Dhaval, Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified it with me first?
I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia, which has run out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with the others who were present at the meet up. I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp. It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public platform without checking your facts in the first place. And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics. Thanks, Anirudh Sent from my iPhone On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held > in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the > administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in > gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.). > > This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not > aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the > Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site > statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by > Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), they > should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are not > aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its > state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events > people convey wrong message to the masses. > > I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct their > mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in > successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt. > > This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone > aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day > or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be > an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on > gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I will be more > than happy to share the same. > > Regards, > Dhaval > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-gu mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
