Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Agreed. We can't have articles for eachand every college fest. I said the same thing at NITT. Though I believe Pragyan scraped thru the Notability border because it was ISO certified. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. We can't have articles for eachand every college fest. I said the same thing at NITT. Though I believe Pragyan scraped thru the Notability border because it was ISO certified. That simply depends on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Hisham
On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Deepon Saha wrote: I too think we should conc. more on quality than quantity. If we get 4/5 interested students from a session (be it only 5% or 10%) then we should take good care to support them keep them motivated.. Good point..:-) Hey, Deepon, I totally

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Oh, so that's where Tunde Ke Kabab came from! I tried to get support to bring it to DYK, but didn't have time after that. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Deepon Saha wrote: I too think we should conc. more on quality than

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Hisham
On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Oh, so that's where Tunde Ke Kabab came from! strictly speaking, the Tunde ke Kabab came from Lucknow... ;-) (sorry, couldn't resist) and *ducks for cover while a mailing list admin hunts him down* The article's got 8 editors

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hisham, Very nicely put. Just a question: Do people who organise outreach events, use a little Humour in your talking? IT helps greatly in keeping people interested. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hisham, it seems you now owe the community tunde ke kabab during the next bash. ;) Srikanth, do humour only if you can do it. It should be used sparingly, like salt. Its counter-productive if it falls flat. Better that instructors/volunteers should be positive, smiling and enthu while editing to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Hisham
On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: Hisham, it seems you now owe the community tunde ke kabab during the next bash. ;) Considering that Shiju is trying to get support to improve the health of the community, tunde ke kabab I suspect would be ill-advised. Now on the other

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 17:57, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: It doesn't have to be English if you're not comfortable. It shouldn't be English if either you / audience are uncomfortable and both have a better comfort level in another language. -- Regards Srikanth.L

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-12 Thread Deepon Saha
I too think we should conc. more on quality than quantity. If we get 4/5 interested students from a session (be it only 5% or 10%) then we should take good care to support them keep them motivated.. Good point..:-) Deepon On Mar 12, 2012 11:04 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi

2012-03-12 Thread Konarak Ratnakar
@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report: Wiki workshop @ IIT Delhi I too think we should conc. more on quality than quantity. If we get 4/5 interested students from a session (be it only 5% or 10%) then we should take good care to support them keep them motivated.. Good point