<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"><DIV>Dear Srikanth,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>good to see this initiative. I used to be among the most active Indian contributors to DYK in 2005-06.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Cheers,<BR>Srinivas.<BR>Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma<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 size=2 face=Tahoma>
<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, 17 August, 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>Twitter :- <A href="http://twitter.com/DYKIndia" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://twitter.com/DYKIndia</A></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>GDocs Tweet Queue :- <A href="http://j.mp/a4ayc3" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://j.mp/a4ayc3</A></DIV>
<DIV>Repository :- <A href="http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter</A></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 href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com">srik.lak@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>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 href="http://j.mp/a4ayc3" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://j.mp/a4ayc3</A></DIV>
<DIV>Repository :- <A href="http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter" rel=nofollow target=_blank>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 href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>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 href="http://j.mp/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>j.mp</A> (<A href="http://bit.ly/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>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 href="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN> wrote: </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>
<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></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div><br></body></html>