hi,
I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here.
warm regards,
Pradeep
User:Prad2609
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From: Frankly Idontcare <idontcarefrankly(a)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 November 2011 18:50
Subject: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia
To: "pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com" <pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com>
Dear Pradeep Mohandas,
I got your e-mail address from your user page on wikipedia. I understand that you were involved in the Wikipedia conference that was held in Mumbai in November 2011. This should mean that you are part of Wikipedia. I have to bring to your attention, an issue, that has been bothering me from a long time.
There are a few administrators on
Wikipedia who "legally vandalise" pages related to India and block anyone who disagrees with their point of view. (POV) For example, if you view the "India" article on Wikipedia, you will notice that the introduction does not do justice to what is arguably the greatest civilization in world history. It is heavily biased and doesn't mention the fact that India is the oldest and the oldest continuing civilization in history. It doesn't mention the fact that India is an emerging superpower. The page is being constantly monitored and vandalised by a group of users/administrators who seem to have an inherent bias towards India. I tried editing the page, but was unable to do so because of the following users: Fowler&fowler, Saravask, Quigley, Elockid and ElockidAlternate. Of all the mentioned users, Fowler&fowler and Elockid ( ElockidAlternate is his alternate account) are by FAR, the worst. they seem to have something
against India and Indians. Fowler&fowler has continually uploaded offensive images in the demographics and economy sectionof the India article and made disparaging remarks about India and Indians! He is an administrator!!
Moving on to Elockid and ElockidAlternate (same user with another account). Go through the Economic History of India
article. Under GDP Estimate, the following sentence was deleted by ElockidAlternate:
"According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book ''The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective'', India had the world's largest economy from the first to the 18th century, with a (32.9%) share of world [[GDP]] in the 1st century to (28.9%) in 1000 AD, and in 1700 AD with (24.4%)."
<ref>The World Economy: Historical Statistics, Angus Maddison</ref>"
and this sentence was replaced by:
"According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD: essays in macro-economic history, India had the world's largest
economy during the years 1 AD and 1000 AD"
Now, let me tell you how this is wrong on SO many levels:1) The first statement is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT and the book clearly mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the eighteenth century!
2) In the book " Contours of the world economy", the author clearly mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the 16th century and in the 17th century! the sentence uploaded by Elockid or ElockidAlternate is wrong!
I have tried to correct this error and I got blocked for being a "sockpuppet", even though i am not! I tried reporting on the Vandalism noticeboard, but i got blocked from editing the vandalism noticeboard!!! Is there anyway I can alert Jimmy Wales about the constant anti - Indian editing by some administrators on Wikipedia? Also, is there any way you can correct these edits, cuz a lot of people may be exposed to this misinformation! Please get back to me.
Regards,Frustrated
editor!
Hey all,
Check out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qquzVg4iido. Wait towards the end
and you'll have some news about how a call center employee in Scotland and
how he claimed to be a War hero. They mentioned nothing of
WP:NOTE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Note>or of our
stringent standards.
Just wanted to know all your comments on it, that's all.
--
Regards,
Debanjan*
- Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
Dear Wikipedians,
This email is the result of the stimulating discussions that I have had
over three days with members of the Wikipedia community at the Wiki
Conference India 2011 in Mumbai. The kind of enthusiasm that was visible
across the spectrum of participants – and it indeed was a wide spectrum
from 10 year old editors to representatives from various language
communities to persons with disabilities - has prompted me to write this
letter to the community members appealing them to extend their support to
the campaign to ensure that the ecosystem for Wikipedia – which is first
and foremost a free/open Internet - survives in India.
The threat to free/open Internet is REAL in India. The new Information
Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 threaten to curtail our
freedom on the Internet. As the demonstrations over the map issue outside
the venue during the conference showed, there could indeed be threats to
the way the community operates in India. These threats have multiplied
manifold by the notification of these rules.
*How do the rules operate ?*
The rules, at first look, seem innocuous, as it provides a set of
guidelines for intermediaries to operate in India. But, when you look
deeper, the rules are essentially a control on the users and a coercion on
the intermediaries to implement those controls. The rules require the
intermediary (Wikipedia will fall under the definition of the intermediary)
to enforce a set of terms and conditions on their users. This includes
asking the users not to post any content that will be considered as g*rossly
harmful*, harassing, *blasphemou**s*, *defamatory*, *obscene*,
pornographic, paedophilic, *libellous*, invasive of another's privacy, *
hateful*, or racially, ethnically objectionable, *disparaging*, relating or
encouraging money laundering or gambling, *threatening friendly relations
with foreign states*, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever. Thus
any editor who posts a content on a historical event, a person or anything
that could be perceived to come under this wide list could be courting
trouble.
The critical provision of the rules is that anyone who is not happy with
any content that is posted on the intermediary site, and this could include
a person who is upset with a map or a description of a historical event or
person, could write to the intermediary asking them to remove the content.
The intermediary on getting such a request is mandated to comply with the
request within a period of 36 hours. The rules neither require the
complainant to produce a court order, nor does it give an opportunity for a
content creator to reply to such a demand. The intermediary who does not
comply with such a request loses the
safe-harbour<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor#Internet>protections
that it otherwise enjoys. Such a mechanism threatens the
well-honed, time tested procedure of content creation in the Wikipedia and
exposes the Wikipedia to legal actions.
*Questions of privacy*
The Wikipedia community includes a large number of users who use pseudonyms
and their information is protected as per the privacy
policy<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy>of
Wikipedia. The rules could force Wikipedia, on getting a written
request
from a Government agency authorised under the rules to divulge information
of the user, including facts like IP addresses from which the user posted.
As the rules do not mandate a court order for gaining access to private
information of users and only require a written request, as against an
elaborate procedure in the case of Internet monitoring or telephone
tapping, this threatens the right to privacy of Wikipedia editors.
We, as a community of Internet users have to ensure that our freedom on
the internet- to use it as a platform for public discourse, as a means of
knowledge dissipation- is not curtailed in any manner by such draconian
rules. I request you to be a part of the campaign to get these rules
amended by signing this *online
petition<http://softwarefreedom.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&I…>
*, by writing to your MP and by spreading this message through Facebook,
Google Plus, Twitter, identi.ca and in every possible manner to Indian
citizens ….
Warm regards,
Prasanth Sugathan
Legal Counsel,
Software Freedom Law Center
K-9 Second Floor, Birbal Road,
Jangpura Extension,
New Delhi-110014
Phone# +91-11-43587126
Cell: +91 9013585902
www.sflc.in
Hello there,
First announcement is that, we have Wikipedia meetup on 27th Nov, 2011 from
3pm to 5pm. Tentative venue is Lamakaan.
Next, we are trying hard to fix a permanent venue where we can organise our
monthly meetups, I request all the members of the list to come out with
their suggestions. Availability of Lamakaan has been difficult over the
last few months because of other events taking place there that makes the
facilitators at Lamakaan unable to provide room for us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Hyderabad/Hyderabad3 is the
event page at wikipedia.
Yours,
Rahimanuddin Shaik
నాని
Hisham,
There has been much discussion on this already, but this does sound like
some *serious* development to someone like me who has been a long time
volunteer from India. And perhaps to several other long time contributors
from here too, who seem to be staying away from adding their opinion here
for a reason.
Thinking back about the time years back when many of us were used to
spending our personal earnings to organize small scale outreach programs
here, things have surely changed now and much of the development in last
couple of years has been, to say the least, *overwhelming*.
India is now getting to see well funded conferences, the funds are now
flowing in for new programs that seem to be keen in quickly 'inducing' a
community that otherwise would have taken its own time growing in an
organic way.
While all this focus on India and the sudden inflow of funds is all quite
amazing, this new development seems to indicate that the chapter, which has
the potential to better represent the community doesn't get to be at the
center stage anymore.
When the Chapter was formed, a major decision involved choosing between the
open, more democratic legal model of a 'society' and slightly locked-in
model of a 'trust'. The Chapter chose the 'society' model which presented
more democratic setup despite the paperwork, hassles and the delay it
presented. Although Bishaka did mention on an earlier email about the
trust, there was nothing much to indicate why specifically the India
programs office needs to be registered as a trust.
A serious concern in this context is that in a trust, the trustees needn't
change. Although new trustees can be elected, the control remains with the
initial set of trustees on board. The assets of the trust will be governed
by this closed set of trustees who are not subject to elections or
restricted to any fixed term unlike the model the chapter is built on.
It is rather disturbing and surprising to see none of the volunteers from
the community actually voicing their concerns about this. There sure was a
huge discussion when the legal model of chapter was in question. I should
note here that Wikimedia India Chapter could have started operating earlier
than it did had we gone for the 'trust' model, as this one presented lesser
hassles with respect to paperwork. I should also admit that I was one of
the people who objected strongly to the idea of going for a 'trust' and
instead voted for the 'society' model when the chapter was being formed.
Although I'm no longer part of the chapter now, it is quite disturbing for
me to see the efforts put into chapter being pulled to a certain
possibility of being sidelined and undermined, if not fully forced to shut
its office.
Like Ray expressed in an earlier email, it starts to give an impression
that somewhere we have lost our way. These two organizations would compete,
create more confusion than that exists now. It would surely make people
alienated. And above all - the community faces the risk of being dried out
with tons of chemical fertilizers that are being thrown in powered by huge
funds to pacify the growth. The rapidly spewed 'community' can vanish or
evaporate with just the same pace. The land could get barren. More than the
numbers, it will be the quality (which in turn retains the interest of
people contributing to it) that would sustain the projects. And if we
continue like this, there might be a time when nothing would grow even with
the best of the funds thrown in.
Cheers,
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Hisham <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> cross-posting to foundation-l & internal-l from India Community list;
> apologies if you've read this already.
>
> hisham
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Hisham <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Wikimedia India Program Trust
> > Date: November 11, 2011 9:55:00 AM GMT+05:30
> > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> > I'm writing to share an update with you on certain developments of
> relevance to the Wikimedia movement in India.
> >
> > Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust
> > For some time, efforts have gone into creating an organization that
> would provide an appropriate structure to support Wikimedia program
> activities in India. Aspects such as the current regulatory framework
> (regarding funding, taxation, etc.) as well as the legal protection for the
> India team have been considered to determine this structure. In this
> context, a host of options (e.g. subsidiary, branch, Section 25) were
> evaluated and a determination was made towards an independent non-profit
> public trust. Legal advice has been taken at every stage in this decision.
> >
> > A new entity, the “Wikimedia India Program Trust”, has now been formed
> and registered (in Delhi.) This will be the organization that will
> eventually drive India programs and house the team in India.
> >
> > Why an Independent Public Trust?
> > The Trust will provide an effective vehicle within India to marshal
> resources to support programs and partner with local institutions. The
> objective of the Trust is to promote the objectives of the Wikimedia
> movement and work closely with the Wikimedia community on various projects
> with an India focus. It is important to understand that the Trust will not
> have any editorial control over content on any of the Wikimedia projects.
> The Trust is a not for profit organization.
> >
> > Introduction of Trustees
> > Trustees have been identified based upon their support for Wikimedia
> movement's principles and plans in addition to having reputations for good
> governance and management.
> >
> > Sunil Abraham and Rahul Matthan have been requested to be the initial
> Trustees. Both are friends of Wikipedia and have extensive experience.
> >
> > Sunil is Executive Director of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS),
> is a long term advocate of free software and IP reform and has been
> supporting the Wikimedia community and movement for some time now.
> >
> > Rahul is a partner and heads the technology practice at Trilegal. He
> brings deep expertise and relationships that will be valuable for the Trust.
> >
> > These initial Trustees will serve for a term of three years at the
> maximum. All additional or subsequent Trustees will serve on rotation in
> accordance with a trustee selection plan that will be prepared.
> >
> > Trustees will not be compensated for their services.
> >
> > Governance, Funding, Financial Standards & Communications of the Trust
> > The Trust will be governed by Trustees who will provide oversight and
> guidance regarding the operations and governance of the Trust.
> >
> > Since the Trust is an independent organization, it will require funding
> for its operations which is in compliance with the legal and regulatory
> framework in India. It will seek funding from private donors within India
> as well as external sources.
> >
> > The Trust has the support of the Wikimedia Foundation which is a United
> States based non-profit foundation. However, in India all non-profit
> organizations need to be in existence for 3 years before they can receive
> funding from sources outside India. In the interim, they can apply for
> prior-permission under the FCRA regulations to help expedite the process.
> As a result, the Trust will shortly be applying for approval to receive
> funds from the Wikimedia Foundation in the future.
> >
> > As a Trust, we are required to have an independent external auditor. We
> have appointed KPMG. KPMG is experienced in auditing non-profit companies
> and are also auditors for the Wikimedia Foundation.
> >
> > Annually, the Trust will publicly disclose it's independently audited
> financial statements.
> >
> > The Trust will publish a monthly newsletter outlining its current
> activities and future plans. This will commence in December 2011.
> >
> > Operations of the Trust
> > The trust deed under which the Trust must operate clearly states that
> the purpose of the Trust is to independently promote the growth of
> volunteer activities within India in support of effective and unrestricted
> dissemination of free knowledge to the public.
> >
> > I will serve as the Executive Director of the Trust. Once it is
> possible, additional employees will be brought on to the Trust
> >
> > The Trust will eventually have an office in Delhi.
> >
> > In the interim, I have personally secured temporary office space to
> facilitate establishing the Trust and its mission. It is located at Top
> Floor, G-15, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016. It's a couple of minutes walk
> away from IIT Flyover and Hauz Khas Metro. Do drop in! It's a small but
> cozy place and we'd love to have you over!
> >
> > Conclusion
> > We continue to make progress in setting up program activities to support
> the growth of Wikimedia in India. We have a long way to go, but are glad
> that we are starting to build a solid foundation.
> >
> > The following link is for FAQs on this (and related) topics:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_India_Programs/FAQ_Wikimedia_India_Progr…
> >
> > As always, do reach out if you have any comments or questions.
> >
> > Warm Regards,
> >
> > hisham
> >
>
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hpnadig
FlickR: http://flickr.com/hpnadig
Wikipedia: [[User:HPN]]
Dear Community Members across India,
On behalf of the organising committee of WCI 2011, I extend our gratitude to the Indian Community for supporting the event in such droves! In terms of registrations, this was BIGGER than any Wikimania (which as you know is the annual global Wiki Meet).
This event would never have been possible without community support. We are extremely grateful for your support and hope that we lived upto your expectations. There have been several places where we could have done things better, however it has been a big learning experience for us. Once again, a big thank you to the community - we are humbled by your support and hope that we lived upto expectations!
Proceedings in all tracks have been recorded and will be uploaded on Youtube in a couple of weeks.
Kind Regards,
*Time Out Mumbai : "Home videos, audio recordings and Twitter feeds may
soon be cited in Wikipedia articles"*
http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/aroundtown/aroundtown_feature_details.asp?code…
*For much of the year, as they have been doing for centuries, many women in
South Africa’s Limpopo province sit around piles of ripe marula fruit,
peeling and preparing them to be turned into a variety of local liquor. But
if internet users search for information about amarula, the first mention
they will find is for a cream liqueur going by the same name that has been
aggressively marketed by a South African liquor company for the last two
decades. The age-old product made by the women of Limpopo can’t even have
its own Wikipedia page, because the free online encyclopaedia insists that
if articles are to be considered credible, written material must be cited.
Since the women use a recipe that has been handed down orally from
generation to generation, they have no texts to show as references.*
*
*
*The insistence on textual references deters Indian contributors from
helping to expand the online encyclopaedia, says Wikipedia advisory board
member Achal Prabhala. Wikipedia’s standards – which are designed to
maximise accuracy and veracity – make it difficult to create a page on
children’s games, temple rituals or marriage customs. But Prabhala has a
solution: he believes that the online encyclopaedia should allow oral
citations. He’ll make his case for this at the Wiki Conference to be held
this fortnight.*
*
*
*To demonstrate how this can be done, Prabhala made a film called People
Are Knowledge iin August. He and a team of Wikipedia editors travelled to
Limpopo, Bangalore and Kannur and made audio and video recordings of
interviews with people they met. They then created Wikipedia articles about
amarula, gilli-danda and a Kerala temple ritual, using these recorded
interviews as citations.*
*
*
*Prabhala’s work has resonated with Wikipedia editors like Andrew Lih, who
teaches journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and
Journalism and has written a book titled The Wikipedia Revolution. He first
got a sense that the standards of English Wikipedia could be an impediment
for Wikipedia users in other languages when he attended a Wikimedia
conference in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2008. He visited the city’s New Library
to see their efforts to scan Arabic language texts. “They said there was
not enough Arabic language source material on the Internet, so their
scanning effort was very important,” said Lih in an email interview. “We,
in English, German, French, have the first-world luxury of tons of source
materials from libraries, universities and cultural institutions that have
had decades to put content online,” said Lih.*
*
*
*When Lih learned of Prabhala’s project, he realised there was an
alternative to digitisation of reference material. “It meant that we could
depend a lot more on non-textual knowledge sources, and perhaps Wikipedians
should be front and centre in creating these, with story gathering efforts,
such as oral citations,” said Lih.*
*
*
*Since they are open to being edited by any user regardless of academic or
editorial background, Wikipedia’s articles have always faced derision. In
fact, maintaining a high standard is the reason Wikipedia only allows
published work to be used as citations. Prabhala said that the English
language Wikipedia started out with lax rules which made it easy for people
to contribute. “But as the English Wikipedias and the European language
Wikipedias grew bigger, people started focusing on quality instead of
growth,” he said. “The problem with that is when one extends Wikipedia into
parts of the world like India and South Africa, there simply isn’t as much
that is published.” In 2005, according to Prabhala’s Wiki research page,
one book was published in the UK per 372 people, while in India that ratio
was 1 book for 11,371 people.*
*
*
*Some people point out that the published texts aren’t necessarily
error-free. “Why is it always assumed that oral narratives or what people
have to say does not have as much importance or as much weight as the
written stuff?” asked Urvashi Butalia, who has collected oral histories
about the Partition for a book titled The Other Side of Silence. “Actually
both are rich and both are faulty.” Butalia gave the example of the book
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose. If
excerpts from that book were used as citations, she said, the Wikipedia
article on the Bangladesh war would be skewed in favour of the sources the
author has accessed. “An intelligent researcher looking at that might
think, is there another point of view and is there a way to track it down,”
she added.*
*
*
*Being able to accommodate varying perspectives is one of the best aspects
of Wikipedia, said Prabhala. “A Wikipedia article allows for multiple
perspectivesand we don’t want to forego that,” he said. However, to
maintain maximum accuracy and keep disputes to a minimum, Prabhala said
that he’s more interested in “oral presents” rather than “oral histories”.
“These are things that are seen and done by millions and millions of people
on a daily basis but do not have as much of a place in print,” said
Prabhala. The Limpopo women Prabhala interviewed are “probably the world
experts on the making of this liquor; as a housewife in Chennai would be on
a recipe for a chutney”, he said.*
*
*
*Though many users have supported the idea of oral citations idea, it has
also faced criticism. Said one Indian Wikipedia user on a mailing list:
“Now we can finally have those thousands of articles about cure-alls and
diet-pills, and penis-enlargement exercises, since the manufacturer’s own
research would satisfy those standards.” To maximise the credibility of
non-published citations, Lih suggests using video recordings. “It’s much
harder to ‘fake’ a video piece than an audio piece,” he said.*
*
*
*According to Prabhala, however, a credible oral citation could be “an
audio recording of an individual, a Twitter stream, a Facebook feed, a
television interview, a YouTube home video, a pamphlet, a folk archive, or
anything that is conversational in nature and not printed on paper by the
formal publishing industry”. Wikipedia users are now discussing how to
provide information on the interviewee and the interviewer so that the
reader can decide how much he or she wants to trust that oral citation.*
*
*
*Wikipedia will also have to start recognising more virtual sources like
social media for the online encyclopaedia to grow, said Lih. “I’ve made the
argument to the Wikimedia folks that they should look at social media sites
like Quora and LinkedIn, where you can flag content and recommend others to
participate,” said Lih. “Say you’re looking at a Wikipedia article that
needs work, and even if you don’t know how to fix it, you know the perfect
person who can. Right now there’s no easy way to tap folks to do this.” Lih
imagines a button or hook into Facebook where one could prod or invite
others to fix a Wikipedia article. “It seems only natural to take advantage
of this capability. It sure would be a much more useful thing than to
simply ‘poke’ someone,” he said.*
*
*
*Prabhala believes that adopting oral citations would be a more accurate
reflection of the state of knowledge in developing societies. “In general,
to think of the universe of knowledge not as a hierarchy but as a swirling
universe of surprising sources is, in my opinion, a more honest and more
useful way to approach the idea of knowledge on Wikipedia,” he said.*
*Achal Prabhala will make a presentation on oral citations at the Wiki
Conference to be held between Fri Nov 18 and Sun Nov 20. *
*
*
*
*
*Edit meeting*
*
*
*The three-day Wiki Conference is meant to give Wikipedia editors a chance
to meet in the real world – many of them are already well-connected in
cyberspace – to share their views, exchange tips and discuss the challenges
they face. Each day will start at about 8am; the first will begin with a
speech by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Three simultaneous streams of
events have been scheduled in three areas of the Mumbai University’s Fort
campus: the Convocation Hall and two Seminar Rooms. Some of the
presentations are about using Wikipedia as an educational tool in schools,
colleges and at the post-graduate level. Another presentation is about how
galleries, libraries, archives and museums can work with and benefit from
Wikipedia, while yet another will discuss the possibilities of the online
encyclopaedia helping visually-impaired people. *
*
*
*For an updated and detailed schedule of the conference, visit
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Programs. *
*
*
*To attend, register by visiting in.eregnow. com/ticketing/register/wci11
before Tue Nov 15 and paying Rs.1,550 per person. Only online payments will
be accepted. For more information, write to conference@ wikimedia.in.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
*Important Note :* The publisher ( Time Out Mumbai ) of the above news
article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not
reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared
only with an internal community who have been featured on this article.
All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
*Times of India : "Super 30 founder Anand Kumar to speak at 'Wiki' meet"*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Super-30-founder-Anand-Kumar-…
*Bihar's 'Super 30' founder Anand Kumar will speak during the
three-day-long 'Wiki Conference'at Mumbai University commencing from Friday.
*
*
*
*For the first time, 'Wikimedia Foundation' is organizing such a
conference in India. Wikipedia founder and head Jimmy Wales will also speak
at the conference.*
*
*
*The objective of the conference is to make Wikipedia a more powerful tool
in dissemination of information. A discussion on expansion of the online
Wikipedia encyclopedia to include various Indian languages under its domain
will also be taken up for discussion.*
*
*
*Hundreds of volunteers, willing to work for Wikipedia, are also scheduled
to participate in the conference.*
*
*
*"I shall speak on ways to make Wikipedia more effective in its reach and
benefits to the users. I shall also try to explore the ways in which
Wikipedia can become more beneficial to students hailing from humble
background," Anand told TOI.*
*
*
*Vishal Mahajan, an organizing committee member, said Anand was chosen to
speak at the meet as both he and Wikipedia had similar objectives.*
*
*
*"Just as Wikipedia believes in free dissemination of information, Anand
believes in providing free coaching to students from poor families," said
Mahajan.*
*
*
*"Dissemination of information, especially education-related, through
Wikipedia will become easier and faster if both Anand and Wikipedia work
together," Mahajan added.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article
owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not
reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared
only with an internal community who have been featured on this article.
All copyrights are duly acknowledged.