On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Shahid Akhtar <mohd.shahid_akhtar@rediffmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash <me.praveen@gmail.com> wrote:

K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar?  What was the election process & criteria? How many people involved in that? Why all these process were hidden? Why even Hindi not informed?
This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more inclusive and transparent!

I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of all the people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not be a bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian media without having made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia.

Wikimedia India will receive thousands of rupees in donations. We need trusted people who are representative of the pan-India Wikipedia community to handle it.

If this is a group of people who are meeting in Bangalore for wining and dining, this should be named "Wikimedia Bangalore" chapter, not "Wikipedia INDIA" chapter!

*My Few paisas.*

As to my understanding after reading the MoA, there are no special privileges to founding members apart from not requiring to "apply for membership".[Authors can clarify if my understanding is not right] I suppose there would be an election after the formation and only the elected persons will have additional privileges than a normal member. So in that sense, who starts it really doesn't matter.

I dont know why people are cribbing its secret / closed group when meta was up all the while. Did anyone make a point to edit any of the meta pages and was it left undiscussed / discarded? No one stopped anyone from doing that.

Trust is not measured in terms of edit count.Showing up on the day and commitment in real world is also required and I guess the people who signed the MoA did that. I agree with pan-India comment but again elections would happen I guess and as i already mentioned "founding members" dont get any extra privileges. Probably some clause can be added to include regional / linugual EC members.I would add that right away to discussion page.

Sorry i take the wine and dine comment too seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL is not about wine and dine. Please go through the pages to see what was going on the meetings.

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Srikanth.L
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