But the thing here is that Bengali is the language of only one chapter: Wikimedia
Bangladesh. There's a reason why there are coordinators for French- and
Spanish-speaking countries or, more pedantically speaking, Francocoop and Iberocoop.
There's more than one chapter for both languages, and in particular for Spanish. I
was apparently mistaken for the CEE group.
Let's remember here that Charles is looking for a regional coordinator for the
Chapters Exchange. The Exchange is basically a project of the WCA which facilitates the
exchange of services (i.e. tech infrastructure, assistance with organizing conferences,
etc.) between chapters and chapters-to-be. As chapters are geographical entities,
language divisions here are irrelevant.
However, as we still lack a coordinator, if you'd like to volunteer to be the Asian
coordinator (as WMBD is a member of the WCA), then feel free to volunteer for all of us.
;)
Josh
(N.B.: Wikimedia Philippines is not a member of the WCA.)
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Block I1, AB Political Science
Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines
Member, Ateneo Debate Society
Member, The Assembly
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From: Shabab Mustafa <shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com>
To: Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination
<wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; Josh Lim
<jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: "charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch" <charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Looking for a Regional Coordinator for
Chapter's exchange
Well according to WCA journal on meta, I can see name of regional coordinators for
French-speaking
countries and Spanish-speaking countries.
Other point, Charles mentioned 'in the language he prefer'. If a coordinator can
not understand the language, then how can he know that it was a cry for help related to
'exchange'?
Bengali is official language for Bangladesh (first language), West Bengal (state of
India), Assam (state of India), Tripura (state of India) and Sierra Leone with 205
million+ native speakers.
I leaving it to WCA exchange team to decide. And as I do build websites for living and a
fanboy of Linux, I would be happy to help on the related technical issues as well.
---
Shabab Mustafa
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I presume this is for the entire region, as there is one coordinator for the CEE group and
one for Iberocoop. There can be one coordinator who forwards everything to this list, and
then from here people can translate things if necessary.
Josh
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Block I1, AB Political Science
Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro
Manila, Philippines
Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines
Member, Ateneo Debate Society
Member, The Assembly
jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com | +63 (927) 531-8301
Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor
http://akira123323.livejournal.com
________________________________
From: Shabab Mustafa <shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com>
To: Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination
<wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Looking for a Regional Coordinator for
Chapter's exchange
Hi Charles,
I have a question. Will there be 'one' representative for whole Asia region or
'one' coordinator per major languages spoken in Asia? You know a wide variety of
languages are spoken throughout this region and knowing all those languages for one person
is virtually an impossibility.
If you meant 'one' coordinator per language, then I would be happy to lend a hand
for Bengali.
Regards,
---
Shabab Mustafa
WMBD
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:14 PM, charles andrès <charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch>
wrote:
Dear all,
I took the lead of the "exchange" team of the WCA.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal/2013_…
This team aim to facilitate exchange of service (like website hosting, documentation
template exchange, etc.) between chapters and chapters to be.
Even if this team has been created within the WCA, its scope is not restricted to chapters
members of the association.
To help me is this task, I'm looking for a regional coordinator from the Asian
Chapters mailing list.
The basic idea is that a chapters looking for anything can ask on the mailing list he like
to use and in the language he prefer, like this the coordinator will just transmit to the
rest of the Exchange team the request, and each other coordinator will assure the transfer
to the other linguistic or thematic mailing list.
I hope you will like the idea and join me!
Sincerely
Charles
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"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
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