Abhi,<br>What you said, makes perfect sense.<br><br>Mayur,<br>You said you want to grow from good to Excellent Community.<br>The Tamil Wikipedia and Kannada Wikipedia did that before the Chapter even came up.<br>These two languages were doing great even in 2009.<br>
<br>Here is my suggestion. <br>These 20 something people you mentioned. <br>TELL them ALL to join the Chapter.<br>Here is a link to the form, for convenience:<br><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividualV1.pdf">http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividualV1.pdf</a><br>
If you join the Chapter and have interactions with the EC and other members, you might achieve what you wanted in the first place.<br>--Regards,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2011 18:55, Abhilash S Unni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abhilashunni@gmail.com">abhilashunni@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">And my question Mayur (as a fencesitter for this entire conversation is), whether the approach has been right, tone has been right and the discussion has been right?<div>
<br></div><div>The India chapter just started operations a few months back, isn't it prudent for all to wait and see how it is evolving before opening up chapters all over. A non-starter is as good as not having one. With as much respect to all who is behind the initiative for a Delhi chapter, I honestly think you should give reasonable time to the India Chapter and the Foundation office being setup in Delhi to mature before embarking on having more chapter offices in India.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Abhi</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:40 PM, mayur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mayurdce@gmail.com" target="_blank">mayurdce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>My answer would be to grow from good to Excellent Community</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">That is exactly my question.<br>If you can get a good community, why would you want a Chapter all for yourself?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2011 14:21, mayur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mayurdce@gmail.com" target="_blank">mayurdce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi all,</div>
<div> I just discussed that if we can gather a good community in delhi, then we will proceed further for Creation of Chapter.Its not about to aim a Chapter without having Good Community.We will proceed further if we get 10-20 member.Plz don't make it a serious issue.We all are part of the Same family.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Vibhi,<br>As far as I know, the Chapter, is registered in K'taka and as per K'taka rules you need to be above 18 to be a part of it. I'm pretty sure this age rule is commons throughout the country. If it is, even if you do get a chapter, you'll have to wait 5 years to be a member.<br>
You're13. The same age, I was when I joined Wikipedia.<br>I suggest you concentrate on your edits.<br>I see you have good language skills, why don't you focus on local wikiprojects?<br>Or help me translate Huggle to Hindi or Samskrit? <br>
Have a look: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Localization" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Localization</a><br><br>Arun, Naveen, and I had held a Samskrit academy last year in Bangalore.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1</a><br>The people who attended it are still active on Samskrit Wikipedia. Get in touch with Arun or me, we can plug you into their Google Group.<br>
<br>Are you interested in Photography?<br>Or editing images? Maps perhaps?<br>Get in touch with PlaneMad, Logicwiki, SBC-YPR, naveenpf or me, we can collectively contribute to the Commons.<br><br>If you are interested in bird watching, I'm pretty sure User:Shyamal will be more than happy to help you identify birds and upload pictures.<br>
<br>Or are you into coding?<br>Get in touch with Logicwiki, Tinucherian or Yuvipanda.<br>I'm pretty sure you can improve your edits and contributions thru these channels.<br><br>My best wishes to you.<br><br>--Regards,<br>
SR.<br><br><br>
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<div>On 6 June 2011 13:02, Bishakha Datta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com" target="_blank">bishakhadatta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Bishakha,<br>
<p>Just to point out, our community was going super strong in the first half of 2009, before our first meetup at Tinu Cherian's house in July 2009. We were colaborating, discussing and working together, on Wikipedia itself. Without the mailing list, knowing each other, offline, on Facebook or Twitter ... <br>
Ask anyone in the Banglore community, purely by using Users talk pages we got several GA and FA level articles. Gdibyendu, SBC-YPR, me and Logicwiki got Transport in India elevated to GA, without knowing each other offline.<br>
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<div>Got it - didn't mean to suggest offline better than online. <br><br>Totally agree on the basic point: building a strong community, by any means necessary.<br><br>Best<br>Bishakha<br></div></div><br></div></div>
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