I want to write with the spirit that I respect the co-founders of the Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group (WAPAC) as individual volunteer fellow Wikimedians. Still, I strongly disagree with creating this user group. It seems like forming a new user group where three co-founders have some conflict with Wikimedia Bangladesh. But instead of finding ways to resolve those conflicts, they, all from Bangladesh, started a parallel user group and called it Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group.
For context, the Asia-Pacific region includes over 45 economies and is home to 60% of the world's population that speaks over 2,000 languages. I highly doubt that forming a user group due to unsolved interpersonal conflicts is a good idea. There is, of course, a lack of conversations with communities of this large region and a lack of regional representation. Not to mention, ESEAP, the organiser of Wikimania this year, had no clue. There are many ways to solve interpersonal conflicts, but creating a user group without a real reason is not one. Subhashish On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM Iftekhar Hossain Iftee < i.h.ifte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: my last mail was caught in moderation queue, I sent it before > Aishik's last mail but it got approved after his mail. > > Iftee > > On Sat, May 27, 2023, 7:41 PM Aaqib Anjum Aafi <aaqibanjuma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am not sure where is the disappointing stuff in this thread. You are >> free to start a usergroup and work under an umbrella which adds more to the >> diversity of the movement, and I suppose it should, in your case, given >> you plenty of valuable contributions. However, calling helpful and friendly >> suggestions of others on certain errors that you made as "something >> unconstructive" is just being dishonest. Most of the comments on this >> thread are telling you constructively to engage with the larger community, >> for instance, with regards to the name of the usergroup. I run a thematic >> usergroup and I had to go through months of AffCom review: this thing >> overlaps this thing and so on, even though I had not used any such name or >> overlapped seriously with any specific community. However, the wider >> community groups in India where consulted by AffCom before they approved my >> usergroup application. >> >> The reason of me telling this to you is that most of the people >> commenting here are sharing their experiences and telling you what should >> be the correct step. You should invite all the communities that are in the >> region with which the name overlaps and have their comments heard, and if >> that doesn't reach any conclusion, you can opt for a different name that >> could perhaps serve your ideas and goals better. >> >> I hope this makes some sense. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/PXM6YIMPATMAEKGVORO6FSOQN3AVA7J6/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/EIXHADJEFL5TG3C6WVK74V663TMFLLYP/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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