Dear Sudhanwa,
As the founder of The Heritage Lab, your email came across as very amusing to me.
Allow me to elaborate -- in the "heritage labs" (gosh, I wish you would get the name right at least) - we don't "build heritage". Actually heritage refers to something we "inherit". What we do is create ways for people to access and engage with that inheritance, specifically cultural inheritance.
I would normally pass off your response as a very typical 'troll-behaviour' one, and ignore it -- but you're a member of the Wiki community and I find it important therefore to urge you to understand terms such as *post-colonial and post-independence*. The post-colonial period typically begins with independence but the challenges and issues faced by India in these phases can be distinct -- post colonialism often involves addressing the specific legacies of colonialism (ones that we continue to suffer today).
I'm usually up for a debate - but why I find your response to be typical of "Troll behaviour" is that *your comment lacks any research on our work *-- you simply tried to discredit us and "rant". When you use words like "seems like" -- you make it very clear that you could not be bothered enough to check the link and understand if we have at all covered ancient India / or other "thousands of years of history, culture and heritage" in other ways. If you had indeed bothered, you would probably come across some interesting stories - like one about a 2000 year old artefact clicked by a Wiki-community member during our campaign last year.
*What I find shameful *about this entire exchange is that you, a Wikipedian -- who is meant to check for reliable citations before editing a Wiki page and is meant to gather information in an appropriate manner in order to spread knowledge, couldn't even cross check before writing an email to the entire list.
I wish you better mental health and positivity this festive season. There is enough hatred in this world and we don't need more of this behaviour.
Thanks, anyway. Medhavi
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I am wondering what kind of heritage these people are building in heritage labs!!
Even the theme says post colonial India!!
Looks like they have nothing to do with our history, culture, heritage of thousands of years.
Probably, they still want to remain in the colonial India heritage. That can't even say post independence activities.
Shameful. And Wikipedia is supporting it in the name of spreading knowledge!!
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 8:22 AM Satdeep Gill satdeepgill@gmail.com wrote:
*Forwarding the following message on behalf of Arunesh Varade, The Heritage Lab*
Hello everyone,
The Heritage Lab https://www.theheritagelab.in/culture-events/ is organizing two Wiki contests <
https://www.theheritagelab.in/world-heritage-week-contest-monuments-museums/... in
the month of November on the occasion of World Heritage Week and Wiki
Asian
Month.
First contest is an edit-a-thon where open access content from GLAMs
would
be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons with relevant data to improve the accessibility of these images.
The second contest is where people can share the stories of visiting museums. It can be a photo essay, illustration, etc. The submissions in this contest will be uploaded on Commons and the best entries from them will be rewarded.
We have exciting prizes for the winners so we look forward to your active participation in both these events.
Further, we have also opened applications for the second edition of Open Knowledge Fellowship https://www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowledge-museums-india/ where we host a cohort of fellows to research and create new knowledge about
Indian
art and cultural heritage and contribute the same to Wikimedia projects.
Please pass on the word to the people who would be interested in being a part of this.
Thanks and Regards, Arunesh Varade on behalf of The Heritage Lab _______________________________________________ WikimediaIndia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to
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