Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Looks like Manmohan Singh maintaining silence and Kapil Sibbal giving his best to censor media to keep image clean. > *The members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia > India and Sunil@CIS have already responded to your questions.* I am also unable to find responce/clarification from EC. I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Individual Engagement Grant: deadline for current round, 15 Feb

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying "Individual Engagement Grants support Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, or otherwise serve our mission, community, and strategic priorities. "We fund individuals or small teams to bu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Abhishek, The chapter's response has been to ask you to stop making unsubstantiated allegations. Sunil has clarified that that the WMF sponsored A2K programme is funding travel and accommodation of some members of the Wikimedia India Executive Committee for the purpose of a training session in Ba

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Hi, On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi < i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Rohini, > > > *I have been on-board several Wiki mailing lists and closed emailing >> groups for a few years now,* > > > Congrats for being 'on-board' of several Wiki-mailing lists. I do

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Dear Anirudh, Please direct me to the response/clarification from Wikimedia India Executive Committee. Only Sunil has made the whole thing clear and now its "only" You who is saying - It is clear to us all that some members of the Executive committee will be travelling to Bangalore in order to t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Dear Abhishek, I am a relatively disinterested party (no implication on others' interest, but certainly from your perspective I am quite disinterested (not uninterested)) in this matter. You have certainly made your point. I (and perhaps many others who have not chosen to respond or engage) have t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Abhishek, I noticed that you have been repetitively raising the same issues over and over again. The members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India and Sunil@CIS have already responded to your questions. It is clear to us all that some members of the Executive committee will be travelling

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

​Dear Rohini, ​*I have been on-board several Wiki mailing lists and closed emailing > groups for a few years now,* ​Congrats for being 'on-board' of several Wiki-mailing lists. I do appreciate kind of energy and efforts needed to to be on-board/to join Wiki Mailing List. Hats off to you for mana

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Misleading Community!

Dear Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter. Could you be please be kind enough to clarify, Why EC was/is interested in misguiding mailing list and Indian community? When asked about CIS funding - Executive Committee member wrote : *The Chapter has alwaya made things public and will xont

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

My dear Doctor, it is 26,000,000. That is 2.6 crore, not lakh. It belongs to CIS, not the Chapter. CIS is a totally different organization, not related to the Chapter is any way whatsoever. It consists of interesting (for a psychologist) people like Noopur, Nitika, and Subhashish. They get pa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth

Noise. Troll. Cease and desist, unless you have something positive to contribute. fyi, since you don't seem to have the time to regularly follow Wikimedia activities in India, many Wikimedians took part in the global Wikimedia Loves Monuments event, without any funding offers, with terrific result

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Thanks for the clarification Sunil. So I came to know that the committee involved in the selection process, most member doesn't have any wiki experience, and only few have on-wiki experience. Correct me if I am wrong. It's surprising to know people, who doesn't have experience on wiki recruiting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Abhishek, I have been on-board several Wiki mailing lists and closed emailing groups for a few years now, but this is the first time I have been piqued to respond to such a 'discussion'. Your efforts to prove what you are trying to prove are outstanding. I won't be surprised if Doctor Hakim (I app

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Gautam John wrote: > On 14 February 2013 19:31, Theo10011 wrote: > > > If you read again, I questioned, denoted by a question mark - if achal > > *still* serves on their board and if there was still an association. I > asked > > still, because I knew he did at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On 14 February 2013 19:31, Theo10011 wrote: > If you read again, I questioned, denoted by a question mark - if achal > *still* serves on their board and if there was still an association. I asked > still, because I knew he did at one point and I don't follow either of them. Which is why I said

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Gautam John wrote: > On 14 February 2013 19:15, Theo10011 wrote: > > > Perhaps you didn't read the clarification where Achal did serve on their > > board till September of 2011, he does happen to still be a member of the > > registered society who is still consul

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On 14 February 2013 19:15, Theo10011 wrote: > Perhaps you didn't read the clarification where Achal did serve on their > board till September of 2011, he does happen to still be a member of the > registered society who is still consulted by CIS. Perhaps you can read again > below and clarify what

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Gautam John wrote: > On 14 February 2013 18:30, Theo10011 wrote: > > > I really appreciate the replies and the clarification on some of these > > points. > > Gracious of you to do so. Now could you please apologise for your half > baked assertion of facts backed

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On 14 February 2013 18:30, Theo10011 wrote: > I really appreciate the replies and the clarification on some of these > points. Gracious of you to do so. Now could you please apologise for your half baked assertion of facts backed by nothing more substantial than your thoughts? In particular: "3

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Thanks Sunil. I really appreciate the replies and the clarification on some of these points. Kind Regards Theo On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Sunil Abraham wrote: > Dear Theo, > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > > 1) I can't seem to understand the rationale behind hiring

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

I think it's more a region specific spelling/pronunciation. If you look at the few variations of the pronunciation it might be more clear: Northern India: Saan-skrit Eastern India: Sans-krut, San-su-ta, San-skru-ta Southern India: Sam-srkuta, Sam-skrita In writing it is Sanskrit, a term coined by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia related activities in GNUnify 2013

FYI could be useful for anyone interested in gadgets for regional language Wikipedias. Begin forwarded message: > From: Yuvi Panda > Date: 14 February 2013 2:38:17 PM IST > To: MediaWiki development in India > Subject: [MediaWiki-India] Gadget Workshop at GNUnify > Reply-To: yuvipa...@gmail.co

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

I completely agree with the points Tejaswini and Sundar and all others. I'm only worried about the technical problems. If someone could show some light on how the keyword "Indic" would redirect someone to content having "South Asian". If that's not possible South Asian (Indic) could be used alte

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

I just notice that Tejaswini's original email addresses these points. Sorry for coming late to the party and posting on this thread. Excuse me as I'm unable to follow the discussions here regularly. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

I don't know the actual history of the term 'Indic'. However, I know pieces of it and why it's a bad idea to use the term. 1. The languages spoken in India are from very diverse language families with very different origins. The biggest group as of now is the Indo-Aryan subfamily of Indo-Europe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up > with the term 'Indic', Why will this be an interesting activity ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay __

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

It is by 1877 that the Europeans started studying and classifying the scripts of oriental languages especially, South Asian and East Asian. Probably Holle did the first attempt of cataloging the Sanskrit and its apparently descending languages within the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Please se

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Dear Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer wrote: > Interesting isn't it? That one should have timed that A2K bulletin to come > out exactly when the Chapter is having a fundraiser and leave people like > the good Doctor here confused about

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth

India Chapter should organize one like this. Oh wait, you need cash first. Sorry. Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:58:43 +0400 From: srik.r...@wikimedia.in To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth For your information: -- Forwarded

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > 1) I can't seem to understand the rationale behind hiring academicians here > at all. There was no rationale behind hiring academics. It just happens that two of the three people that the recruitment committee selected turned out to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

Dear Tejaswini and Friends, It is an interesting and pertinent issue. I do completely concur with Tejaswini on the problem of 'using philological classifications and terminology'. However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up with the term 'Indic', in the computing c