Thanks Krishna for forwarding the mail to main thread in Indian mailing list. My mails are not reached at Indian mailing list, although I have successfully subscribe the to the list. I am again cc to Indian mailing list. we should discuss your tread also https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2019-April/014000.htm...
Regards, Manoj Kulkarni
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 6:23 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga kcvelaga@gmail.com wrote:
This message was originally Telugu Wikimedia mailing list on the branding community consultation discussion, by Manoj Kulkarni. I am looping in the Indian mailing list, where this discussion was originally going on.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 5:49 PM manoj kulkarni < kulkarnimanoj1969@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have some concerns regarding this whole process which, I think, need to be addressed as soon as possible.
As far as I have understood, Samir is coming to India to get feedback
from
the Indian affiliates and communities about the re-branding proposal and report it back to WMF. Re-branding is a very debatable proposal which
will
definitely affect, in a controversial and unclear way, the future of
almost
all emerging communities, affiliates and sister projects.
So, my questions are, 1) Why was information about Samir's trip to India, not declared to the communities well ahead of time so that the communities and affiliates
could
express their voices and concerns directly with preparation? 2) Who decided that visiting only Punjabi, Hindi and Bangalore
communities
is sufficient enough to provide the feedback of all Indian communities?
Why
were not other communities and affiliates included in the process? What criteria these three communities met so that they can represent the
voices
from all over the country and why not other communities consulted about this? Why is Samir staying in Patiala, Delhi and Bangalore for extra days for local sightseeing and not utilizing the days to communicate with other communities and who planned for this kind of schedule? How will it be ensured to provide ample opportunity for community
members
to express their opinions? Online session is not a good option as many don't have the necessary infrastructure to do so.
There is a feeling in the community that re-branding is already a made decision by the WMF and this kind of non-transparency further endorses
that
theory.
Hoping to get positive responses.
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