Hello Dhaval and others,

I have no affiliation with the WMF and the WMF speaks for itself. I am a member of Wikimedia New York City but cannot speak on behalf of any organization.

Of course Dhaval is joking a bit. I do encourage the Gujarati and all Indian Wikimedia communities to apply for more grants, and if anyone does this, feel free to email me or message my bluerasberry meta or English page and I will comment on the proposal. I am not sure of the best way to build community in India but I do wish that contributors in India would do more to reach out to Wikipedians in other countries. Poor Asaf has to manage the entire world and of course there is no way he is able to read everything and respond to everyone. He can answer you as he wishes but I feel that Wikipedians everywhere should try to take their concerns to other volunteers and especially other chapters, and not entirely to the WMF. If Indian projects get the approval of other Wikimedia chapters then I assure you that will make those projects more persuasive to grant reviewing committees, and in general, the more friends anyone has in more community volunteer groups the more luck you will have.

Also, if anyone wants to talk to me by phone or Skype feel free to email me and make an appointment. I live in New York and will make arrangements to talk in during Indian day time as I can.

yours,


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ravi for making us aware that WMF is happily funding content generation (or in nicer term Content upload) as Asaf from WMF and User Blue Rasberry have suggested. This is a great news for my Gujarati wikisource community, whom I am including in this reply.

Dear Gujarati Wiki Community,

Please visit the link in below email, where Wikimedia Foundation (shortly known as WMF) is suggesting that they are funding (in simpler term paying) for content upload. This is the task that we all are doing free of cost so far. Because you have uploaded hundreds (may be thousands) of pages so far as we have created 50+ books on gu.wikisource, all our efforts will be paid now by WMF (in fact should have been paid so far as well). If you have any doubt, reach out to User:Bluerasberry and User:Ijon on meta (meta.wikimedia.org). Asaf (User:Ijon) clearly suggests that Bots are under the paid activity considered by WMF.


Get as much benefit you get of WMF's this offer. 

Hi Asaf,

Can the  community claim back the money that would have hypothetically been paid to if they applied for the grant before they started uploading the content of rare literature?


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Poor volunteers of the global Wikisource communities,

Don't waste your time typing text. Get paid or hire staff to do the work.

For more details, see
Ravi

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