Dear All , I stopped responding to praveen long back in all social media platforms and blocked him from my contact lists . I do support pseudo anonymity as political right , But I dont want to entertain his baseless allegations and abuses Since this is a response to Election committee mail , I am responding inline On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:29 PM, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote: Please ask Chapter .Announcement mail is linked at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014 page I think praveen is referring my efforts to interface between the FOSS developer way of decision making and Wikimedia community way. This post summarizes it http://www.quora.com/Why-was-ULS-forced-on-reluctant-language-wikipedias-wi… various community issues around technology decision making such as ULS is also part of discussions in India Community Consultation as well . But personalizing issues and building and spreading personal animosity around technology opinions is a nonconstructive attitude of this identity for long . So I am not engaging with him further on this off-topic conversation . I hope moderators will take a note on this ~ regards Anivar Aravind

Was not it only an "announcement"? On 14 October 2014 22:18, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Praveenp, With all due respects to you as one of the most contributing and persistent Wikipedian (I must say probably the staunchest of the backbones of Malayalam Wikipedia), I must now respond here as a member of the WMIN Executive Committee, a colleague at ml.wikipedia as well as a good friend of both of you.. Despite whatever personal issues between you and Anivar, I can vouch that Anivar too have been contributing to the Wikimedia causes in his own ways for some time now. You may not see it through the number of edits or such statistics, but his timely involvement in many events and projects have also helped Malayalam Wikisource to stand where it is now. Apart from that, he has been taking an active and serious interest in the Chapter's mission. Anivar, Pavithra and DB Srinivasa Rao were selected as the Election Committee (EleCom) via a very proper protocol by the Executive Committee. *It was the EC who solicited their help and willingness to be members of the Election Committee at a time when few were even willing to be members of the chapter.* Their selection as Election Committee was done even much before the new (restructured) EC came into form. The then EC had unanimously passed the resolution to appoint the EleCom without any conflicts among themselves. As far as the Wikimedia India Chapter is concerned, our interest in people's individual issues and relations are clearly limited to the Chapter's affairs. As I see it, being a member of the EleCom has nothing much to do with how one may be active or inactive in a rather unrelated domain, as long as one delivers the performance assumed and expected of his capacity in the right degree. I sincerely believe that the history of piques between you and Anivar has nothing to do with the conducting of WMIN elections in a free and fair manner. The Chapter would rather concentrate on much more pressing tasks for which our resources are still running bit of a short as of now. It is embarrassing to have to respond to such messages (that should be of interest in scope, to only the Chapter circles), at this honorable list, being primarily an open mail list for Indian Wikimedia projects. In the first place, that the announcement is also copied on to this list was purely with an intention to make as many Chapter members as possible.to be aware of the upcoming elections. Beyond that, anyone is welcome to ponder upon further affairs at the chapter's wiki itself, with a record and history. I also take this opportunity to urge Praveen and others to take a more long-standing interest in the chapter, be an active member there and get more involved from within, so that we can have even better qualified people to select from. It really makes a difference when you are inside the system. May I take that this discussion is now concluded with this message. :-) With love to all and malice towards none, Viswam On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:08 AM, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

FYI Muzammil From: Ganesh Paudel &lt;gpaudel(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 15 Oct 2014 09:28:11 +0000 (UTC) To: Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt;;Martin Rulsch &lt;derhexer87(a)yahoo.de&gt;;Carlos Colina &lt;jewbask(a)wikimedia.org.ve&gt;;Biplab Anand <biplabanand@gmail.com>;"wikipedia-ne@lists.wikimedia.org" &lt;wikipedia-ne(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;;MF-Warburg &lt;mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com&gt;;nepaliwiki &lt;nepaliwiki(a)googlegroups.com&gt;;Abhishek Singh &lt;aks.abhishek(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: Request for approving Maithili Wikipedia Dear Language Committee and All, Thanks for approving Maithili Wikipedia. We are more than happy to hear this news. Now we have got the free and open encyclopedia in the second largest language spoken in Nepal. I hope this will open a new arena to develop and share content in one more of our own languages. I acknowledge Prof. Dr. Yogendra P. Yadava, Mr. Dharmendra Jha, Mr. Shiv Bhushan Lal, Mr. Biplav Anand from Nepal and Muzammil and all Maithili Wikipedians from India for your support for revision and content creation. I also acknowledge Mr. MF-Warburg, Gerard, Carlos, Alolita, Martin and all friends from WMF and Language Committee for your support and enthusiasm on this. Happy editing! With best regards Ganesh K Paudel Wikimedians of Nepal On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:38 PM, MF-Warburg &lt;mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com <mailto:mfwarburg@googlemail.com>> wrote: Dear all, thank you for your evaluations of the content of Maithili Wikipedia Incubator. The Wikimedia Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the Language Committee of Wikimedia, has now, based on yours and others' assessments approved the creation of the Maithili Wikipedia as a proper site based on the content of the Incubator project. You will be able to visit (and contribute to) Maithili Wikipedia soon at <https://mai.wikipedia.org> (the technical set-up may take some days). Best regards, MF-Warburg Member, Language Committee, Wikimedia Foundation 2014-10-08 15:15 GMT+02:00 Y.P. Yadava &lt;ypyadava(a)gmail.com <mailto:ypyadava@gmail.com>>: Dear all, I very much appreciate Maithili incubator Wikipedia initiative and would like to contribute to it. Some of the areas of my specialization include linguistic studies in Maithili and other Nepalese languages and their application to mother tongue-based multilingual education ( MLE). Please brief me about the template of the Wikipedia entries to facilitate me to send in my contributions. Wish you success in this momentous task. Yogendra P. Yadava, PhD Professor (Linguistics, retired) Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal & Life Member Nepal Academy Sent from my iPad On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Dharmendra Jha &lt;djanakpur(a)gmail.com <mailto:djanakpur@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I Have visited Maithili Wikipedia. It is fantastic. It is great job. I have randomly seen some article in this Wikipedia. I found they all are written in Maithili. I wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia. Best On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:44 PM, &lt;shiv.lal(a)ntc.net.np <mailto:shiv.lal@ntc.net.np>> wrote: Dear Ganesh ji & Mr. MF-Warburg, I have reviewed the following articles randomly and found all content written in Maithili lanugage. http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A… http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A… http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A… I wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia. Regars Shiv Bhushan Lal President of Federation encyclopedia made by the Many language Wikipedia 2008. Now the Wikipedia has requirements needed to a Full Wiki. Foundation will approve it when need your big favour in through any three random pages written in Maithili language Wikipedia community to have as follows https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/mai > or you can find any article by typing in the search box at the top right. > This test wiki may contain very short articles like one liners. If you > selected very short one, please skip to > another one. > If you have any difficulty or confusion, feel free to contact us. > With best regards > Ganesh K. Paudel > Wikipedian/Wikimedian > Wikimedia Nepal > (Affiliated as Wikimedians of Nepal) > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, MF-Warburg &lt;mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com <mailto:mfwarburg@googlemail.com>> > wrote: >> Hello Muzammil and Ganesh, >> >> the activity of Maithili Wikipedia in Incubator is now acceptable for but usually for the linguist or other scholar verify that the content in I already explained to Maithili language which LangCom <mailto:muzammil.wikipedian@asia.com>>: independent Maithili Wikipedia. efforts: users and about 60 overall with me). http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipe… language committee in this MF-Warburg by the "Email >>> user" function at Meta. >>> >> >> -- Dharmendra Jha News Consultant HIMALAYA TELEVISION Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal Immidiate Past Reserve Advisor International Federation Of Journalists (IFJ) Advisor Federation Of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) *Cell-00977-9801071459*