Wikipedia To Establish Operations In India

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In a first of its kind move, Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia) is all set to establish an operational set up in India for the purpose of strategic …

Given how close the Delhi Commonwealth Games came to being a disaster (buildings only half completed 2 days before the opening ceremony, collapsing roofs and bridges, broken electrical wiring, filthy overflowing toilets, dirty sinks, looting of white goods by workers, Dengue fever, and gastroenteritis) good luck to them.

Sounds just like our local curry house too ...

If the recycled press releases are anything to go by, the standard of English is about to bottom out (what is a geared up protocol)... but let's be honest what this is all about.

More unpaid labor for Massa Jimbo's plantation. Drag in some cheap foreigners and sell them the same dream.

Con in the Indians in to work for free and take care of the darkies when they come onstream later. Let's face, the white, male, elite admin cohort is already in place with its unchallengable defense mechanisms and bureaucratic structures. Was it not the Indians the British and Americans dragged out to the Caribbean and down to South Africa to deal with the kaffirs?

As Nirad Chaudhuri might have said, the last English Wikipedian alive will almost certainly be a Bengali.

And did they spend more money indulged in a detailed research? Who got the free holiday?

When a couple of months ago the Indonesians kicked up, they were soon shown who was boss.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/found...uly/059843.html

I can only imagine the meeting in which they decided to save money by outsourcing WP editing to India...

I doubt that they actually, honestly, put it into words ... but I bet the logic ran through their minds.

Indians are cheap and we can get them for free by selling them some cult hogwash about saving the world.
There are lots of chubby nerdy computer boys not getting laid and working in booths with free internet connections.
They speak English (sort of).
An entire sub-continent has LOTS of subjects and languages to swell the "Bigur Numbaz is Betur" press releases.

On one level, I am all for Indians to be incorporated into the project. There are a lot of educated Indians and they could do wonder by employing and giving equal rights to women ahead of men. I just think they should be paid for their work. India has enough real problems for its middle classes to address without being sucked into Nawab Jimbo Wale's black hole.

In fact, I think that 'ethically', in order to gain best return on donors investment, they ought move the whole damn caboodle over to India and chuck out all the overpaid North Americans except a single fundraiser/PR/whatever.

More Whites exploiting people of darker skin ...

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If anyone was still wondering "why India" for the WMF to be focusing more attention, you need look no further than here:

Is that a joke? India, which actually has a larger middle class than the U.S. (in terms of absolute numbers) was outdonated by Canada (10% of the size of the US) and by SPAIN. That's how much India cares.

The mindset of India is more socialist than any country on that list-- a mindset that says that the internet, like pharmaceuticals, should be more like state utility. I'm amazed they even made it to sixth.

The WMF is interested in India because they want to outsource everything but Sue's private SF residence to there. Sue can run the thing by teleconference-- it's not like she pokes her head into the server rooms near her home anyway. Boy, is Sue going to be unhappy when the board votes her job to Bishakha Datta, who will quit the board to take it. Ms. Datta is, after all, a bigger feminist, and more in touch with India's culture. And has a headstart in knowledge of prostitution, too.

As for Jimbo, having WP's main office in India will hardly affect him. He can give a speech about WP from any base. And as for Wikia in SF, Jimbo stays in Florida and London. I'll bet they don't let him near Wikia, even though he owns some of it. His shares have long been diluted by outside investors to the point that they probably ignore him at Wikia even more than they do at WMF. If he gets paid, it's only because owners get dividends.

There are like, what, one or two Indian admins on en.wp? The rest don't really write in coherent English.

Funny how Asians always get a bad rap.