Hi
Just to update this list, simple wiki community has opposed this. The current votes stand at 6 opposes and 3 support with 1 editor waiting to confirm his vote.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_talk#Agreement
I had a good conversation about this yesterday with Frank on wiki and Rob on IRC. I trust and respect Frank - he knows the education program and the community better than anyone. I got a different impression from them, they seemed open to working on this and coming up with a good solution agreeable to all parties- like this wasn't a done deal. I trust both of them will do the right thing in the interest of the community.
I did however get a different impression from reading the most recent comments in Nitika's table on Wiki. So, I would like to state this - I consider myself part of simple wiki community, I have edited there for a while last year and know a few of the editors. I will not let this be pushed without their support and approval. There has been a few ideas kicking around Meta, a cross-wiki arbcom has been discussed for a while. If need be I will create it on Meta or locally, or find another way, just to deny this being pushed and not let the community be undermined.
I greatly respect Frank and know he will not let it come down to that, but just in case anyone on the india side thinks, this will happen without the community on simple wiki - they would be wrong. They have to convince the simple wiki community first, they will not be circumvented.
Regards
Theo
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
<parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
Ravi, the Simple English wikipedia has one of the lowest visibility
rates for a Wikipedia, atleast to Indian readers, from my experience.
As Theo stated, if anyone screws up, there will be noone to complain
or monitor it. Maybe then, they'd call it a success. I think I should
start there now.
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.