Wikipedian Indians on Bishakha Datta's Appointment, an outsider with involvement in wiki editing Options

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Wikipedian Indians on Bishakha Datta's Appointment, from: The Hindu.com

Indian feminist journalist and filmmaker Bishakha Datta was recent invited to join the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. She runs the Mumbai-based non-profit Point of View, which is "dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture."

Noble gender balancing on behalf of Wikipedia San Francisco or a non-democratic cultural imperialist of Whites over Indian Wikipedian community?

Why, of course, the Wikimedia Foundation want trustees who know nothing about daily life on the Wikipedia!!! Let's see Bishakha Datta wiki-format a table or propose some hard core degradation pornography for deletion.

EXPLAINING HER PRIORITIES:

The virtual close-knit community of Wikipedians in India was bemused last week when the Wikimedia Foundation appointed its first ever Indian board member.

The predominantly male community was further astounded that the appointee was a woman, an “outsider” at that, with no background or involvement in wiki editing.

Even at the Bangalore Wikipedia meet, Ms. Dutta is conspicuous, being the only woman.

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I toned it down but cannot remove the copy and pasted version. Strange, there must be some caching going on or Flickr keeps deleted images.

Glassbead, whilst I am grateful for your detached moderation, I do remember you being defensive of this new trustee before ... rightly so from one point of view, e.g. she has not a clue what is going on.

On the other hand, she needs brought into the discussion. She has taken the bit, or bait, and is part of the PR machine now.

If you want to try a responsible approach, which I encourage and would appreciate, The Point of View website is here:

http://www.pointofview.org/contact.html

Point of View aims to promote the points of view of women through a sustained and creative use of media.

[GlassBeadGame]

I toned it down but cannot remove the copy and pasted version. Strange, there must be some caching going on or Flickr keeps deleted images.

Glassbead, whilst I am grateful for your detached moderation, I do remember you being defensive of this new trustee before ... rightly so from one point of view, e.g. she has not a clue what is going on.

On the other hand, she needs brought into the discussion. She has taken the bit, or bait, and is part of the PR machine now.

If you want to try a responsible approach, which I encourage and would appreciate, The Point of View website is here:

http://www.pointofview.org/contact.html

Point of View aims to promote the points of view of women through a sustained and creative use of media.

There is a... wait for it... libertarian aspect to to Ms. Datta's work with people working in the sex industry that is what probably got her through the door at WMF. She seems to have no fundamental problem with prostitution. She does not seek to help woman escape from it but to gain better working conditions and wages. This probably looked good to Boomis heads, Commons porn fans and maybe even raised the hopes of Tyciol pro-pedophile and FT2 pro-bestiality crowd. But it does not seem to follow to me that she would endorse their nonsense. I'm still reserving judgment.