Hi Ravi, I was silently watching this debate and didn't want to join it for many reasons, but some of your "assumptions" force me to jump in,

On 9 Feb 2013 04:48, "Ravishankar" <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> My best wishes for the new A2K team.
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> A sincere request to all Indian Wikimedians:
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> CIS has been given a grant by WMF. Let CIS do their job in peace and let them be answerable to the grant review committee.
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> Just because they are located in India and working on Indian Wikimedia projects, I don't think they need to answer every question from the community. Especially, hiring related questions and when they are yet to start work.

Can you please provide base for your this declaration? When it was Boforse scan or Lalu Prasad Yadav's "Chara Ghotala" and "Gobar Scam" did we say, "come on you Indians, keep your mouth shut, because the money involved is foreign currency"? I think we didn't. Then why now?

> The former Indian Wikimedia office was burnt out precisely because of this negative approach from the community.

Can you please shed some more light on this alligation? This is utter alligation on the wjoke Indian wiki community. I (only on my behalf) will need a clarification based on facts and evidences. Please remember that wikipedia also doesn't approve text/edits without refrrences. I hope you would be active on one of the wikis, so need not to explain what reference is.

> If the community needs to strengthen the movement, either work on your own language Wikimedia projects or join the India Wikimedia chapter and take it forward.

Why? Why only 2 options? How many of the IP or A2K team members are active on their respective language wilipedia?  Upto what extent? Are there others on those language wikipedia with more edits and more regular presence? These are the questions one should ask his/her self before making such statements. I don't need answers on these.

> Ravi

Thank you for nice baseless blame on me (as i m part of the community)

Dhaval