Conratulations Jyothis. Well deserved
Thanks Tinu Cherian On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Congrats, Jyotis! Your knowledge of multiple Indian languages will come in > handy. > > - Sundar > > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium > for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > *To:* wikimediaindia-l <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > *Sent:* Tue, March 9, 2010 1:01:12 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Steward election 2010 > > Hoi, > Congratulations :) > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 9 March 2010 08:17, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> As all of you are aware, the steward elections ( >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010) got over on >> Februray. Many of you might have cast your votes during this elections. The >> results are declared today. >> >> I am extremely happy to inform all that, one of our colleague >> *Jyothis*<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis>(He is an active >> Malayalam Wikipedian), has been elected as a steward ( >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010). He has received >> the *second maximum percentage of votes* among all the candidates who >> contested for the steward post. >> *I assume that he is first Indian language wikipedian elected to that >> post/usergroup. * >> >> For those who are not aware what is a steward is, the below definition >> from MetaWiki will help. >> >> Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all >> Wikimedia wikis, including the ability to change any and all user rights and >> groups. They are tasked with technical implementation of community >> consensus, and dealing with emergencies (for example, cross-wiki vandalism). >> Stewards aim to make no decisions as stewards, but are empowered to act as a >> member of any permissions group on any project with no active member of that >> permissions group. For example: wikis without administrators may call upon >> stewards to fulfill that role; stewards will act as a bureaucrat as needed >> on wikis without bureaucrats. >> >> >> As mentioned in his >> profile<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/votes/Jyothis>, >> he can speak 5 languages >> (Malayalam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam>(his mother tongue), >> Tamil <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>, >> Kannada<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language>, >> Hindi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi>, and English) and read and >> write 3 languages (Malayalam, English, and Hindi). >> >> As an Indian language wikian, he will be able to understand the technical >> problems that we face in Indic langauge wikis. He can surely support most of >> the Indian language Wikis. >> >> I am extremely happy about the percentage of votes Jyothis recived, since >> rest of the wikians started noticing contributions from non-latin language >> wikis. >> >> >> I wish him all the success. >> >> Shiju Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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