Hi Anirudh,
It is not at all a personal attack. If one attandee could have missinterpreted your statement on wikiproject Gujarat on en.wiki and considered it a reference to Gujarati Wikipedia as whole, there us a fair chance of it being so with other attendees as well.
I simply wanted to draw attention of everyone to be careful in future before making any such dillussive statements that may coney a wrong message. I didn't mention any name so there is no chance of any personal attack on you or anybody out there.
Thanks for clarifying your context of the statement.
Dhaval
Sent from my HTC On 17 Jan 2012 04:25, "Anirudh Bhati" anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
Dhaval,
Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified it with me first?
I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia, which has run out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with the others who were present at the meet up.
I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp.
It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public platform without checking your facts in the first place.
And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics.
Thanks,
Anirudh
Sent from my iPhone
On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" dsvyas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently
held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not
aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct
their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make
everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
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