Congratulations and Best wishes to Santhosh Thottingal ! <div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Milos Rancic</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millosh@gmail.com">millosh@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM<br>Subject: [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee<br>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <<a href="mailto:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org">foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
<br><br>I am glad to announce that Language committee is stronger for three<br>
new members. By the time of getting their applications, the list is:<br>
<br>
Ζαχαρίας Διακονικολάου (Zaharias Diakonikolau) (meta:User:ZaDiak)<br>
* languages spoken: el, en-4, de-2, grc-2, pnt-1<br>
* living in: Europe, Greece, Rhodes<br>
* reason for inclusion: A couple of months ago Language committee<br>
announced that it is searching for members from the [types of]<br>
projects which don't have Wikipedia-like dynamics. Zaharias has passed<br>
as an applicant from Wikiversity (he is admin at Beta Wikiversity and<br>
bureaucrat at Greek Wikiversity). However, his qualifications go<br>
further: he is actively working on creation, editing and promoting<br>
projects in various Greek languages. Knowing that he is young, he will<br>
be our long term investment, too.<br>
<br>
Oliver Stegen]] (meta:User:Baba Tabita)<br>
* languages spoken: de, en-4, sw-3 <small style="color:gray;">nl-1, fr-1</small><br>
* living in: Africa, Kenya, Nairobi (from Europe, Germany)<br>
* reason for inclusion: Oliver is a linguist who is working for SIL on<br>
East African languages. We'll have one ultra-relevant expert in<br>
LangCom thanks to Jon Harald Søby, one of the LangCom members, who met<br>
Oliver in Nairobi.<br>
<br>
Santhosh Thottingal]] (meta:User:Santhosh.thottingal)<br>
* languages spoken: ml, hi-3, en-3, ta-2,<br>
* living in: Asia, India, Chennai (Madras)<br>
* reason for inclusion: Santhosh is a free software guru interested in<br>
languages. He will help us in articulating projects for covering<br>
language-related needs of Wikimedia projects.<br>
<br>
I want to add one more point related to Santhosh. He has passed as a<br>
LangCom member not because he is from India, but because he has<br>
relevant expertise and right attitude. Although he speaks three Indian<br>
languages, he has become a member of LangCom because he is a free<br>
software guru interested in languages. Before Santhosh's application,<br>
we would have been happy to see anyone with this qualification and<br>
this attitude, no matter of location of birth or residence.<br>
<br>
However, Bishakha's question and subsequent conversation helped, as it<br>
gave impulse to Santhosh to submit the application. And that brings to<br>
my mind that it would be good to pass the whole world periodically and<br>
raise the geographical equality issue. And it is not a joke. That's<br>
obviously giving people courage, or at least the idea, that they have<br>
the same right to become members of any Wikimedia body, as any<br>
Westerner has. Sometimes the qualifications won't be relevant for<br>
particular position, sometimes they will.<br>
<br>
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