Hi Yuvi,
An agreement was reached that the group would first seek recognition as a
Wikimedia Chapter SIG and then as a Wikimedia User Group.
Best regards,
Bence
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
Seems to have stalled? Any update on this from AffCom /
Thank you Bence for making this public, as it seems that even I missed to
see that agreement announced here.
Regards,
Dhaval
On 27 Jan 2013 17:04, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Yuvi,
An agreement was reached that the group would first seek recognition as a
Wikimedia Chapter SIG
Seems to have stalled? Any update on this from AffCom / Chapter?
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From: Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sunday, 6 January 2013 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group
Ahmedabad
Dear Harsh,
First of all
Dear Harsh,
First of all thanks to you and the volunteers in Ahmendabad who are keen to
contribute to Mediawiki. it is evident from your contributions to Gujarati
(around Mediawiki) that you and others are very interested to do your bit.
Please continue to do this with the passion and the
Hi All
Since there is long discussion about MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad I am writing
this mail to give some points to you.
1st and most important point: all the motivation and why I am promoting this
group is clearcut written in our submission.
Hi,
A local MediaWiki Group is a nice initiative be it in Ahmedabad or anywhere
else as long as there are enthusiastic volunteers involved. It'll be nice
to see this group come to life (MediaWiki group Ahmedabad or a chapter SIG).
I must say it's quite awkward not seeing any involvement of
On 01/03/2013 10:02 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Just to let you all know:
Our Executive Manager Sowmyan met Erik some time back and asked if he
needed any help from the chapter. Erik said we could hold quarterly
hackathons in different parts of India.
We are more than happy to do this and
On 01/03/2013 08:37 AM, Theo10011 wrote:
So, to summarize again, Quim, a staff member, and you, a
No, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups were proposed at the MediaWiki
community and wikimedia-l, they were discussed also with the
Affiliations Committee and they were finally approved and
That is exactly what I was wondering as well Konarak.
On 4 Jan 2013 15:15, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
A local MediaWiki Group is a nice initiative be it in Ahmedabad or
anywhere else as long as there are enthusiastic volunteers involved. It'll
be nice to see this group
howdy Quim
I'll reply to your earlier post and state my main objection to this before
stopping. I don't really care as much as I might be leading you to believe,
so I should disengage. I care more for the larger picture. But I just want
to point out some minor discrepancies that might be
So here's my main concern.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
But the point that keeps me thinking is why the first response from
Wikimedia India chapter to a new group of volunteers seems to be inquiring
and resisting more than congratulating and embracing.
Hi Theo,
I think the historical context you put the Ahmedabad group in is
fascinating, but imputing the creation of the proposed group to yet another
WMF-led half-baked initiative is unfair.
Wikimedia User Groups are finally getting off the ground; while the page
might contain edits from me, it
My two cents based on two decades of experience in open source and
growing adoption and contributions in India:
Mediawiki is an open source project which has community members
contributing to it globally. Having a technical Mediawiki user group
with developers gathering together for face-to-face
Noopur,
Thank you for your response,
However, you still haven't answered my question on what benefit a User
Group has over Chapter SIG.
The Chapter was set up to help promote and streamline Wikimedia related
activities in India.
We have been asked by affcom and your response would greatly help us
The same question could be asked of any collective with a Wikipedia related
goal. However, it could also be asked if in the Wikiverse (which supremely
thrives on the value of collaborative work), it is inappropriate or
redundant to form new collaboratives (like MediaWiki group or other
specific
Hi,
I never mentioned anything about being part of the chapter.
The chapter was set up to promote the movement in India and it has done so
even in cases where a person/participant was NOT a part of the chapter..
I merely asked what benefit the Group recieves by taking the User Group
route over the
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
The same question could be asked of any collective with a Wikipedia
related goal. However, it could also be asked if in the Wikiverse (which
supremely thrives on the value of collaborative work), it is inappropriate
or
Truly said Quim and Noopur. The idea and motivation behind mediawiki
group is to encourage open source activities, particularly about
MediaWiki. At the same time, it also brings to gather people who are
working and can work in this perspective. So every wikimedian should
welcome this .
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you provide some URL to point to how this idea of groups came upon
for India. I only saw the staff leading the way for this instead of this
coming about organically.
This happened on IRC over a few hours, between me,
Hi Yuvi
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
This happened on IRC over a few hours, between me, quim and harsh. Most of
the conversation was quim convincing me that a mediawiki-india list would
be a much better Idea than a MediaWiki India User Group (which he
Hi Theo, I will reply your questions in detail later.
I just want to make sure that anybody engaging in this discussion has
read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups and understands what a
MediaWiki Group is. The motivations, process, etc is also explained
there. If there is something there
Theo,
I am not sure where this discussion is going to. Srikanth had specific
questions on why the MediaWiki user group and why not a technical SIG instead.
At least that's what I gather from his mail.
However you seem to be asking why a MediaWiki user group at all. For this you
will need to
hi,
Frankly, I don't thing there should be any objections on the formation of any
groups whether by the Chapter or by individual members in the community or by
Staff. This just provides people with a variety of options to join and
participate. The groups formed with reference to the Chapter or
Hi Harsh,
I have a few questions.
Was there any specific reason to go for a Separate MW Group? Is it due to
legal/trademark issues or funding?
I'm sure that those two could be sorted if it were taken up by the Chapter
similar to an SIG model.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Harsh Kothari
Hey Srikanth,
Just weighing in since I also happen to be supporting this process. Perhaps
a little background is necessary to know why MediaWiki groups have been
started as an initiative. Also copying Quim since he might be able to shed
more light on this issue. As I understand from the proposal
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