Praveen, Whether there was anything personal or confidential in Gerard's private emails to you is for him to say not for you to decide.
Regards Jonathan > On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:59, praveenp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Osmar Valdebenito, > No offense was intended :-(. For prominent communities that may be true, but > could you check list of users who got scholarship from Malayalam community. > > > Amir Ladsgroup, > > 1) As you can see there is nothing confidential or personal in Gerards reply. > He just gave a summary of "known" practices. > 2) Users are not asking for trophies. They also want to participate Wikimania > and share and get the experience. > 3) Wikimedia projects are community processes. I simply don't understand how > granting scholarship to same persons again and again for five or six years > help that process. I also dont understand that communication and sharing of > multiple viewpoints, ideas and practices is possible in the above scenario. > 4) Yes; If clicking tick marks in translatewiki on some 500 string in 5 > minutes before applying for scholarship (as reviewing the translation) is a > prominent contribution. > > In the beginning every body treated equal, we have multiple participants > (with understandable reasons) for Wikimania. It started to shrink later and > now people plainly believe granting scholarship is an act of favoritism. I > also want to prove I am wrong. > > Regards, > Praveen. P > User:Praveenp > > PS: Mail striped because mailman held my previous reply claiming " Message > body is too big:" > >> On Friday 31 July 2015 05:03 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: >> There are several issues I want to comment: >> 1-First of all. Do you have permission from Gerard to publish your >> conversation? Maybe there is something confidential in it, Did you care to >> check? >> 2- Scholarship is not award or trophy, bear that in mind. >> 3- People are expected to come here and learn, communicate, etc. that's why >> a same person gets scholarship, >> 4- No one's wife got scholarship because of being wife of someone. They >> probably are prominent contributors too. >> 5- Check my first question and answer that. (Emphasizing) >> >> Best >> >>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:05 AM Osmar Valdebenito >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sorry, but when I read "No regular Wikimedian get any scholarship", I >>> stopped reading. >>> It is not only a lie, but also very unfair to all the extremely great >>> Wikimedians that attended and made great contributions in Wikimania, and >>> also the volunteers that have helped now and in the past reviewing and >>> evaluated thousand of applications in the Scholarship Committee. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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