On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com wrote:
The former Indian Wikimedia office was burnt out precisely because of this negative approach from the community.
Can you explain this ? I found this is a baseless allegation
In my observation following 2 major factors resulted in the failure India program and restructuring/ handing over project to CIS .
1. Failure of Pune Pilot (There was no role for community in this process . It was gigantic , There was not enough Wikipedia exposure for consultants. Program plan failed in addressing copyvios , windup /stopping plan of pune pilot was not well planned and communicated like "do not edit wikipedia anymore")
2. Unwanted time and efforts on building a third entity "Wikimedia India Program Trust" on a legal safe distance from Wikimedia foundation and wikimedia chapter . Now this is dumped.
Please substantiate your allegations on community else withdraw it .
~ regards Anivar