Dear Praveen,
Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:
I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6 years, though recently
I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My username on either wikis is
'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki and an admin in the English Wiki. My
edit contributions are at
http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=… and
http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=…
Besides these, I wrote a bot for exporting over 1 lakh dictionary entries to Tamil
Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I have also participated in several
outreach efforts and volunteered with MediaWiki localisation. I presented a paper at
Wikimania 2009. (
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217 )
As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email outlining the process. For
now, you can check the post by HPN at
http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563
Regards,
Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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From: Praveen Prakash <me.praveen(a)gmail.com>
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 3:24:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter
I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.
But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a
community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing
list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i
missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a
special chapter for wikimedia English projects?
I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
linkedin (
http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba).
He is also being CEO,
Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I
don't have any problem about that). I am thinking about that election
process and members. I am sorry but
frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If possible introduce
them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community about any
further steps.
If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll
be more happy.
PraveenP
Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
Dear all,
As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft
Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has
been put up on Meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA
Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better
part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for
improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions
on the relevant talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.
However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important
that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made
on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us maintain
the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.
People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming
the India chapter may find my blog post on it,
http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting
read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.
Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the
MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.
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