Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work
into the event. They helped many people contribute to the
Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise
for making all of this happen.
Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram
Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for
all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for
mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone
out.
Do visit our maintenance category
WTM, specially created for the
event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far.
Sincerely
Anshuman Fotedar
PS:
1.
During the photowalk, some of the participants who were
taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by
private security personnel and asked to handover their
cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav
and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put
forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws
by photographing the structure from the outside since it
was not a legally protected one. They were standing on
the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter,
Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the
security personnel to the police station where they
explained that they were within their rights to do what
they did, and that citizens of the country need not take
prior permission to take exterior photographs of private
property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI
on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed
us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why
one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures,
but agreed with them per se that there is no law that
prohibits people from taking pictures there.
2.
The group that went to Bombay House (and
subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral)
and other places was delayed owing to the incident at
Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry
to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a
while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this
includes me) never reached HBCSE but
uploaded from home instead. Although we did get
several good contributions from the participants in
this group as well, I do recognise that it may have
been nice if we could have joined in with the
participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I
apologise.