<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">Dear Praveen,<br><br>Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:<br><br><span>I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6 years, though recently I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My username on either wikis is 'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki and an admin in the English Wiki. My edit contributions are at <a target="_blank" href="http://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=tawiki_p">http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=tawiki_p</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=enwiki_p">http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=enwiki_p</a> Besides these, I wrote a bot for exporting
over 1 lakh dictionary entries to Tamil Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I have also participated in several outreach efforts and volunteered with MediaWiki localisation. I presented a paper at Wikimania 2009. ( <a target="_blank" href="http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217">http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217</a> )</span><br><br><span>As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email outlining the process. For now, you can check the post by HPN at <a target="_blank" href="http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563">http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563</a></span><br><br>Regards,<br>Sundar<br><div> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Praveen Prakash <me.praveen@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, March 11, 2010 3:24:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter<br></font><br>
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I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.<br>
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But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a
community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing
list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i
missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a
special chapter for wikimedia English projects?<br>
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I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
linkedin (<a target="_blank" href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba">http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba</a>).
He is also being CEO,
Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I
don't have any problem about that). I am thinking about that election
process and members. I am sorry but
frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If possible introduce
them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community about any
further steps.</span><br>
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If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll
be more happy. <br>
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PraveenP<br>
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Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:<br>
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<pre>Dear all,<br><br>As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft<br>Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has<br>been put up on Meta here:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA</a></span><br><br>Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better<br>part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for<br>improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions<br>on the relevant talk page:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA</a>.</span><br><br>However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important<br>that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made<br>on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us
maintain<br>the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.<br><br>People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming<br>the India chapter may find my blog post on it,<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563">http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563</a> a complimenting</span><br>read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen on<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India</a>.</span><br><br>Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the<br>MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.<br>--<br>Hari Prasad Nadig<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://hpnadig.net">http://hpnadig.net</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/hpnadig">http://twitter.com/hpnadig</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank"
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