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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group
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 <AaqibAnjumAafi@gmail.com>
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.
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