LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This
is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and
only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-).
But it's not too bad, except for the staff checking things round the
clock part ;-)
Erik
No worries Erik, Indian media is known for misquoting :)
Last time a journo asked me on what are the chances of foundation office in
Bangalore. I said Bangalore has ( probably) a fair chance , considering the
presence of a vibrant Wiki-community chapter office here. The next day's
headline was
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
But it's not too bad, except for the staff checking things round the
clock part ;-)
*must not sleep and go check content every single hour of the day*
LOL
:P
--Kul
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:
No worries Erik, Indian media is known for misquoting :)
Please let's not generalize the problem of mis quoting and then
specifically use it as a pejorative within the context of the Indian
media. Anyone who reads
That headline might have actually ended up getting readers to read the
news article and help in publicizing in some way.
I agree to that. As some PR folks says, there is nothing like bad or good
publicity . The article anyways attracted lots of eye balls , that helped in
our outreach.
- Tinu
