[Wikimediaindia-l] Developers list for India specific discussions

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> During the weeks running up to Wikipedia 10 event, there was a talk on
> requesting a developers list for India specific discussions.
>
> The need for an India specific developers list is quite obvious considering
> that we have several Indian language projects on Wikimedia, each needing
> specific attention in terms of technology to improve contributions and
> community.
>
> Considering that there is growing interest in India about Wikimedia, about
> mediawiki - platform that runs Wikipedia and related projects; taking into
> account that there is a growing community of developers interested to
> contribute, develop on India specific projects, an India specific list of
> developers seems to be a necessity.
>
> The initial request for a mailing list was made in December:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26436
>
> However, there hasn't been consensus yet. There was discussion on whether
> this would create unnecessary fragmentation.
>
> Here's inviting thoughts, opinions. Or support, if we can gather some for
> creation of this mailing list.
>
> Good idea. It will be useful.

Cheers
Arjun
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