Hi All,

Don't know whether it is only me, does anybody else here also feels that there is a rush in somehow spend money, or should I say blow up money, or rather "meet the target spend"?

For example this consultation is being planned, there is a Wikisource meet in Ahmedabad being planned, all at very short notice and without any substantial groundwork. Any consultation or meet needs a planning of at least a couple of months, especially if you're targeting pan India participation. Booking train/flight tickets with just 2-3 weeks notice will not be expensive?

Could these things not be organised later in the year giving more time to the communities to consult and organisers to prepare themselves? Or is it just because there is a 31st March deadline to utilise the budget which remained unspent till date?

If we do the so called Gujarati Wikisource Meet aka Workshop in 2 weeks, what level of participation are we expecting? What is the expected outcome?

At least these 2 things certainly make me think that there is sone Rush in spending money.

Regards,

Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, 08:54 Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Gopala,

I really admire this initiative though doesn’t understand the criteria of how you people are selecting 20 participants? and some of extent agrees with Abhinav of inviting the subsequent participant by the order of rank or inviting some senior community members as it will be helpful for community consultation program.

Hoping a successful event and feeling pride to be a contributor for the same.

Best Regards,

Rajeeb Dutta.

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On 15-Feb-2019, at 1:05 PM, Abhinav srivastava <abhinav619@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Gopal, 

The final result of the Project Tiger has a highly volatile result, some communities have done remarkably well in terms of metrics while some haven’t. The idea of giving preference to women participants is a welcome step. 

However, why the idea of inviting jury? The role of jury in this exercise was narrow, limited and not even inviting any hard decisions. It is my personal observation that inviting the subsequent participant by the order of rank or inviting some senior community member with community consensus could be a better idea. 

Perhaps, the jury who worked on computer and internet scholarship could be invited.

Abhinav

On Friday, 15 February 2019, Gopala Krishna A <gopala@cis-india.org> wrote:

Hello,

I would like to give an update regarding this. In this event we are expecting total 20 participants. So far only 10 people confirmed their participation.

From each community we are inviting two participants. Those two participants are the top three performers (Indians Wikipedians) of Project tiger edit-a-thon 2018. We are planning to invite jury members where ever top contributors of the highest performed language can not attend. Also, we are giving preference to women participants.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:13 PM Gopala Krishna A <bhat.gka666@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mourya,

Yes. We invited active participants (Indians) of Project Tiger Edit-a-thon 2018 from all participated communities.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:05 PM Mourya Biswas <mourya.biswas@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you very much. I hope some of the active participants from the last year's editathon, of Bengali community will be invited.

Warmest regards

Mourya Biswas "মৌর্য্য বিশ্বাস"

Phone: +91-8184877240

Wikimedia address : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mouryan

Twitter : @themouryan

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 13:46, Tito Dutta <trulytito@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Greetings from CIS-A2K team, We're planning to conduct a community consultation program for Project Tiger. The objectives of this consultation program are:

• Revisiting the Project Tiger 2018; Strength and Challenges
• Discussion on the coming iteration of Project Tiger.
• Project Tiger contributors meet & greet.

The event will take place on 2-3 March 2019, and the event place will be announced shortly. Please see the event page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Community_Consultation

We will be inviting the participants from different Indian community based on their contribution in the Project Tiger 2018 edit-a-thon.

Thanks

Tito Dutta

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