This is little strange, I can understand that voting and nominations are members only regime but why the community is not allowed to participate even in Q&A is not clear to me.

If it is so, there should be no wiki page or onwiki discussion, or login process on wikimedia.in should be membership number based.

On 5 Nov 2014 18:16, "Anivar Aravind" <anivar.aravind@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Srikanth,

This is just trash . Ignore it .
Engagement with WMIN Election process is limited to Chapter members  and mentioning membership No is mandatory for Q&A page . As per Elecom informed , non members cannot be allowed to engage with Election process. It is mentioned clearly in the page.
Any questions without membership no will be reverted .

~ regards
Anivar


On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:

I've got this mail six times in bcc.
Please look into it.
Any more mails of this nature will go into my trash bin.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "IAC techs" <iac.techs@gmail.com>
Date: 05-Nov-2014 10:50 pm
Subject: Grossly Obscene pornographic images on WIKIMEDIA.IN
To: <yogesh_khandke@yahoo.com>, <nethahussain@gmail.com>
Cc:

REBLOGGED BY IACTECHS@GMAIL.COM on behalf of India Against
Corruption's members who are users / editors of Wikipedia community

This is a protest circulated against the strange decision by Anivar
Aravind to hastily close the Q&A session for candidates after IAC
poses uncomfortable queries from the "community"

To: nethahussain@gmail.com,  and other candidates and WMIN members.

We notice that you are a member of the WIKIMEDIA.IN website and
actively promoting LGBT issues there including for your election
campaign.

We suppose you know that at the present time "carnal intercourse
against the order of nature" is against India's laws, and distributing
grossly obscene / pornographic images of it via WIKIMEDIA.IN is a
serious criminal offence which IAC has reported to the concerned
agencies and is seriously prosecuting. IAC is also monitoring
WIKIMEDIA.IN to assist law enforcement agencies.

This email is being sent to you as the illegally appointed returning
officer Anivar Aravind has deleted IAC's query for all candidates for
the WMIN EC vacancies (which was publicly posted to WIKIMEDIA.IN by
one of IAC's volunteers as a member of the "community").

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/Nominations/Q%26A

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Elections2014%2FNominations%2FQ%26A&action=historysubmit&diff=35158&oldid=35146

PS: And another editor was banned from WIKIMEDIA.IN for asking queries
on racism and discrimination against Indians at WIKIPEDIA, again by
Anivar who also refuses to publish the non-existent Karnataka Society
Rule 1961 to prevent community members posing queries (which actual
official rules can be accessed here)

https://www.karnataka.gov.in/karigr/actsrules/karnatakasocietiesact.htm

from which it is abundantly clear that you are ineligible to contest
elections and Anivar cannot conduct it.

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