I have responded to the question posed on the talk page [1].  For those interested in this issue, please join the discussion there.  One of the big points of feedback from the en:wp community is that too much discussion happens in places like mailing lists and wikis outside of WP where few Wikipedians engage. We are responding to this feedback by centering discussions in open places on WP (while not ignoring the lists by any means).

Best,
Barry

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read#Question_to_Barry

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Theo10011 <de10011@gmail.com> wrote:
I see Tory responding to end her engagement on the issue, 2-4 days after she started responding on the talk page. I see a total of 4 edits from her this month, on the issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read

I left a question for Barry mostly, on the talk page. Do you think it was the right decision to have Tory do this report? If you recall, I mentioned why you didn't chose a community member or even an Indian to do the report about shortcomings of the education program for India? maybe in addition to Tory?

This was what I tried to allude to earlier- consultants, employees, generally people with paid engagement for a topic, leave after the said term of their engagement. They can not provide the ongoing discussion and engagement a community member can. 

I brought this exact issue up when this was first announced.

Regards
Theo


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI:

Discussions on talk pages


Yours sincerely,

Anirudh Bhati

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Hisham <hisham@wikimedia.org> wrote:


On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:10 AM, sankarshan wrote:

Is the planned schedule/calendar for the IEP available ? One that puts
dates to specific phases of the exercise.


Not currently, Sankarshan.  Once we start the work of designing a new pilot - taking into account the learnings from the Pune Pilot.  This will have detailed schedule calendar.

hisham

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