Hi Bodhi Just curious to know what is the meaning of non bot edit. ? Will the semi automatted edits come under non bot or bot edits ? Also the automated edits using different applications done under a non bot account will it come under non bot edit or bot edit ?
Regards, J.Balaji. On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 10:56 AM Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: > Just saying... tens of thousands of edits seems far too large a number > for a person to qualify for membership of your EC. Gives substance for > the argument of number of edits being used to exclude people by > drastically reducing the number of people qualified. Arguments about > "process" accepted by a community does not hold water. Much more > logical would have been a fairly large number so that EC members are > experienced but not so large that people can be kept out on that > pretext, such as 3000 to 5000 range. Ten thousand image uploads to > Commons is rubbish. Hardly anyone can put up a thousand images or more > which are of encyclopedic value. Commons is not meant to be a place > where thousands of images are dumped without reference to quality, > utility, educational value etc. > > I don't edit on Bn WP and my User name is AshLin. I applaud good work > done by individual editors of Bengali community and in some cases by > the community as a whole. But I am just being frank here in telling it > like it is. > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:06 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal > <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Samir, > > > > Although your mail had baseless allegations against the user group > without any references, but anyway, thanks for your reply. Please note > that, this is not an official reply from the user group, as the > representative committee, which is to be formed in very near future, may > consider to respond officially, if needed at all. This is my completely > personal reply as I have started the thread to inform the larger community. > > > >> The content of the bylaws are very disturbing. It sees like a executive > club purposely made to leave some people leave. The Wikipedia culture is > quite open and this kind of policies is made by some people nd passed in a > small amount of window gives only bad vibes to the other Wiki community. > Accept my Condolences to all people who got thrown out of the user group > because some people decided to make all about "number of edits". As if > that is the only thing a member can contribute towards progress of > Wikimedia. > > > > > > If you have read the bylaws carefully, you can see that the user group > is open to all Wikimedia account holders, who can become General members > just by signing up. No one is thrown out as you say. To become a > representative of the user group, a general member needs to pass some > criteria, which was set up after community consultation, because > representing user group in a forum is a serious affair. The user group > decided to take account of online editing for representative membership, > because a person who edits and work online with the community closely > understands the issues and dynamics of the community better than who > doesn't. No one objected to that when that article was raised for > discussion. Byt the way, what is the executive club anyway? Never heard of > it. > > > >> > >> Even sad is people are congratulating instead of expressing concerns > over the type of bullying done openly to Wikimedians of West Bengal. I am > happy thati left its nd I not there in it animore > > > > > > Can you please refer where the bullying was done to Wikimedians of West > Bengal regarding the bylaws, where everyone congratulated in stead of > expressing concerns? We had opened up the draft for community consultation > for one month (see talk page) and had online meetups for general members. I > cant remember any bullying in any discussion. I remember each and every > user who participated in the discussions, but there was no user named Samir > or likewise. Maybe I am having some memory loss again and others can help > me remember better. > > > > Sorry to hear that you are not there anymore, but you are not where? Can > you please specify. I have just checked the history of the general members, > couldn't find anyone with user name Samir. May be you have a different user > name, but that I don't know. > > > >> > >> It is to say that the editors working in wiki data are not having any > knolej. And other of them are disqalified. This is nothing more than > hitlership and if they are going in this way, the User Group, then I am sad > for everyone who have to go through this harassment. > > > > > > Where did you learn that the user group stated that the editors working > in Wikidata have no knowledge? Please cite that. Do you even know that one > of the main arena of work of the user group is to improve Wikidata entries > of different aspects of West Bengal. If you don't know that, consider > checking Wikidata:WikiProject West Bengal. Anyway, please keep your false > assumptions with you. > > > >> "Ache din aayenge", I guess inisited of goin further, we are only going > in back. > > > > > > The bylaw was passed after community consultation and with full > agreement with the general members who attended the meetup regarding the > bylaw. Although you didn't take time to discuss when it was being done, but > still If you have any recommendation or suggestion or grievances, you are > always welcome to suggest that in the talk page of the bylaw, so that > maybe, Representative Committee can consider them, in future to move the > user group forward. > > > > Your mail had baseless allegations against user group without any > references. Next time, please at least find some references and at least > provide your user name, so that everyone can understand your contribution > and motive. Otherwise dont expect a reply. > > > > Regards > > Bodhisattwa > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > -- > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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