Dear Krishna,

We have taken due note of your considerations and removed your name from the report[1]. It was only written in good faith since you were then, a very active Executive Committee member & were communicating with The Wikipedia Library Team on Economic & Political Weekly Partnership [2], which was a Chapter initiative, where you discussed in person about it at Wikimania 2018. 

Regards, 
Yohann Thomas 
Wikimedia India 



[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July-September_2018#Wikimania_2018

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/KCVelaga/Wikimania/2018/Report

On Sun, 14 Apr, 2019, 00:34 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, <kcvelaga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Yohann,

Thanks for sharing these reports. Of the several confusions that these reports pose, I would like to stress on this section; http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July-September_2018#Wikimania_2018.

Several community members, for more than eight months, have been asking about WMIN's President participation at Wikimania 2018. Till date, we haven't heard anything from the President. Being a former EC member, I understand that you (on behalf of the EC and the Chapter) can answer these questions. But considering the gravity of the situation, it would be better if the President of WMIN, as a responsible leader of Wikimedia India, can answer these questions personally on the respective thread.

... and most importantly, the report says "Three executive committee members attended the Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Rahul Deshmukh, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and Viswanathan Prabhakaran. Several programs were hosted by Wikimedia India EC members"

**I completely object this**

Though I am not sure of Viswa, I can 100% say that I had purely attended Wikimania 2018 as an independent volunteer, irrespective of my affiliation with WMIN. Even when I applied for the scholarship, I never mentioned about work as a WMIN EC member (as of July 2018). I would like to highlight the fact that Wikimania is purely is user (volunteer) level conference, whereas Wikimedia Summit/Conference is an affiliate-level conference. It is very disappointing to see that WMIN hasn't observed any difference between them. 

Again I would like to stress on "Several programs were hosted by Wikimedia India EC members" I consciously neither conducted any activities as a WMIN EC member at Wikimania, nor was I invited to any such discussion (considering the fact that I was an "active" EC member as of July 2018). But publishing such reports even after resigning as an EC member; I feel it as a threat to my identity.

The section also says that AffCom members are in without much experience "The framework does not answer the "who?" question. AffCom? But AffCom can take the affiliate status away and its members are volunteers, probably without much experience in this field." I would like to hear more explanation on this.

Several such things remain unclear and disappointing to me. I'll detail upon them once I hear a response from WMIN about the raised issues, and also its President on the other thread, at the earliest possible.

-Krishna C V.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:30 PM Yohann Thomas <yohannvt@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,

Wikimedia India is happy to report its annual activities undertaken in the previous financial year 2018-19, beginning 1st April , 2018 until 31st March 2019. All activities undertaken have been self-financed by different Wikimedia India members either individually or collectively and not a single penny of community funds have been spent on conducting any programmatic activity.
No Wikimedia Foundation Grants like Rapid Grant, Project Grant etc have been applied & by following with the real Wikimedia Culture,  all Wikimedia India members in their individual capacity have taken to finance India Chapter Activities for Capacity Developments, Awareness, Partnerships, etc.
 
As you all are aware, Wikimedia India continues to undergo a financial crisis because it cannot receive any funding [1] from its primary donor Wikimedia Foundation(USA). However, Wikimedia India continues to do whatever it can, with its current constraints, to take the Wikimedia movement forward in India.
 
Wikimedia India looks forward to the community review on its activities hosted and more importantly on expectations from the larger community, and suggestions on how they want Wikimedia India to perform this financial year, holding that funding's may remain frozen.
 
Key Points
  • Facilitated first-ever Library Partnership in India with Sameeksha Trust Journal, Economic & Political Weekly under The Wikipedia Library.  
  • Partnered on several Wikimedia Global Programs in India such as WikiGap, Wiki Asian Month etc.
  •  Continued hosting several Wikimedia India programs such as WikiAcademy, Wikimedia India Events, Featured Wikimedian of The Month.
  • Continued working along with CIS-A2K on different projects and most importantly on Project Tiger, a joint initiative between Wikimedia India and CIS-A2K. [2]
Quarterly Reports


 

Events

 

Thanks,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

[1] Foreign Currency (Regulation) Act, 1960 compliance do not permit India Chapter to receive money from its primary fiscal sponsor, Wikimedia Foundation.[
2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program
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