Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention
Arun, While all the noteworthy Wikimedians announced and jury mentions are good, I am very disappointed that some of the very outstanding nominations are left out for unknown reasons. There is no need to limit the number of selections if documentation, learning is the motive. I resisted nominating anyone to save this disappointment for myself and the nominated Wikipedians. First of all, having a jury sounds un-wikipediac for me. This is a kind of hierarchy which is common in award committees but does not belong in Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, we have a jury only in extreme cases for arbitration. In cases where we can have more than one able choice, we have only the community to nominate and recognize all able nominations (Example: sysop elections ). And, when the community is small, many times we assume good faith without voting and revert only if a difference of opinion arises ( Example: Featured Wikipedians in Tamil Wikipedia). In our earlier conversation analogies were drawn to Nobel prize and Jimmy's Global Wikimedian of the year. Jimmy's award is purely personal choice and there can be no controversy for that (Please clarify if that is an official award by WMF). A comparison with Nobel prize doesn't sound good as this is an exercise done by Wikipedians for the Wikipedians. And the whole planning of this year's NWR left much to be desired. If you want to continue doing this every year, please do it without jury and ask each community to send their choices and recognize all of them. Ravi On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the jury for the NWR 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011, thank you all for you active participation and your nominations of contributing Wikimedians for the recognition. We shared the details during Day 3 of the WikiConference India. The updated deck is shared for your reference, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/NWR_2011_and_Jury_mention_V1.0.pdf Let us applaud all the 41 nominationshttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#Nominations. They are fantastic contributors and a great inspiration. We salute their passion and commitment to contribute and develop educational content under a free license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content. We should celebrate everyone of them. I would like to thank the entire Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury personally for their time and efforts toward the NWR 2011 exercise. This is the first year for the NWR 2011 and we have tried our best to make this exercise participative. Next year we hope to do even better. We welcome everyone's inputs to make this even process better next year. The intention of this exercise was to Discover, Document, Recognize and Share the contributions of prolific Wikimedians. As you will appreciate this is an ongoing process. We hope we taken a small step in that direction. Thank you. regards Arun On behalf the NWR 2011 Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention
Thanks for you feedback Srikanth. It was quite a task for the Jury. With multiple Wikimedia projects, nominations from 12 languages, multiple contribution types and gender we had quite a few things to cover and represent in the eventual list. You point is a good one. On large wikipedias/projects and the number of recognitions for them. While we had a few weeks, we did invest in a very well documented process. The Jury was quite diverse as well. Request your suggestions for next year here please - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011/Feedback regards Arun On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Great work!! I know it was a tough job for jury. Getting nominated itself is an award. But i have a small feedback. Keep community awards proportional to size of community. 1 award to English Wikipedia is too low IMHO. Having enough time for nomination is another thing, but am sure we will improve the process from next year given the fact the entire process was done in last minute this year. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention
Vide discussions amongst jury members, userbox has been placed on the award-winner's user page (Bhadani)on English Wikipedia and all nominees from WikiProject India on English Wikipedia have been given a Barnstar of National Merit. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the jury for the NWR 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011, thank you all for you active participation and your nominations of contributing Wikimedians for the recognition. We shared the details during Day 3 of the WikiConference India. The updated deck is shared for your reference, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/NWR_2011_and_Jury_mention_V1.0.pdf Let us applaud all the 41 nominationshttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#Nominations. They are fantastic contributors and a great inspiration. We salute their passion and commitment to contribute and develop educational content under a free license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content. We should celebrate everyone of them. I would like to thank the entire Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury personally for their time and efforts toward the NWR 2011 exercise. This is the first year for the NWR 2011 and we have tried our best to make this exercise participative. Next year we hope to do even better. We welcome everyone's inputs to make this even process better next year. The intention of this exercise was to Discover, Document, Recognize and Share the contributions of prolific Wikimedians. As you will appreciate this is an ongoing process. We hope we taken a small step in that direction. Thank you. regards Arun On behalf the NWR 2011 Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention
can we get a common (approved by chapter) barnstar/medal.userbox that could be place in the award winner's user page. I was talking to one today and he said he would like something solid to show that he indeed get a recognition from the chapter. On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Vide discussions amongst jury members, userbox has been placed on the award-winner's user page (Bhadani)on English Wikipedia and all nominees from WikiProject India on English Wikipedia have been given a Barnstar of National Merit. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the jury for the NWR 2011http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011, thank you all for you active participation and your nominations of contributing Wikimedians for the recognition. We shared the details during Day 3 of the WikiConference India. The updated deck is shared for your reference, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/NWR_2011_and_Jury_mention_V1.0.pdf Let us applaud all the 41 nominationshttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#Nominations. They are fantastic contributors and a great inspiration. We salute their passion and commitment to contribute and develop educational content under a free license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content. We should celebrate everyone of them. I would like to thank the entire Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury personally for their time and efforts toward the NWR 2011 exercise. This is the first year for the NWR 2011 and we have tried our best to make this exercise participative. Next year we hope to do even better. We welcome everyone's inputs to make this even process better next year. The intention of this exercise was to Discover, Document, Recognize and Share the contributions of prolific Wikimedians. As you will appreciate this is an ongoing process. We hope we taken a small step in that direction. Thank you. regards Arun On behalf the NWR 2011 Jury http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011#The_Jury ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l