On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 15:01, Aditya Sengupta <apsengu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G <nagar...@gnowledge.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < >> pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have >>> spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - >>> #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we >>> encourage this. >>> >>> We'd like to correct the error. >>> >>> >> this was posted by CherianTinu abrakham: >> >> *Penn-Olson : "Its Wikipedia Season in India"* >> http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/07/wikipedia-indi/ >> >> *Wikipedia is now all set for it’s first WikiConference in India which is >> scheduled to be held in Mumbai on November 18th, 2011. Delegates from any >> country can participate, but the conference will be quite India-centric, >> according to the event page on Wikimedia.* >> * >> * >> *Here’s a quick overview of the schedule for the WikiConference which >> will act as a platform for Indian Wikimedians and Wikipedians to meet, >> discuss, and share their opinions regarding Wikipedia India issues, >> Indian language projects on Wikipedia, and discuss affairs in the >> Wikicommunity in India and abroad.* >> * >> * >> *Date 18th to 20th November, 2011* >> *Venue Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) & associated >> rooms* >> *Accommodation Sea Green Hotel and Chateau Windsor hotel (for those who >> receive scholarships)* >> *Hosts Mumbai and Pune Wikipedia communitites, Wikimedia India branch* >> *Sponsors Wikimedia Foundation, Eregnow.com* >> *Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter >> account* >> > > The "Twitter account" mentioned here actually links (in the original > article) only to a Twitter search: > http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wci11<http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23wci11>(the > search for the hashtag, #wc11), not an actual Twitter account, per se. > That said, the Wikimedia page from which they've picked up this info ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011) makes no mention of an "account", it only links to the hashtag. The author of the post at Penn-Olson is just probably not acquainted enough with Twitter. :-)
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