Apologies if your receiving this more than once, I thought its important to forward this to other lists as well, since editing by PR firms has been discussed quite a bit recently.

From: wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:02:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Mumbai Workshop 2

Slightly late in the day, but I thought it would be good to share this with everyone. A few days after we had the Workshop @ Text100, they blogged about it here: http://text100.com/hypertext/2012/01/wikipedia-for-pr/

From: wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:38:22 +0000 Subject: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Mumbai Workshop 2

Moksh and I went to the Text100 office at Nariman Point on 6 January 2012. Aprox 25 people attended the Workshop in person which was webcast live to Text100 offices in Delhi and Bangalore. Through the 1 hour Workshop we covered the below and answered several questions raised by attendees.

We covered the following:

1. Wikipedia Philosophy/5 Pillars (and that we do not have editorial control, that admins are nothing but editors with additional responsibilities. On what is done when there is an issue we explained the process upto Arbcom and that Jimbo has a veto which he has never used so far and has stated that he doesnt think he will). 2. Licensing (Explained Wikipedia is free licensed under CC-BY-SA) 3. What Wikipedia is NOT 4. NPOV/YESPOV 5. Be Bold and edit anything that is incorrect

6. Etiquette/AGF 7. Tutorial (Editing/Citations etc) 8. RS 9. CoI (Bell Pottinger affair)

Moksh also gave a live editing example and we showed them how to sign on a page with 4 tides (the attendees had actually typed their names on the Wiki page for the workshop).

One of the participants mentioned official company photos on Wikipedia articles. Explained that such photos on have been donated to Commons and suggested that Text100 could also donate their photo archives to Commons, which would be useful for several articles. They sounded positive on this aspect - will be following up with them on this.

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