Hello, I am grateful to you for sharing your inputs on this thought. Sushant, I was trying to get an estimate of how many such emails might come. If needed, we can count only those grants or supports which are slightly larger in size. Starting from Rapid Grant, I do not have the exact count of how many Rapid Grant application from/related to the regions per year. I guess it will be around 10–12/year. Other grants such as Project Grant, Simple APG, APG etc open up at a specific time (mostly twice a year). I glanced through the recent grants pages and my hunch is actually it won't be too many. However you are right, possibly we can check how many emails the list could have got in 2020. In case if there could be too many emails, I think the suggestion you have made— fortnightly/monthly email works pretty well. If needed, the email can be treated as "for information purpose" and as much as possible the discussion can take place on the relevant talk page on Meta-Wiki. Thanks, Sushant for your inputs. Thank you, Pavan for sharing your thoughts. I am not sure about this, I feel the moderators/managers can work to fix it if the emails are getting delayed somehow. Some time ago, I don't remember where exactly, I saw a similar post on some other large mailing list. On Telegram Wikimedia General Chat also I remember seeing volunteers came in to help in moderation. (On a similar note: an email to Wikimedia-l a few days ago informed about an upcoming plan to review the grants strategy. Our this discussion is not directly related to that. However as this is going to be an important activity, one may consider reading: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-January/096086.html ) Thanks As User:Titodutta রবি, ১০ জানু, ২০২১ তারিখে ১২:২৩ PM টায় এ pavan santhosh < pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com&gt; লিখেছেন:

I strongly oppose this Idea, once again. Some more reasons are listed below: - This thread or any such future thread in no way represents Indian Wikimedia communities. For example, there are tens of Wikipedians who don't know that Tito proposed an idea to "Major Indian grant requests should come to India mailing list" & also trying to make it "mandatory". This list excludes several Indian Wikimedians who never voiced in this list. Essentially, this would increase barriers for community members instead of reducing it. - It would be an interesting idea for Tito individually or CIS-A2K institutionally to conduct a small study to map platforms that Indian language wikimedians discuss & understand how much they are missing/present in this "so called Indian mailing list". I believe several Wikimedians who are doing a lot of work on wikis are not here. - Instead of mandating grantees to publish their grant here and hoping that the members of the thread would follow some of the "best practices" which are very hard to impose, It would be better to see someone (not grantee, ofcourse) post links of relevant grants and encourage interested members of this list to comment on talk page itself. - You mentioned "excessive canvassing, votestacking, back-scratching, meatpuppetry" but not harassment, mockery, attacking grantees, etc., But, a range of policy violations do happen in mailing lists, and people easily got away with it. I don't see value in mandating people to have a discourse on Non-wiki platforms and then try to impose policies which are very difficult. This difficulty can not be mitigated after a level because this is not our platform (off-wiki platform). I see this as a futile exercise. - Food for thought: If we start asking people to post in mailing list, why not fb groups and whatsapp groups? Where should we start when we mandate using an off-wiki platform as an official channel for users? Is it just because some of us who are elite enough believe this as a decent platform? I just mentioned some of my objections in this mail and not articulate enough. But, please consider this idea is not acceptable for me and may be for many of the Wikimedians who are not still in this list. Until there is some sort of wider-discussion, consensus backed by strong study, This list is and should be just another useful discussion forum, nothing more and nothing less. Thanks, Pavan. 29 డిసెం, 2021, బుధ 10:31కి, Tito Dutta &lt;trulytito(a)gmail.com&gt; ఇలా వ్రాసారు:

Hello Tito, Thanks for the response. My issue is not mainly about agreement or disagreement, not at all about head count. I am concerned about vast majority of community members getting atleast informed about these kind of threads due to the very nature of mailing lists. (I am not entirely against mailing lists, but only when it becomes mandatory for Community members) This is not a Wiki and there are barriers for participation here on various levels. Language, privacy, and knowing that there is a list are a few. This platform allowed us to have this proposal, discussion and summary happening on very platform where many users who gets affected by changes are not even present. That is the concern I wanted to stress while I am writing that "This thread or any such future thread in no way represents Indian Wikimedia communities." May be wrong choice of words. I also just wanted to clarify and rest the case here. See you! Best, Pavan. 4 జన, 2022, మంగళ 20:51కి, Tito Dutta &lt;trulytito(a)gmail.com&gt; ఇలా వ్రాసారు: