Dear Sudhanwa, As the founder of The Heritage Lab, your email came across as very amusing to me.
Allow me to elaborate -- in the "heritage labs" (gosh, I wish you would get the name right at least) - we don't "build heritage". Actually heritage refers to something we "inherit". What we do is create ways for people to access and engage with that inheritance, specifically cultural inheritance. I would normally pass off your response as a very typical 'troll-behaviour' one, and ignore it -- but you're a member of the Wiki community and I find it important therefore to urge you to understand terms such as *post-colonial and post-independence*. The post-colonial period typically begins with independence but the challenges and issues faced by India in these phases can be distinct -- post colonialism often involves addressing the specific legacies of colonialism (ones that we continue to suffer today). I'm usually up for a debate - but why I find your response to be typical of "Troll behaviour" is that *your comment lacks any research on our work *-- you simply tried to discredit us and "rant". When you use words like "seems like" -- you make it very clear that you could not be bothered enough to check the link and understand if we have at all covered ancient India / or other "thousands of years of history, culture and heritage" in other ways. If you had indeed bothered, you would probably come across some interesting stories - like one about a 2000 year old artefact clicked by a Wiki-community member during our campaign last year. *What I find shameful *about this entire exchange is that you, a Wikipedian -- who is meant to check for reliable citations before editing a Wiki page and is meant to gather information in an appropriate manner in order to spread knowledge, couldn't even cross check before writing an email to the entire list. I wish you better mental health and positivity this festive season. There is enough hatred in this world and we don't need more of this behaviour. Thanks, anyway. Medhavi ᐧ ᐧ On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 13:04, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send WikimediaIndia-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikimediaindia-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WikimediaIndia-l digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Invitation for Wiki contests and fellowship by The Heritage Lab > (Satdeep Gill) > 2. Re: Invitation for Wiki contests and fellowship by The Heritage Lab > (Sudhanwa Jogalekar) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:21:57 +0530 > From: Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> > Subject: [WikimediaIndia-l] Invitation for Wiki contests and > fellowship by The Heritage Lab > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary=Apple-Mail-545A37AD-382D-4FB9-B91A-F728F8FECE69 > > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 3714 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 10:48:18 +0530 > From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[email protected]> > Subject: [WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Invitation for Wiki contests and > fellowship by The Heritage Lab > To: Wikimedia India Community list > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > ca+ho68wfs3gv4ochr6hwomvc1ftl4sk0wt1zar2p5iwwgw9...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="000000000000d3596e0609891987" > > I am wondering what kind of heritage these people are building in heritage > labs!! > > Even the theme says post colonial India!! > > Looks like they have nothing to do with our history, culture, heritage of > thousands of years. > > Probably, they still want to remain in the colonial India heritage. That > can't even say post independence activities. > > > Shameful. > And Wikipedia is supporting it in the name of spreading knowledge!! > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 8:22 AM Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *Forwarding the following message on behalf of Arunesh Varade, The > > Heritage Lab* > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > The Heritage Lab <https://www.theheritagelab.in/culture-events/> is > > organizing two Wiki contests > > < > https://www.theheritagelab.in/world-heritage-week-contest-monuments-museums/> > in > > the month of November on the occasion of World Heritage Week and Wiki > Asian > > Month. > > > > First contest is an edit-a-thon where open access content from GLAMs > would > > be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons with relevant data to improve the > > accessibility of these images. > > > > The second contest is where people can share the stories of visiting > > museums. It can be a photo essay, illustration, etc. The submissions in > > this contest will be uploaded on Commons and the best entries from them > > will be rewarded. > > > > We have exciting prizes for the winners so we look forward to your active > > participation in both these events. > > > > Further, we have also opened applications for the second edition of Open > > Knowledge Fellowship > > <https://www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowledge-museums-india/> where we > > host a cohort of fellows to research and create new knowledge about > Indian > > art and cultural heritage and contribute the same to Wikimedia projects. > > > > Please pass on the word to the people who would be interested in being a > > part of this. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Arunesh Varade > > on behalf of The Heritage Lab > > _______________________________________________ > > WikimediaIndia-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikimediaindia-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 4209 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaIndia-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > End of WikimediaIndia-l Digest, Vol 2341, Issue 1 > ************************************************* > -- Founding Editor | The Heritage Lab <http://www.theheritagelab.in/> *Always looking forward to working with good people and brave institutions. * *_____________________________________________* <http://dmanalytics2.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fmedhavigandhi&i=13&d=q7fh6ZvmRL-2FC6YVyhrQg&e=medhavigandhi%40gmail.com&a=Ggh9VAE0TxGZDsAfeUlMTA> <http://dmanalytics2.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmedhavigandhi&i=17&d=q7fh6ZvmRL-2FC6YVyhrQg&e=medhavigandhi%40gmail.com&a=Ggh9VAE0TxGZDsAfeUlMTA> [image: https://www.instagram.com/theheritagelab/] <https://www.instagram.com/theheritagelab/>
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