On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian@gmail.com> wrote:

Salmanji,
Please don't take it personally either... we are not "competing" for the cities.. :)
Do note that the journo is from a Bangalore edition newspaper, so obviously will highlight the "Bangalore part". :)
The journo asked about what are the "chances" for Bangalore, I said my personal opinions. She asked her "other contacts" in other cities too.. I also stressed the fact that it is upto the Foundation to decide where this has to be ( which wasn't mentioned in the article).

What matters is not where the foundatation office is set up, what is important is to grow the wiki-community and culture in every corner of the country.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 <de10011@gmail.com> wrote:
I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community.

lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt get that impression so far.

Regards

Salmaan

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead@wikimedia.org> wrote:

So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She left out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled the theme of the story. ;-)

3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital in India?

We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We hope that every city and town will be a wiki-capital.

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-Wikicapital-communities.htm

:-)

If Priyanka Prachad has been quoted right, I'll have to say it is rather unfair to say that "Bangalore has tiny forums and Mumbai has none". There are strong communities from out of Bangalore. Shouldn't need to add that Mumbai has equally strong communities as well.

There is diverse language community thriving on Internet from Bangalore.

In fact, a community in the local language that I personally maintain (http://sampada.net) started in 2005 has had regular stream of increasing users all these years. And there are strong communities like Praja (http://praja.in), Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in), India Water Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org/) and many more from Bangalore... the list is huge.
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