Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
WDD, If you look thru your mail to a month back, you'll find a link I had sent called Why Wikipedia needs marketers. This would be useful. Also the Bell Pottinger issue and Jimmy Wales' reply to the issue. All of them are in the mailing list December 2011 archives. -- Regards, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Aditya Sengupta
Controversial perhaps- but I think it's pretty important they learn the principles here. I am aware of quite a few PR and SMM agencies that edit Wikipedia and they are generally quite unaware about the principles- and end up being a bigger burden than they would otherwise have been had they known

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability. CoI is much much more important in this context. -- Regards Srikanth.L

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-02 Thread wheredevelsdare
Hi, This is to inform you that Moksh and I have been invited to conduct a one hour workshop this Friday, 6 January 2012 at Text100, a PR firm (who were media partners at WCI 2011). This will be at their Mumbai office and will be relayed live to all their offices across India and possibly

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-02 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, The editing of Wikipedia by PR and social media agencies has been controversial. It might raise eyebrows that you're going to inform them how to edit Wikipedia. However, they will learn to edit even without Wikipedian help. I think it is better to engage than to shy away. Also, suggest that