Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

This episode illustrates the pitfalls of treating text documentation as reliable, without the 'surround' of supporting non-textual documentation such as audio. video and pictures. Even casual readers of history, like myself, can easily detect the contradictions in the retelling of events, right dow

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

This one was also particularly complex because a seemingly authentic source, the Anti Terrorist Squad's interrogation of Kasab, listed his birthday as July 13, so many media outlets, including the Washington Post wen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

Yes, like Achal and Ramesh said, the experimental oral citations are being used in those languages and the communities are discussing it. Btw you can the see the copy of print version here. http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epaperpdf/24072011/23sunday-pg6-0.pdf or http://twitpic.com/5v09sw/full of the ar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

Just to add to this, there are a few articles in each researched language (Malayalam, Hindi, Sepedi) in development, all of which use oral citations, and each of which will be catalogued on the research page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects/Oral_Citations (As of now, there are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

There is one Malayalam articlewhere we already used oral citation User:Rameshng On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > *“We have started using oral citations for non-controversial content. A > tayyam dance form has been documen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

*“We have started using oral citations for non-controversial content. A tayyam dance form has been documented using such citations of proponents,” says Cherian, who is also at the forefront of creating Wikipedia content in Indian languages. * We have already started using oral citations? anirudh

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

*DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion* http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_mumbai-blasts-ajmal-kasab-s-birthday-confusion_1568800 *As Mumbai reeled under shock, despair and anger over being attacked again on July 13, a message started clogging the jammed telephone networks and