Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread whothis
Thanks for introducing yourself Achal after so many years on the Advisory Board. Dare I suggest, you add part of that introduction to your Advisory Board page on one of the wikis. About the 5 year plan, dare I suggest you get around to reading that one of these days, you're on the Advisory Board af

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread Achal Prabhala
On Friday 21 January 2011 07:26 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Achal Prabhala wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I'm happy to tell you a little more about myself and the scope of this >> short-term research project I'm undertaking, and I'm as happy to assume >> that you fully intended for your messages to come a

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Knowledge in olden times of India are transferred orally from Gurus ( Teachers) to students/disciples . They are not necessarily recorded. We are talking about the ages even before manuscripts & paper are invented. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:53 AM, wrote: > In a message date

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 1/20/2011 11:37:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, dger...@gmail.com writes: > There's a lot of knowledge in fields which > everyone assumes, and which are transmitted academically, but not in a > format that teenage en:wp admins can grasp in five seconds. > Knowledge transmitte

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread MZMcBride
Achal Prabhala wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm happy to tell you a little more about myself and the scope of this > short-term research project I'm undertaking, and I'm as happy to assume > that you fully intended for your messages to come across as decorous and > rational. Hi. I appreciate you takin

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 January 2011 11:00, Achal Prabhala wrote: > Now to the project. I see that neither of you gentlemen has any thoughts > on it, and I welcome your engagement. The problem with oral knowledge > vs. published knowledge is an old one, and there are many interesting > ways in which the sum of pub

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread Erik Moeller
Thanks Achal :-) In addition to what Achal said, it's important to note that this fellowship was processed as a grant, and is transparently documented at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_Fellowships/Oral_Citations consistent with the principles of the grantmaking process. It's a short-term

[Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread Achal Prabhala
Greetings, I'm happy to tell you a little more about myself and the scope of this short-term research project I'm undertaking, and I'm as happy to assume that you fully intended for your messages to come across as decorous and rational. I've been on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread whothis
I agree with what he said. After looking him up, the only qualification I can find of this person is that he's on the advisory board, No idea, how he got there and for how long is his "term", makes me think that maybe there is a Cabal. Most places mirror his description on the Advisory Board page.