Though I’m not sure if it’d be right to take names here, but this is probably an opportunity to discuss about:
- if there is a need for consensus when a Wikimedia affiliate provides support to one person from another affiliate - if an affiliate provides support if they share it on wiki for transparency or not - Wikimania scholarship recipients generally create Learning Patterns and write reports. These are good practices in general but making it mandatory for the scholarship recipients brings out a really valuable pool of knowledge which otherwise might not be the case because of the post-Wikimania fatigue. There is a need for more clarity if non-Wikimania participants (individual/affiliate reps) who travel because of support from another affiliate should also produce the same - If an affiliate decides to provide support, should they announce publicly (on regional mailman lists and meta/village pumps) if there is any conflict. If there was a rationale that the former used to identify certain individuals, should they share that as well? I think discussing these above would be useful in general. Bodhi, didn’t want to steal your thunder but I think some of the general points (above) can be discussed which in someway would be useful for all such future supports. Subhashish Begin forwarded message: > From: Bodhisattwa Mandal <[email protected]> > Date: July 27, 2018 at 12:32:20 PM GMT+5:30 > To: wikimediaindia-l <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh > Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list > <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town > without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why was he > sent to the conference depriving other community members from India who were > in the waiting list. > > He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The meeting > doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and already there > were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the meeting. > > To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money. > > Thanks, > Bodhisattwa > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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