Yes, my apologies. Karthik also brought this to my attention. I know all of these companies quite well and certainly know the difference between Airtel and Aircel. I consider this a typo mistake on my part. I definitely meant to say Aircel, and we greatly appreciate Aircel's support.
Best Regards, Kul On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am afraid, you must have been referring to Aircel. > AirTel is another telcom provider ( One of the top 3) in India > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Kul Wadhwa <kwad...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < >> arjunar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> 2013/7/26 Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in> >>> >>>> Dear Wikimedians, >>>> >>>> thanking the Wikimedia Foundation for deploying Wikipedia Zero in India >>>> in association with Aircel, I was surprised to see that >>>> >>>> - #IWikiWhen <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWikiWhen&src=tren> was >>>> trending in Twitter India and Mumbai trend-lists. >>>> >>>> >>>> That is because Aircel India is running a contest asking their fans for >>>> the "reason they wiki", and I can see that it has actually worked. They are >>>> giving away HTC One X Phone.[1] Would request everyone to take this up and >>>> tweet about Wikipedia (you can also participate :D)!! People will be >>>> looking at the trending hashtags! :D >>>> >>>> >>>> 1. https://twitter.com/Aircel/status/360361785104166912 >>>> >>>> >>>> Nice promotion from Aircel. >>> It was surprise for me also. I wish the interaction between WMF and >>> Chapter can be improved so that more chapter members and community can >>> support India initiatives better. >>> >>> >> Hi Arunja, >> >> We're glad to see this promotion from Airtel as well. They ran a few >> marketing ideas by us before the launch but we weren't aware of this one in >> advance; we found out the same time as everyone else. We don't have the >> available staff to work with Airtel on these promotions so we rely on them, >> as we do with other partners, to run many of them at their own discretion. >> I also believe it would be great if WMF could coordinate with the chapters >> more but we'll need additional resources to do so. It's definitely worth >> talking about... >> >> Kul >> >> >> -- >> Kul Wadhwa >> Head of Mobile >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile Wikimedia Foundation
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