<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Shahid Akhtar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mohd.shahid_akhtar@rediffmail.com">mohd.shahid_akhtar@rediffmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me.praveen@gmail.com" target="_blank">me.praveen@gmail.com</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><div><div>K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar? What
was the election process & criteria? How many people involved in
that? Why all these process were hidden? Why even Hindi not informed?</div></div></div></blockquote></div></span></span><span>
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</span>This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more inclusive and transparent!<br><br>I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of
all the people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not
be a bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian media without having made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia.<br><br>Wikimedia India will receive thousands of rupees in donations. We need trusted people who are representative of the pan-India Wikipedia community to handle it.<br>
<br>If this is a group of people who are meeting in Bangalore for wining and dining, this should be named "Wikimedia Bangalore" chapter, not "Wikipedia INDIA" chapter!<br></blockquote></div><br>*My Few paisas.*<br>
<br>As to my understanding after reading the MoA, there are no special privileges to founding members apart from not requiring to "apply for membership".[Authors can clarify if my understanding is not right] I suppose there would be an election after the formation and only the elected persons will have additional privileges than a normal member. So in that sense, who starts it really doesn't matter.<br>
<br>I dont know why people are cribbing its secret / closed group when meta was up all the while. Did anyone make a point to edit any of the meta pages and was it left undiscussed / discarded? No one stopped anyone from doing that.<br clear="all">
<br>Trust is not measured in terms of edit count.Showing up on the day and commitment in real world is also required and I guess the people who signed the MoA did that. I agree with pan-India comment but again elections would happen I guess and as i already mentioned "founding members" dont get any extra privileges. Probably some clause can be added to include regional / linugual EC members.I would add that right away to discussion page.<br>
<br>Sorry i take the wine and dine comment too seriously. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL </a>is not about wine and dine. Please go through the pages to see what was going on the meetings.<br>
<br>-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a href="http://j.mp/SrikanthL">http://j.mp/SrikanthL</a><br><br>