Re: [Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

2010-05-04 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project. It's usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the internet than real-life - some positive externalities may arise. Anirudh Bhati On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Amory Meltzer wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

2010-05-04 Thread Anirudh Bhati
one who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn’t deserve to be. —L. Neil Smith. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa >wrote: > > > James Alexander wrote: > > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati > &

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Congratulations! I think this is a valuable effort in the right direction. anirudh On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > > "Advocacy" is a much more general term in this context than people > > seem to be taking it as. It

Re: [Foundation-l] Will Beback

2012-03-11 Thread Anirudh Bhati
The ban is not infinite. Will Beback is free to appeal the ban after six months. I recall having positive interactions with Will Beback in the past, however, the English Wikipedia community is more than capable of taking care of itself. Thanks. anirudh On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, James He

[Foundation-l] India Program - Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) & Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-15 Thread Anirudh Bhati
FYI. IRC Office Hours with Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs at 1530hrs UTC on #wikimedia-office@freenode. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hisham Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:03 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] *cross-post* India Program - Fortnightly IRC

[Foundation-l] Fwd: India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-28 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Posting to foundation-l. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hisham Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office) To: Wikimedia India Community list Hi Folks

Re: [Foundation-l] Consultant, Communications - India Programs and Compensation

2011-09-03 Thread Anirudh Bhati
ing to a rule issued last year by the Ministry of External Affairs, all foreign nationals employed in India must draw a salary of over $25000 per annum in order to be eligible for an employment visa. Considering this, would the Foundation be likely to hire foreign contractors to be employed in Ind

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-11 Thread Anirudh Bhati
My personal opinion, and I only speak for myself and not the Chapter or the Foundation (I wouldn't dare!). On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot all for exmplaining the differences. I would be very much > interested to know more about the ''relationship'' between

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-04 Thread Anirudh Bhati
e: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Who are they and what do they do? Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:46 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > >> Who are they and what do they do? >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Anirudh Bhati >> > > > Community Associate is a title

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Thanks Deniz and Keegan for your response. :) Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: >  Hi there! > > I've been subscribed to this list for a long time on my volunteer > account, only postin

Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

2010-10-22 Thread Anirudh Bhati
s Wikimedia projects and forums. Allegations of censorship are misplaced. He will, without a doubt, continue to blog about Wikimedia and interested members can relay anything worthy of being read without the kerfuffle. Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype:

Re: [Foundation-l] Attack pages at Encyc. Dramatica

2010-10-22 Thread Anirudh Bhati
fun. But giving > them attention of any kind is what they want most, since it gives them an > opportunity for more mischief (and thus more lulz). > > In other words, don't feed. Unless they are exposing sensitive and private information (facts) about you or someone you know.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia quoted in Indian Supreme court case

2010-10-23 Thread Anirudh Bhati
up to the level of the Federal Circuit Courts.[4] Mention in liveMINT: Wikipedia Justice[5] Status on WORLD DOMINATION? Almost there. :) Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh [1] http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1521881/ [2] http://www.indiankanoon.org/search/?formInput=wikipedia%20doct

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-12 Thread Anirudh Bhati
el of support equivalent to our > smaller projects", which is most definitely *not* "just providing ISP > services". Yep, better offer them a short-term grant to cover hosting costs than deal with ethical and legal issues. Anirudh Bhati > > _

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-22 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any >>> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in >>> a European country without African popul

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Zack Exley wrote: > OK, everyone -- I learned my lesson! Thanks for teaching it. > > I was looking at it from the perspective of the reader who has never heard > the word "Wikimedia". There are millions and millions of them. Luckily they > simply think we are missp

[Foundation-l] Tamil Wiki workshop in Eastern University, SriLanka

2010-12-28 Thread Anirudh Bhati
FYI. The first Wikipedia meetup / workshop in Sri Lanka is a milestone for the entire movement. :) Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh -- Forwarded message -- From: Ravishankar Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:45 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l

[Foundation-l] Deindividuation and Wikipedia.

2011-03-12 Thread Anirudh Bhati
to exact revenge it often ends in actual justice. Once deindividuation kicks in, the cues from the environment shape the resulting behavior. The norms of the mob, good or evil, replace the norms of everyday life." Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 9

[Foundation-l] Guardian: US spy operation that manipulates social media

2011-03-17 Thread Anirudh Bhati
s, blogposts, tweets, retweets, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 93287122

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia ZA APPROVED!

2011-03-27 Thread Anirudh Bhati
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lourie Pieterse Date: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia ZA APPROVED! To: WikimediaZA The chapter just got approved by the WMF! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_South_Africa ___