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_i…
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_Progr…
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(a)gmail.com>
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
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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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