<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;">
<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"></span></span>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></blockquote></div><br>While responses from many people to your email must have cleared up that the edit count wasn't the criterion for the initial crew, what is the sanctity in mentioning edit counts from just the last one year? <br>
<br>If you look carefully my edit counts on several projects and overall contribution have been more substantial than the convenient numbers you have projected out of the last one year. I've been involved in the projects for last 6 years now, with
contribution in various roles - including one as a member at Chapters
committee. The barn stars, the press quotes of events I've organized, the articles I've written on media and
the projects I've been involved in surrounding wiki speak of my work here.<br><br>I would therefore be compelled to ask - do the edit counts (whether present or past ones irrespective of whether it is substantial or not) solely speak of all the Wiki related activity I've spent time on? Does it speak of the innumerable hours I've spent as part of the EC? Does it speak of the countless hours I've spent on improving Kannada Wikipedia and related projects? <br>
<br>Many people in the community know me by my work surrounding Kannada language projects, in bringing together people from Indian language projects and on Unicode, Indic Computing apart from advocacy. If there was one time I have not really been in the forefront of process of setting up a chapter - that would be this time. I have coordinated all the earlier attempts except the last one (although I was very much part of the last one as well). Please dig up information before maligning any contributor with convenient split up of stats on a public mailing list or before resorting to a personal attack. You should know better to read this:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks</a><br><br>The last few years I've been more active in Wiki work other actual editing. I believe that it is as important to the growth of the community as is the activity that can be measured by stats on the projects. It is important that we start giving importance to every role that contributes to the community other than just the scalable activity in terms of edits.<br>
-- <br>Hari Prasad Nadig <br><a href="http://hpnadig.net">http://hpnadig.net</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/hpnadig">http://twitter.com/hpnadig</a><br><a href="http://flickr.com/hpnadig">http://flickr.com/hpnadig</a> <br>
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