[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Announcing Wiki Loves Muslim Academia 2024

[Arvind Menon]

Religion Work on Wiki?

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 15:25, The Aafi  wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am delighted to announce the first edition of *"Wiki Loves Muslim
> Academia ",*
> a new Wiki Loves Campaign, which aims to help document knowledge related
> to global Muslim academia across Wikipedia projects.
>
> For the first edition, *Wiki Loves Muslim Academia 2024*
> , we
> limit ourselves to organising the campaign on Indic-language Wikis and the
> English Wikipedia only, to take better care of on-wiki policies subject to
> absence of a lot of helping people and teams.
>
> We have compiled a set of instructions and other pages on the Meta-Wiki
> and look forward to seeing Indian volunteers *contribute between 15
> January and 16 February 2024! *The scope of the campaign has been
> highlighted on this page
> .
>
> Should you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> Best regards,
> Aafi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Secret WMF Job of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

[Arvind Menon]

First of all I am not spreading any lies. Please check what information I
received from WMF Community Program Director

'''Hi Arvind, Krishna had been working on a contract with Community
Programs but that wrapped up a couple of months ago. '''

Now Krishna has also accepted he was on contract and said there is
documentation and would provide details in likely 1-2 days. Now 3-4 days
have passed and wish the details can be shared.

I could not find any User page with his name and in bracket WMF or Contract
and also any Meta page where it is written. This always happen everytime
with WMF Contractors.

How was the selection process done? This is also not clear and no mention
in the reply. If it is a lateral entry and that too without announcement
and documentation this raises serious doubts on WMF.

NOTE - This is not a fake profile. I will share my User Name when I feel
comfortable that no one will harass me. Learn to protect the identity of
Whistleblower.   I will definitely share my User Name and clear everyone do
not worry.












On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 00:44, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Hello.
>
> If you feel WMF was misled into hiring a non-competent Hindi speaker for
> liaising with the Hindi community, I encourage you to write to the
> Foundation's Human Resources department at h...@wikimedia.org, and it will
> be reviewed, and if necessary, whatever procedural flaw caused it will be
> rectified.
>
> This mailing list cannot address this issue.
>
>A.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 21:48 Piyush Maurya  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Sivaraam,
>>
>> But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about part-time hired people
>> serving for 6 months or so on specific projects serving for specific
>> language communities. In India on account of Hindi's largest user base
>> Foundation chooses it whenever a new project comes in for getting input.
>> Mostly these positions are called 'liaison'.
>>
>> They get paid and mostly these job's information not get publicly
>> available (like mailing list or village pump but maybe on the link you
>> gave). Whenever a new initiative takes place in foundation, these newly
>> made positions get filled up by people who doesn't have the confidence of
>> the community and in severe cases can't even write Hindi!
>>
>> This is a important issue for our community. More information on this
>> will be helpful.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Piyush
>> (User:हिंदुस्थान वासी)
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, 9:23 pm Piyush Maurya, 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Krishna and all,
>>>
>>> Thanks for very detailed clarification. I agree this was some kind of
>>> dubious statement without any credibility (which my comment showed).
>>>
>>> But to get some real outcome of this discussion if any. I want to know
>>> how the foundation chooses or appoints people for posts roll out for
>>> communities. I have been witness to several such cases in the past year or
>>> so where such posts got filled by someone without community consultation or
>>> knowledge.
>>>
>>> I'm talking about Hindi Wikimedia community in this case. What is the
>>> procedure for applying for these posts. We get several people here who
>>> doesn't know how to write Hindi and are serving as communication bridge or
>>> liaison. And they seem to be getting these (they get paid) jobs by some
>>> kind of connection among themselves.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Piyush
>>> (User:हिंदुस्थान वासी)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 8:29 pm Tito Dutta,  wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree. It rushed towards a conclusion without caring about questions
>>>> and discussion. There was not much good faith assumed as well, in my
>>>> opinion.
>>>>
>>>> (My opinion is in personal capacity)
>>>> --User:Titodutta
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:34 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>>>> kcvel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Firstly, I would like to condemn this email from a person named
>>>>> “Arvind Menon” - this email is very much a personal attack on me, to
>>>>> misguide a community member, character assasination and to defame, all
>>>>> using a fake profile. If the person is actually seeking any information 
>>>>> for
>>>>> community benefit, as Piyush rightly pointed, it would be helpful to know
>>>>> the person’s Wikimedia identity, and their work. Otherwise, this can 
>>>>> merely
>>>>&