[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Shiju Alex]

It will be good if all the other committee members introduce
themselves to *Indic
language* wiki community.


Shiju

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Praveen,
>
> Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:
>
> I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6 years, though
> recently I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My username on either
> wikis is 'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki and an admin in the
> English Wiki. My edit contributions are at
> http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=tawiki_p<http://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=tawiki_p>and
> http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=enwiki_p<http://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundar&dbname=enwiki_p>Besides these, I wrote a bot for exporting over 1 lakh dictionary entries to
> Tamil Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I have also
> participated in several outreach efforts and volunteered with MediaWiki
> localisation. I presented a paper at Wikimania 2009. (
> http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217 )
>
> As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email outlining the
> process. For now, you can check the post by HPN at
> http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563
>
> Regards,
>
> 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Praveen Prakash <me.praveen at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> *Sent:* Thu, March 11, 2010 3:24:53 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter
>
>
> I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.
>
> But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a community
> (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing list, but I didn't
> hear anything about such an active effort (may be i missed). Is there any
> separate communication medium? Or is this a special chapter for wikimedia
> English projects?
>
> I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
> linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba). He is also being CEO,
> Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I don't
> have any problem about that).  I am thinking about that election process and
> members. I am sorry but frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If
> possible introduce them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community
> about any further steps.
>
> If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll be
> more happy.
>
> PraveenP
>
> Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft
> Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has
> been put up on Meta here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA
>
> Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better
> part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for
> improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions
> on the relevant talk page:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.
>
> However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important
> that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made
> on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us
>  maintain
> the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.
>
> People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming
> the India chapter may find my blog post on it,
> http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting
> read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen on
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.
>
> Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the
> MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.
> --
> Hari Prasad Nadig
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