Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ownership of Articles (was New Volunteer joins WikiProject India team)

Direct to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_articles Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:47:23 -0800 From: parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] New Volunteer joins WikiProject India team Ashwin, I understand what you mean. Perfectly, but I just want to point it out that we MUST avoid using that word infront of new users. Time and again, at meetups, we've had this question. I own an article. He edited it. What should I do? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote: Oh, I am under no apprehensions about ownership of WikiProject India. I am only a volunteer who tends to it as SIG chair on being requested by some colleagues. So it is my something in my care - a trust belonging to the people in which I look after something which belongs to all. Ownership here can only mean the feeling that Wikipedia "belongs" to all of us and because of that it is inherently good and desirable of us to work for it - not that I "own" this or that article. When you "own" something you care about it and work for it. I am sure that is what is meant by Nitika. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote: Nitika, The term ownership doesn't exist here. Yes, while I welcome BPositive and hope that he helps us increase the Quality of Indian articles, I really don't like this Ownership thing people talk about. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Nitika <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: That's great! So good to see more people sharing responsibilities and taking ownership of projects in Wikipedia. I wish you all the best Pratik! I'm sure you'll learn a lot while leading this project. And a great "thank you" to Ashwin who has been indefatigable watching out on several WikiProjects, co-ordintaing offline Wikipedia project, handholding newbies, guiding all the Campus Ambassadors, leading GA master class, encouraging everyone to join WikiProject India and the list goes on and on and on. Thank you so very much Ashwin! :-) Nitika On 16-Feb-2012, at 9:45 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l