Dhaval,
Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which is me) who
allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified it with me first?
I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia, which has run
out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with the others who were present at
the meet up.
I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp.
It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public platform without
checking your facts in the first place.
And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics.
Thanks,
Anirudh
Sent from my iPhone
On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held in Ahmedabad,
while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the administrators conveyed that
Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ
લગભગ બંધ છે.).
This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not aware of the
project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the Gujarati Wikipedian in
WikiConference India and from the site statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian
WIki Language wikipedia by Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently
shared this), they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are
not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its
state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events people convey
wrong message to the masses.
I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct their mistake by
spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in successive meetups as
their moral duty to pay back the debt.
This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone aware that
there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day or Uttarayan, when
gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be an indication of how active
this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics,
please contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
Regards,
Dhaval
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