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Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><me.praveen@gmail.com></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><div><div class="h5">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></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>Who decided the list of founding members (Signatories) mentioned on this page <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA#WIKIMEDIA_INDIA">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA#WIKIMEDIA_INDIA</a>? And how was this list decided? How come Gautam K John (who is self-admittedly not involved with Wikipedia) was invited to be a founding member, but someone like User:Bhadani was not?<br><br>Why is some like HPN who has not made even 100 edits in 2009 and 2010 to
English,
Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedias combined together is at the forefront of
this initiative, but some of the most important contributors from Indic
wikipedias are not even a part of this?<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><br><span>Best regards<br>Shahid<br></span><br><A HREF="http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle"></A>