Fact: Chapter membership was open for all on last day of WCI 2011. Anyone who wished to become a member could by filling up a form and paying the fees.
If this was done in Mumbai, why not allow it in Kolkata? I think there needs to be a uniform policy behind this - either its open to all at all our events across the country or its not.
Kind Regards,
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:14:34 +0530 From: parakara.ghoda@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.
I agree with Srikanth. Some people with vested interests may want to join ...-+-~~~~ On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:39, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
1) On-spot India Chapter membership for visitors if they wish. Was : Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'
I think we are going for numbers game here. Whats the point of on-spot membership? Seriously, does having 50,000 chapter members do any great thing for Wikipedia? I seriously fail to understand (in the past, future), what can the chapter do with just so many members who do not have an idea about Wikipedia community and many of whom may not go beyond attending meetups and conferences.
Sorry if am sound odd here, I just dont like this part of chapter, where the chapter instead of instilling confidence in community and making them members, chooses people who attend a meetup / conference / stall to become its members.(In many cases makes someone member of chapter without having a clue about it. I personally know this since my friend who happen to accompany me to a meetup, just because he had nothing else to spend time is a chapter member now) I do not mean any offense to any of those who sign up(they may be genuinely interested, good guys), but just fail to understand what we are trying to achieve with chapter membership numbers.