Thanks Ravi for bringing up this topic. I sent a similar mail regarding this some time back.
Now a days many so called "wikipedians" are popping up here and there claiming themselves *as the spokesperson of different Indian language wikis*. The irony is that *none of the Wiki language communities are aware about these types of developments*. And some of these spokespersons doesn't even have an account in the respective language wiki. I know that *Wiki editing* and *Wiki advocacy* are two different topics. But we, contributors to different language wikipedias, doesn't want some one outside the Language community taking the responsibility of spokesperson with out our knowledge. It is a good idea to appoint a team of active wikians for each language as the official Spokespersons/contact persons. Let each Wiki language community decide how it should be represented outside. Shiju On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ravi shankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Recently we came to know that a fraud guy has been claiming himself to be > the "head" of Tamil Wiki and a director for yet-to-be-formed Indian > Wikimedia chapter. He has been doing this at many places including Govt > circles. This was a shock for us. I would like to warn a similar possibility > for all other Indian Wikis. > > I recommend that each Wiki start a mechanism to officially elect few > official Spokespersons / contact persons and spread the word about this > selection. The appointment can be cycled every few months to share > responsibility with more members. These need not be just the sysops / > bureaucrats. They can be anyone trust worthy, long serving the community, > having fair idea of Wiki organization and easy to cooperate and communicate > with. > > Ravi. > > http://ravidreams.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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