Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-21 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 17:14, Achal Prabhala wrote: > > As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you > normally adopt towards moderation? > This is not a primer, but one thing I changed today was increasing message size from 40 KB to 240 KB. Ideally mailing lists dont en

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-14 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hi Jyothis, On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Jyothis Edathoot wrote: > Hari, > > Couldnt help asking, but could you please point out whom are you referring > as trolls here and who attacked you (or any member of EC) personally? As far > as I see this, community members raised multiple concerns h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
bject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l > >Sundar, > > >Having a house of representative system will help managing things better. You >are looking a great number of projects and people - if everything goes well - >in >the general body, and it wou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-14 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
Sundar, Having a house of representative system will help managing things better. You are looking a great number of projects and people - if everything goes well - in the general body, and it would be absolutely chaotic when it comes to discussions. 99% you will not see most people for doing somet

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
lly admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Jyothis Edathoot >To: Wikimedia India list >Sent: Sun, February 13, 2011 11:59:49 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l > >Achal, > > >Good po

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
>>I think Bala misread that mail. Somebody asked me to share any Idea which chapter can run, I said many images originated from India deleted in commons because there is no proper source or license for many images. And if we've proper agreement with any museum or art gallery (most of them are under

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread praveenp
Hi, On Monday 14 February 2011 09:23 AM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Hari, > > As the situation has worsened to the levels that EC is now been > accused of being here for swindling money ("auctioning off > membership") and selective moderation in the mailing list (unfairly in > both counts IMO), p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Gautam John
Hello Everyone: I'm using Bala's email because I think he's done a great job of summarizing the various issues on this thread. > 1) Why was the election held without informing others of the agenda (the EC > answered that it was a required step to formalise the organisation per > registration rule

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Hari, As the situation has worsened to the levels that EC is now been accused of being here for swindling money ("auctioning off membership") and selective moderation in the mailing list (unfairly in both counts IMO), please be blunt and do clear the air without niceties. The basic questions raise

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As someone who is interested in how India and its projects are doing, the India mailing list is a treasure to me. I am afraid that the current type of bickering will have people move away, first from the mailing list and potentially away from our projects. The objective of both this list and t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Shiju Alex
> > *Aniruth said: * >>> >>> > At this point of time, *we don't feel the need for having more list > administrators*, however list subscribers who are interested in keeping a > check on the spam filter as moderators can write an email to either list > admins. > This type of reply is not expected

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Theo10011
Hi Jyothis I believe Sudhir Ponappa for one sounded aggressive, designation of a troll is not that far-fetched. You can check with Casey as a neutral observer if that comment was worth moderation or not. I would also include the post on the other thread by praveenp which is responsible for this th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread praveenp
On Monday 14 February 2011 02:03 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: It is probably unfair to say that the chapter hasn't communicated much on time in just the last one month right after it has got registered legally, when the information that flowed right from the time the EC was formed (by you) ha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
Hari, Couldnt help asking, but could you please point out whom are you referring as trolls here and who attacked you (or any member of EC) personally? As far as I see this, community members raised multiple concerns here and other threads about transparency in EC's actions and we, as community mem

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Dear Achal, The below email seems to be trying to address too many things. I'll try to answer some of those. I appreciate your continued interest in the Chapter activity, considering that you were the one who started this out by putting together the initial team. It is probably unfair to say that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
Achal, Good points. Thank you. To have additional mods, it is fairly a simple process to add them in mailman. I would suggest that atleast as a start, we can ask people here to nominate themselves for the positions and we can pick two. Would be great if they are already familiar with the work. *P

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Achal Prabhala
Couldn't agree more. I think that there is/ has been a lot of needless noise. It's not productive to cast insinuations against the chapter or foundation (or community for that matter) as a whole. I do think, however, that communication from the chapter regarding the last set of meetings (and ch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
spelling mistake :- > There were 2-3 people who were in the same boat. So one was on the > road 20 days in a month, some people like traveling and others do not. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 23:28, Sudhir Ponappa wrote: > *Translation:* Can all the ordinary members of this list please keep out of > my business? I would prefer to continue censoring this list with my best > friend HPN. After all, I am the EC of the India chapter and I have an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Theo10011
I have no idea what's been happening lately on the mailing list. Please keep it civil, this is getting rude and inappropriate for a national list. It would be archived and viewed by many others, please do bear that in mind. User:Theo10011 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Casey Brown wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Sudhir Ponappa wrote: > Hello everybody. I am a Wikipedian who is very interested in translation. > I am helping with English to Kannada, but I am also learning chapter > language. What is this? For eg. Thank you for helping the thread by providing an example of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Sudhir Ponappa
Hello everybody. I am a Wikipedian who is very interested in translation. I am helping with English to Kannada, but I am also learning chapter language. What is this? For eg. *Anirudh:* At this point of time, we don't feel the need for having more list administrators, however list subscribers w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread praveenp
My last message has only 112 kb even with that embedded image. A 112 kb message is not bulky in these days. Some people told me that mail man will not block any message if there is nothing to load from outside. I remember once I used "donate to wikipedia" image in all my message, but never get

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hi Achal, On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote: > > As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you > normally adopt towards moderation? > Thank you for the email. You can review the Wikimedia mailing lists administration page for information about the rol

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-11 Thread Delphine Ménard
HI Achal, On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote: > Dear Hari and Anirudh, > > As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you > normally adopt towards moderation? > > Do you only block obvious spam or other messages, and if so on what basis? > > I am naturall

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-11 Thread Achal Prabhala
Dear Hari and Anirudh, As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you normally adopt towards moderation? Do you only block obvious spam or other messages, and if so on what basis? I am naturally curious since a message from Praveen that you only just released seems to hav