For example, questioning the hiring rationale of the WMF India programs is simply wrong. .
I Strongly disagree.
Anything that the India Programs team does directly affects us. It may not have affected you in Tamil, but it has affected the English Wikipedia, and has done so strongly.
An example is the IEP, which involved the concentrated efforts of not just the Online Ambassadors, but VARIOUS non Indian editors as well.
As such, the community has every right to question an action of both the IP team/trust and the Chapter.
--Re,
Rsrikanth05
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Ravishankar
<ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
I have been watching the list silently for
last few months, have discussed with some of the active members in the
community and here is what I feel:
To the community:
*
There is simply too much noise and politics in this list. I got so fed
up that I chose to receive no mails
for some time. Please be aware that this list is also followed by global
community due to the global south strategy's significance. Should I
request that we can behave better?
* WMF India programs,
Wikimedia India chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community are
autonomous entities each answerable to their own framework. The
community can express its requirements, give feedback and point out when
the chapter and WMF India programs can do better but we cannot imagine
us to be in a position to control each and every detail of their
activity.
For example, questioning the hiring rationale of the WMF India
programs is simply wrong. Do we interfere on such things with the global
WMF? Then why do so with India operations? Such things are completely
within the autonomy of the organization.
If we need something from the chapter, let us join it and
participate. If we need something from the WMF India Programs, let us
voice it officially. For example, Shiju was asking for project proposals
from each Indic Wikipedia community village pump. That will be the best
place to partner with WMF India programs. Not the mailing list. If
something can't be done by WMF India programs, then let us request a
grant.
Unless the community is cleary impacted in a negative way,
criticising every activity of the WMF India programs even before they
start can only shatter their morale.
* I don't know the value of
the match-stick impact of the first Wiki conference India. But, let me
wait for its report to see if its really worth the lakhs and lakhs of
Rupees spent on it. Until then, I am not so keen on an annual Wiki
conference of the same scale. Let us do the real work in Wikipedias and improve them instead of spending our time in mailing lists.
To the chapter and the WMF India programs:
I expect
something bigger and grander from both of these organizations. They
should undertake work that the community can't do by itself or which
doesn't require the community work at all.
Example: Making strategic partnerships with academic, knowlege,
corporate and Govt. institutions for non-IEP purposes. This could be
acquisition of archives under free license or partnering with media /
mobile phone companies to distribute Wiki content.
Right now, there is too much overlap on who does what that
ultimately most of the community work is claimed as work done by chapter
or the India programs. We don't require a chapter or India programs to
do what the community was already doing by itself. At least, I don't
see how this can justify their annual budgets.
One personal request: I see that too much of your time is wasted in
the mailing list. Be BOLD, communicate / clarify only when required and
to the minimum. Just implement better and bigger programs and delight
the community with good results.
Thanks,
Ravi
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.