Praveen,
Forgot to answer one of your questions:
Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there must be voting system. So not worry!!
Then what was the criteria?
While there's no hard criteria that I can give, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_future_chapters#Contributor_in... gives the guidelines: As specified in the requirements, involvement of contributors to the Wikimedia projects is essential to the grounding of a chapter. However, it is crucial that each chapter remains an entity separate from the Wikimedia projects. Chapters are independent organisations that group users of the Wikimedia projects, regardless of their number of edits or roles within the projects, as well as friends and supporters of those projects. Founding a chapter with "all the admins" in the projects, or "only active contributors" is the wrong way to go. It is possible that people who are not active contributors will be interested in the real life commitment to the Wikimedia movement that chapters enable, while others who are active contributors will not see the necessity for a chapter. Make sure the balance is kept between who is part of the chapter and who is not. The Wikimedia projects are not the chapter's playground and the chapter should never confer to its members a position of specific power within a Wikimedia project.
I think there was a discussion on this earlier and Achal or someone gave a history of how the people came together for this. If anyone can locate the thread on the list archives, please share. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India_chapter#Background_and_Progre... captures parts of it (and the earlier unsuccessful attempts).
- 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: praveenp me.praveen@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 3:36:41 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:56 AM, jayanta nath wrote:
Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there must be voting system. So not worry!!
Then what was the criteria?
On Sunday 30 January 2011 01:03 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
Can you please put up your ideas and give some examples so that people here will get some more clarity.
As you mentioned, things are "fair but not enough" please put up your ideas so that things will be "enough and more"
I feel I am keeping myself here without any bruises, even against chapter members, challenging their credibility and ability. For me it is good; but for a community it is bad. That explains a lot. :-( (BTW where is president and some other members of chapter? are they members of this list?)
I rmember I asked about chapter's future plans in one of the other threads, but still no answer. Is there any basic ideas about future activities? Where I can find them? May I know, whether asking idea is the basic idea? :) (I dont think it is bad, but a chapter need atleast basic line up. don't give MoA link, I've seen it many times :D)
For eg, in commons many images originated from India are deleted or waiting to get deleted, just because no source available saying it is in PD. Chapter can initiate a project to find PD images from India. Any member can find many such issues, if they are wiki-rooted.
I didn't said I am an 'idea'(l) man. I tried to say, lack of openness of chapter, non-supportive character and credibility doubts of members of chapter. (I got one more, I think.)
For now I said enough. I don't want to start this from very beginning again. I hope "chapter" will take appropriate measures to erase any doubts of users.
Thank you.
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