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, <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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