Hello Everyone, *Reminder to IRC. In 45 min, that is by 6 PM IST, we have an IRC.*
Details of IRC: Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/ Channel: #wci Looking forward for your participation. See you in 45 min. Best, Pavan. On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:32 PM pavan santhosh <pavansanthos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have a few updates regarding the WikiConference India 2020 proposal for > Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a > very good positive response from individual Wikimedians > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians>[1]. > Also there have community-wide discussions on local Village Pumps on > various languages. Several of these discussions have reached consensus > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements>[2], > and are supporting this idea. > > We will be engaging with more communities this week, and clear any > concerns/doubts people may have during this week. Also to wrap up these > discussions and conclude, we would like to call for IRC. > > Details of IRC: > > Timings and Date: 6:00 pm on 20 August 2019 > > Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/ > > Channel: #wci > > Looking forward for all your active participation. Hope you all have a > great week ahead. > > Thanks & Rewards, > > Pavan. > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:45 PM pavan santhosh <pavansanthos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> We would like to thank everyone who have shown their interest by >> providing support or initiating discussions on the Meta-Wiki page, or in >> this thread. >> >> It is indeed thrilling to see a lot of support, interest and enthusiasm >> in Indian Wikimedians about this proposal for Wiki Conference India 2020. >> We will continue to engage in the talk page with the ideas and issues >> floated about this proposal as we have already mentioned in initial mail: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations >> . >> >> If any of the communities would like to endorse the proposal as a >> community, it would be great to see such a support. Please do it at the >> earliest possible, latest by 18th. This will help us to speed up the >> process, if there are any other comments, please direct them to the talk >> page[1] >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> Pavan Santhosh & Krishna Chaitanya >> >> [1] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations >> >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This is with regards to the suggestion that the proposed forthcoming >>> WikiConference, be a SAARC event, which was given by Abhinav Shrivastava. >>> >>> That is definitely a good idea, but not now in place of a national level >>> conference pertaining to and focussing primarily on our country. >>> >>> The foci of a national conference and an international conference are >>> completely different. So, that conference definitely needs to be arranged >>> but not here, not now. >>> >>> A second reason is that due to the geopolitics being such, there have >>> been cases of candidates being invited to participate in the conferences in >>> India and visas not being granted. There seems to be no way around this at >>> present. >>> >>> Thirdly, Indian issues, by virtue of our numbers of communities, size >>> and complexities, would totally drown out the regional combined interests >>> and the individual interests of foreign communities. So, the SAARC >>> Conference should have Indian representation but as a participant >>> proportionally the same as each other SAARC country, not dominating vide >>> our size, sophistication and reach. >>> >>> For that and other reasons, it may be appropriate for SAARC >>> WikiConference to be held in another country or if it is to be held in >>> India, then a year or two down the line after WikiConference India. >>> >>> Of course, Wikimedian representatives of SAARC communities are welcome >>> to attend our proposed national conference as usual. >>> >>> Let that SAARC Conference be planned and worked on by Abhinav for >>> subsequent implementation, since he has mooted this on behalf of Chapter. >>> >>> However, that idea needs to be sounded out first on the international >>> list to give notice to the communities of those countries. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 2:39 PM Dhaval S. Vyas <dsv...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Happy Gandhi Jayanti to you and all! >>>> >>>> Very pleased to see WCI being organised again, as they say, better late >>>> than never. Thanks Telugu wiki community for taking lead. I will love to >>>> help remotely as much as I can and will hope to be able to attend it as >>>> well. >>>> >>>> Kind Regards, >>>> Dhaval >>>> >>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 05:06 pavan santhosh, <pavansanthos...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Fellow Wikimedians, Happy Gandhi Jayanti! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hope all of you are doing well. I am writing this email to start an >>>>> initial conversation to host WikiConference India 2020 in Hyderabad. >>>>> >>>>> Many of us know that we had two national conferences in India till >>>>> date - the first one in 2011 in Mumbai, and the second one in 2016 in >>>>> Chandigarh. Both the conferences had been effective in bringing the >>>>> diverse >>>>> and massive Indian community together for a collective effort. The >>>>> cross-community connections made during these conferences led many future >>>>> collaborations across the country. >>>>> >>>>> I was one of the participants in 2016, and as I clearly remember, >>>>> during the closing note, it was stressed upon that WCI should ideally >>>>> happy >>>>> annually, at least bi-annually, and we shouldn’t be waiting years all >>>>> together for the next conference. But it has been more than three years >>>>> since the last conference, and we are yet to have one. With this as a >>>>> background, we have been discussing this for quite some time, and we >>>>> decided recently to take the baton forward and host the WCI in Hyderabad >>>>> in >>>>> 2020. We are willing to invest the required time and energy to make this >>>>> happen. Also we have had an initial conversation about this on Telugu >>>>> Wikipedia Village Pump, and the local community is in support of this. The >>>>> discussion can be seen here >>>>> <https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1#2020_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AF_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82_(%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE)_%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B> >>>>> [1] >>>>> >>>>> In 2018, the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation >>>>> published Global Event Strategy >>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#Global_Event_Strategy>[2] >>>>> which stressed on more and regular regional conferences. Such conferences >>>>> are being organized in other parts of the world such as WikiIndaba, CEE >>>>> Meeting, North America, Iberocoop, Francophone convention, Wikiarabia, >>>>> ESEAP etc. Even next year’s Wikimania is being organized by a group of >>>>> affiliates and that journey started with them organizing ESEAP conference >>>>> in 2018. >>>>> >>>>> This conference can and will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and >>>>> hopes together. It will help us in our journey towards better >>>>> collaborations, diverse efforts and reinforce our identity as the Indian >>>>> Wikimedia community. This conference will enable us to have better >>>>> knowledge about current capacities, the gaps and also to build leadership. >>>>> Exploring opportunities, bringing out leadership, empowering communities, >>>>> providing a strategic understanding are some of which this conference can >>>>> bring out. Apart from all these, providing a national-level platform for >>>>> Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their >>>>> collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on it’s own. >>>>> >>>>> I hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in >>>>> our various capacities and make this a reality by 2020. I believe we all >>>>> will take learnings from earlier attempts and improve processes & use best >>>>> practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully. >>>>> >>>>> Our entire thought has been put into this Meta-Wiki page >>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations>[3], >>>>> which has a more detailed explanation of what is what, and why. Since this >>>>> tends to large and an important discussion, please keep all the >>>>> conversations to talk page >>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations> >>>>> of above link[4]. We can’t comfortably converse about multiple issues on >>>>> one email thread (unlike sections on a page), and multiply emails can be >>>>> annoying by spamming inboxes and tough to keep a track. So we would kindly >>>>> urge all the conversations to be kept on the above-mentioned talk page. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks & regards, >>>>> >>>>> Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Links: >>>>> >>>>> 1. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ#2020_వికీమీడియా_జాతీయ_సమావేశం_(వికీ_కాన్ఫరెన్స్_ఇండియా)_హైదరాబాదులో >>>>> <https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/> >>>>> 2. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#Global_Event_Strategy >>>>> 3. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations >>>>> 4. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> Pavan Santhosh. >> > > > -- > Pavan Santhosh. > -- Pavan Santhosh.
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