever I do is being done as CIS employee, though this whole conversation goes with my personal ID and not CIS's. On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Ravishankar
Rahim, If you are doing this project as a volunteer, why are you documenting it as a CIS proejct? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Indian_Parliamentarian_Label-a-thon I have never dictated on what Telugu or any other community should do. But, I do share my

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-17 Thread Ravishankar
Rahim, Let me decalre this. I am BOYCOTTING to sign up for this labelothon event for the following reasons. * Signing up for this event will only help CIS-A2K undue credit for existing organic communty's work. There has been past evidences for these as seen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-16 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Sibi and Srikanth, Please use Wiki to do discussions. I would only answer there! This habit of doing discussions over Mailing lists is a bad practice. Do, the discussion over the talk page. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:09 AM, sibi kanagaraj civil.si...@gmail.comwrote: Hi , Please find the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon

2014-05-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hi rahim, a few pointers as a Wikidata editor. Please wait till the results are out completely. Wait for a while to ensure that atleast one article, in atleast one language is created before creating a data item. Why is this coming under the A2K? Shouldn't it be a community event? On 14 May