Thank you, all. It's been a terrific experience, and I hope to continue to be of use to the Foundation and to the movement in my next term. Best Bishakha On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Outofindia <outofindia(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum

Bishkha, Congrats! And please do something to push for flexible rules that take care of non-Western situations while crafting a global online encyclopedia. I feel that societies which don't have such a long tradition with the printed word (or are mostly oral societies) have a distinct disadvantage while trying to match up to global Wikipedia requirements (for 'notability', referencing, etc). This gets doubly bad when someone needs to reference non-English texts, which might not be visible in cyberspace itself. Do make a case for the need of separate standards when writing about Asian-African-LatinAm societies in the Wikipedia. This will go a long way in creating a level playing field. FN -- FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 fn(a)goa-india.org Goa,1556's updated list of books available on and from Goa: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76671049/Goa1556-Catalogue-Books-from-Goa On 29 December 2012 12:11, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> 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