[Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:39, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) On-spot *India Chapter membership* for visitors if they wish.
>

Was : Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata
Book Fair 2012'

I think we are going for numbers game here. Whats the point of on-spot
membership? Seriously, does having 50,000 chapter members do any great
thing for Wikipedia? I seriously fail to understand (in the past, future),
what can the chapter do with just so many members who do not have an idea
about Wikipedia community and many of whom may not go beyond attending
meetups and conferences.

Sorry if am sound odd here, I just dont like this part of chapter, where
the chapter instead of instilling confidence in community and making them
members, chooses people who attend a meetup / conference / stall to become
its members.(In many cases makes someone member of chapter without having a
clue about it. I personally know this since my friend who happen to
accompany me to a meetup, just because he had nothing else to spend time is
a chapter member now) I do not mean any offense to any of those who sign
up(they may be genuinely interested, good guys), but just fail to
understand what we are trying to achieve with chapter membership numbers.

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Regards
Srikanth.L
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