Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 281, Issue 1

Hi, On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > Hi Dwaipayan C, > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti < > dwaipayanc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Whatever has happened, do we have any other editor who is somewhat >> experienced and willing to take the responsibility of the coordinator of >> the weekly collaboration? >> >> There is not many nominations in the page. Although "The Special User" >> could be a good coordinator, apparently he is taking a wiki break. And the >> other candidate, Kruttika, I feel does not have enough experience in >> en.wikipedia. >> > > I was thinking if both of them can work together as Coordinator and > c-coordinator???? Fine? On the process, Krutikka would also learn, and > yeah, TheSpecialUser looks for me as the best candidate. > > > Thanks! > >> >> Anyone else interested? >> >> Regards, >> >> Dwaipayan Chakraborti >> >> On Sep 29, 2012, at 8:00 AM, >> wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: >> >> > Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to >> > wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > >> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> > wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > >> > You can reach the person managing the list at >> > wikimediaindia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > >> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." >> > >> > >> > Today's Topics: >> > >> > 1. Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer >> > co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM (Ravishankar) >> > 2. Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer >> > co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM (Vikram Vincent) >> > 3. Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer >> > co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM (Pratik Lahoti) >> > 4. Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer >> > co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM (Ravishankar) >> > 5. Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the post of volunteer >> > co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM (Ravishankar) >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > Message: 1 >> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:29:36 +0530 >> > From: Ravishankar &lt;ravidreams(a)gmail.com&gt; >> > To: Wikimedia India Community list >> > &lt;wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; >> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Resigning from the >> > post of volunteer co-ordinator of WP:INCOTM >> > Message-ID: >> > &lt;CAF2QyrCj-02+oCbY9Rmk+zhGW5pvDXRrTQEQ-yPLscEi8hRocA(a)mail.gmail.com >> > >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> > >> > Hi Hari, Arun, Pratik, Srikanth, Karthik, >> > >> > Similar to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM/project, we >> > run a project in Tamil Wikipedia called Colloboration of the Week. I >> was >> > co-ordinating it for few months. When I got busy, I intentionally let >> it >> > unupdated for a week to see it picked up by another Wikipedian. He was >> > also the guy most involved in this project from the beginning. I asked >> him >> > if he is willing to take the responsibility and he said yes. That's >> it. I >> > have seen many such smooth handovers for various jobs done in our >> Wikipedia. >> > >> > In this context, I was surprised why Pratik calls this a "post" and >> had to >> > send a "resignation note" to the larger mailing list and open >> "nominations" >> > for successors. May be it is En Wiki practice but I found this too >> > complicated for a simple situation. >> > >> > If one cannot find a suitable coordinator from the members of the >> project >> > listed at >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM/Members >> > >> > I wonder how a newcomer to the project will be fit to coordinate it. >> > >> > This is a regular Wikipedia activity which is best managed within talk >> > pages and project noticeboards. This isn't a photo walk or a Wiki >> workshop >> > to hope if more people can join us through mailing lists. Even if you >> go by >> > that logic, if every regional Wikipedia starts mailing this list for >> > coordinating on wiki tasks, then it will be total mess. >> > >> > I respect every one's opinion that mails like these are within the >> scope of >> > this list. If I continue to find such mails, I will simply unsubscribe >> :) >> > >> > Ravi >> >