Dear Praveen, I help the Wikimedia Foundation through it's advisory board, and just wanted to say that I'm both grateful for your interest and glad that Nadig, Sundar, and others have been able to clarify the situation. If you look at meta, and particularly at the MoA, the process that has unfolded over the last few years is clearly outlined, and the names of Wikipedians associated with chapter efforts at different stages, including currently, are clearly listed. Any suggestions you have for Indian Wikipedians in general, and the chapter efforts in particular, need to be taken seriously - and they will be. Dear Kiruba, Thank you for your message of clarification. As you agreed to some time ago, could you please remove all the "Wikimedia India" references in connection with yourself, on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.? As you have just explained, you are not involved in the set-up effort currently. Therefore, removing references that connect you to the ensuing Wikimedia India chapter would prevent the kind of miscommunication that Praveen's message highlights. I appreciate your urgent attention to this matter. Cheers, Achal wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orgTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaindia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikimedia India Chapter (Shiju Alex) 2. Re: Wikimedia India Chapter (kir...@kiruba.com) 3. Re: Wikimedia India Chapter (Hari Prasad Nadig) 4. Re: Wikimedia India Chapter (Hari Prasad Nadig) 5. Re: Wikimedia India Chapter (BalaSundaraRaman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:25:46 +0100 From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <d8f18e211003110225o6a4525afrc88ba1747dbc9...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I request all the current committee members to *at least create a user page*in MetaWiki ( http://meta.wikimedia.org). If you could mention your home wiki and your contributions to WikiMedia foundation wiki projects (both inside and *outside wiki*) there, that will enlighten many of us. Shiju On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Praveen Prakash <me.prav...@gmail.com>wrote:I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter. But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a special chapter for wikimedia English projects? I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba). He is also being CEO, Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I don't have any problem about that). I am thinking about that election process and members. I am sorry but frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If possible introduce them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community about any further steps. If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll be more happy. PraveenP Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: Dear all, As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has been put up on Meta here:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions on the relevant talk page:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA. However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us maintain the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion. People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming the India chapter may find my blog post on it,http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen onhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India. Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter. -- Hari Prasad Nadighttp://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- -- [image: Wikipedia Affiliate Button]<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20100311/3806013b/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:29:11 +0000 From: kir...@kiruba.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <85319800-1268303333-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-4469530...@bda019.bisx.produk.on.blackberry> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Hi Praveen, Thanks for the mail. There have been multiple efforts in the past with good intentions but hasn't resulted in successful formation of the chapter. The current effort and the team is quite committed to getting that done. I was associated wit the effort but ran ahead of myself. Please discount any of the fancy titles and I apologise for that. The current team will throw more light on the process of chapter formation. With regards, Kiruba Sent from my BlackBerry? smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Prakash <me.prav...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:24:53 To: <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:17:04 +0530 From: Hari Prasad Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <9a6a47181003110247h7172e2a1r9ff911de17789...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Praveen Prakash <me.prav...@gmail.com>wrote:But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a special chapter for wikimedia English projects?The page on meta wiki has had discussions for setting up the Wikimedia India chapter since 2005. This is not something that has happened over last year, but a continued effort from what were several failed attempts earlier. I have jotted down a brief note on the progress which can be read here: http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 But over the last one year, the people involved have shown tremendous commitment and worked hard, which is why we are here today at a stage where constitution of the chapter has now been placed before the community for their comments. We reasonably expect that the membership would change as per the charter in order to facilitate the will of the community. |
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