I agree with Srikanth. Some people with vested interests may want to join ... -+-~~~~
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:39, Jayanta Nath <jayanta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1) On-spot *India Chapter membership* for visitors if they wish. >> > > Was : Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata > Book Fair 2012' > > I think we are going for numbers game here. Whats the point of on-spot > membership? Seriously, does having 50,000 chapter members do any great > thing for Wikipedia? I seriously fail to understand (in the past, future), > what can the chapter do with just so many members who do not have an idea > about Wikipedia community and many of whom may not go beyond attending > meetups and conferences. > > Sorry if am sound odd here, I just dont like this part of chapter, where > the chapter instead of instilling confidence in community and making them > members, chooses people who attend a meetup / conference / stall to become > its members.(In many cases makes someone member of chapter without having a > clue about it. I personally know this since my friend who happen to > accompany me to a meetup, just because he had nothing else to spend time is > a chapter member now) I do not mean any offense to any of those who sign > up(they may be genuinely interested, good guys), but just fail to > understand what we are trying to achieve with chapter membership numbers. > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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