All
A fence sitter here, and a South Indian.. a mallu to the core.. :)
Mayur, Vibhi and all out there, here I am talking from very much of an
outsider perspective.
I would agree to the point that Mayur has made about having an
un-intentional bias which would creep in. Honestly that might happen with
any organisation/movement and WM is also not immune to that. Having said
that, I am proud to be part of this movement and I would not have stayed
here as part of the movement if I noticed something like such a bias
anywhere in the activity. And I can say that with much more conviction than
most of the volunteers who contributes to wikimedia and threads into this
mailing list esp. since as I said at the start of the note that I am a fence
sitter. The ones like me would be the one to notice such bias the moment it
crops up in the thread or movement.
Sadly, I feel that north-south divide and bias was noticed in the note from
Vibhi, and me being fence sitter immediately noticed that and has forced me
to write this note...!!! Taking names additionally do not add anything
positive to that feeling.
We are one, and we should be one, contributing to each other, and only then
this would grow and attain the heights and standards which is there for us
to capture.
Let us put it this way, if the Delhi wikipedians feel that there is a need
to create a new chapter, and there are enough volunteers to back the
proposal, we can go ahead with the proposal and guide it to the logical
conclusion.
Just for the sake of having one, there is no point in setting up one. It
would only lead to an eventual death and a more painful one for all the
volunteers, pan india.
If such a chapter shortens the way for the exponential growth of WM in the
country and esp in a metro like Delhi, all of us are game for it. I hope
that is what all would be feeling.
Regards
Abhi
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:32 PM, mayur <mayurdce(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
In reply to above posts i want to make one point clear that I
agreed to create a new chapter in Delhi with Vibhijain but that is just a
proposal and this will be done if we get atleast 20 Participants. Two
options are better than one.As of now we Observed that whole Wikimedia and
Chapter Activities are Concentrated towards South India.New Delhi is one of
the biggest Educational City of India and it should be our Target.But as
most of the Volunteers in India Chapter are from South India so its
difficult for them to communicate and make awareness regarding Wiki culture
in North India Portion.Wikimedia Delhi Chapter will build and unite a
Healthy North Indian Wiki Community.But its doesn't mean that we are
different and our goals are different, its just about to shorten your
way.Whether the new chapter request is approved or not,I assured you all
that we will work Unitedly.
With Regards
Mayur
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You are not articulating your position quite well
here. There already is a
national chapter. Sub-national chapters aren't very common.
Can someone else from your supporters speak up? Mayur, are you reading
this? I left a message on your page on hi.wiki about his wikimania bid a
couple of weeks ago.
As I recall vibhi, you also applied for the Grant Advisory committee [1]
along with several other people, either way, I assure you committee seat is
not a criteria for chapter formation.
Salmaan
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Call_For_Volunteers
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Vibhi Jain <vibhijain(a)yahoo.in> wrote:
Well I have placed the chapter request with a lot
of discussion with
Mayur, a member of the Grand Advisory Committee. We have the support of
many hindi wikipedians including two crats, Mayur and Ashish. And we will
soon get the support from more 20 wikipedians. Wikimedia India chapter is
mainly Concentrated toward South Indian Languages, New Chapter in New delhi
will help make a good community in India. Well Tinu, you are right, you
don't need more organisations, but we need. Well, 10-20 people interested
are needed for a chapter, lets see, if we gets them, then only we will
proceed.
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