On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:52 AM, mayur <mayur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Its not a politics Game, its all about to give opportunities to all Indian >> Communities, North Indian Community has not grown so far and reason behind >> this is lack of Awareness of Wikimedia Foundation.Not Only Chapter But also >> Foundation Activities are Totally Focused towards South India.WE are not >> Blaming the chapter for this but A New Chapter in New Delhi will make more >> Opportunity to grow Wikimedia movement in the Biggest Educational City of >> India which has been completely Ignored by the Foundation and the India >> Chapter as well. >> >> Regards >> mayur >> >> >> Dear Mayur, > > From what I have seen and experienced over the last year, most of the > offline and online growth in India has been initiated and propelled by the > wikipedian community. > > Until September 2010, regular meetups were held only in Bangalore and an > annual Malayalam meetup was held in Kerala. Now meetups are regularly held > also in Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata - and meetups have begun in Chennai, > Hyderabad, Orissa and other places. Similarly, wiki workshops and academies > are being held in different locations around the country - and other > activities are being planned. All these are community-led events. > > A chapter is a formal legal entity - please see the press kit at > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Press_kit for more information about the > community, the chapter and the Foundation in India. > > Given your interest in stimulating activities in north India, I would urge > you and other community members equally interested to meet up as a first > step. > > It would be fantastic if this conversation could help stimulate interested > wikipedians in Delhi and north India to meet up and plan further. Good luck > and I hope it happens! > > Bishakha > > Just realized my last two sentences could be misread/misinterpereted: just to clarify - it would be great if interested wikipedians in Delhi/North India could meet and make plans to build these communities. To me, this seems to be the critical first step, more than plans to start a sub-national chapter. Community activism is what seems to be needed.
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