Note: my last mail was caught in moderation queue, I sent it before Aishik's last mail but it got approved after his mail.
Iftee On Sat, May 27, 2023, 7:41 PM Aaqib Anjum Aafi <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure where is the disappointing stuff in this thread. You are > free to start a usergroup and work under an umbrella which adds more to the > diversity of the movement, and I suppose it should, in your case, given > you plenty of valuable contributions. However, calling helpful and friendly > suggestions of others on certain errors that you made as "something > unconstructive" is just being dishonest. Most of the comments on this > thread are telling you constructively to engage with the larger community, > for instance, with regards to the name of the usergroup. I run a thematic > usergroup and I had to go through months of AffCom review: this thing > overlaps this thing and so on, even though I had not used any such name or > overlapped seriously with any specific community. However, the wider > community groups in India where consulted by AffCom before they approved my > usergroup application. > > The reason of me telling this to you is that most of the people commenting > here are sharing their experiences and telling you what should be the > correct step. You should invite all the communities that are in the region > with which the name overlaps and have their comments heard, and if that > doesn't reach any conclusion, you can opt for a different name that could > perhaps serve your ideas and goals better. > > I hope this makes some sense. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/PXM6YIMPATMAEKGVORO6FSOQN3AVA7J6/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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