<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Congrats once again, Srikanth. Just a thought, shouldn't you keep another private queue (from which the script feeds on) which you populate from the public queue after sanity checking?<br><br>- Sundar<br><div> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, August 17, 2010 2:24:59 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.<br></font><br>
Hi all,<div><br></div><div>We launched this one in #WPMBL17. The twitter account is @DYKIndia. Thanks Sundar for the handle suggestion, this seems short and crisp :)</div><div><br></div><div><span>Twitter :- <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/DYKIndia">http://twitter.com/DYKIndia</a></span></div>
<div><div><span>GDocs Tweet Queue :- <a target="_blank" href="http://j.mp/a4ayc3">http://j.mp/a4ayc3</a></span></div><div><span>Repository :- <a target="_blank" href="http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter">http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Both of the code and tweet queue are open, and please feel free to contribute to them.</div><div><br></div><div>We had discussions on topics surrounding this at the meetup and I will summarize them below.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. This can be on any subject and can be used by many projects like History, Medicine, Countries, etc if there are people to manage the tweet queue.</div><div>2. It would make more successful if the "manual tweet queue" maintenance process is done away with and ask WP:DYK to provide short version of hooks as well going forward. -- Need to go through a proposal i guess. Will be working on this in sometime after gauging the success of this. But counter arguments also came for this and sometimes its better if its manual.</div>
<div>3. Similar app can also used to tweet daily DYKs on a hourly basis and can be face of "Whats new on Wikipedia" in social media.</div><div>4. Possibility of exploring usage of this into Indian languages,challanges like char limit, availability. Need to work on this as well.</div>
<div>5. Possibility of tie-up with mobile operator and making it as a VAS, where in operator gets money, we get outreach / publicity -- Can be taken as a chapter outreach activity once that is formed.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Special thanks to twitter mass hero Tinucherian, we already have 88(and counting) followers and from stats i could see 20 have visited the article(best thing about bitly). We need to observe how the stats go, whats the best time to tweet etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Code has some TODOs yet to make it more generic and comprehensive which i would be working on over next weekend.Python folks feel free to review since its my first python code.</div><div><br></div><div>
Thanks for your support and expecting few RTs from you ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Srikanth L</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have created a shared document from where hooks will be read by the script. Currently it has 574 hooks, i would relook the scrapper script and would keep adding more to the hook preparation area. The spreadsheet is open to edit and please feel free to help.</div>
<div><br></div><div>GDocs Link :- <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://j.mp/a4ayc3">http://j.mp/a4ayc3</a></div><div>Repository :- <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter">http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Srik, I thought it was 140? Or are you deducting 20 for the link?<br></blockquote></div><div><div>Yes 20 chars is for link. As you see above <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://j.mp">j.mp</a> (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly">bit.ly</a>'s brother) takes 18 chars and add 2 spaces.</div>
</div><div class="im"><div> </div><div>On 7 August 2010 18:53, BalaSundaraRaman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Excellent idea, Srikanth! Some twitter handles I could think: IndiaFacts, KnowIndia, DYKIndia.</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div>Thanks for the suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Srikanth L</div></div></div>
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