Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-09-06 Thread Alex Wang
Thanks for that suggestion, Srikanth! I agree, having these useful comments on the discussion page of the request is very helpful for the rest of the community. Cheers, Alex On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I request all of you to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-22 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Request the views of more editors on this proposal. Guys, Santanu took the trouble to give us a detailed proposal, at least lets do him the courtesy of giving our views, whatever these may be. I went through the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-22 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hi all, I request all of you to take the discussion to the Grant talk page on Meta where it would be more visible and useful for others going thru the proposal. -- Srikanth. http://bestpedia.in On 22-Aug-2015 8:10 pm, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:00

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-20 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Request the views of more editors on this proposal. Guys, Santanu took the trouble to give us a detailed proposal, at least lets do him the courtesy of giving our views, whatever these may be. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Yohan, for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-19 Thread Yohann Thomas
Hi Ashwin From what I see on the grant page, the amount requested is around 1.4 lakhs, which is about 33% of the total cost. Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been on a mountaneering expedition myself

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-19 Thread Shyamal Lakshminarayanan
Does this project plan to be inclusive? I would like to join the trek and I can think of numerous others who could add value to any such an expedition - you should include specialists - geologists, lichen experts, botanists and others, otherwise random images without interpretation would miss out

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi, I've been on a mountaneering expedition myself (Nandad Devi 7817m), 1993 and love mountains (see https://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/sarson-patal/). I agree that we need good images to cover mountains in India. However, I cannot see how funding an expedition can be justified

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Thanks Yohan, for pointing out, my bad. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan lshya...@gmail.com wrote: Does this project plan to be inclusive? I would like to join the trek and I can think of numerous others who could add value to any such an expedition - you should

[Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

2015-08-18 Thread Santanu Chandra
Dear my fellow Wikipedians, Greetings from Kolkata, India. I am pleased to inform you that we are going to organize a expedition project “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal” under “Wikipedia Treks Mountain “in September 2015. This is a high-altitude trekking expedition from Gangotri to Badrinath in