Dear all,
Please find the responses inline
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Even these answers would be interesting for me. Hope
we get them soon.
On 2 Jun 2012 11:04, "Anirudh Bhati" <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
>> Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for
>> the India Programs team which I have listed under, would appreciate if you
>> could respond:
>>
>> 1. How do you plan on scaling the Social Media pilot beyond your own
>> networks?
>>
>
The Social Media Pilot does not run on our personal
networks. However,
>> given the interstitial nature of social networks, we might have mutual
>> friends with people. Otherwise, most of these participants are people from
>> previous outreach sessions and users who had 'liked' our various pages
and
>> activities but did not know what to do after that.
>>
>
Coming to the scaling bit, even outside the current
network, I welcome you
>> and all other Wikipedians to help us spread the word and even add a few
>> friends of yours who might be interested in learning about Wikipedia. The
>> next steps are to reach out to interest groups on social networks, such as
>> - and this is purely by way of example - groups that are interested in
>> railways or modern Indian art, etc and see if the profile of members of
>> these groups is such that there might be potential new editors and explore
>> if we can generate curiosity in these members to join our group.
>>
>
The work that has been done on Odia and already done
(at least building
>> the group, if not the more methodical approach to encouraging new editor)
>> on Kannada point to the potential of interest groups. Kannada - for
>> instance - already has 2000+ members. In both these cases, they drew
>> members from people who were active or interested in language interest
>> social groups (in these cases, the interest is the language itself.)
>>
>
Additionally, social media is being used in various
ways by communities
>> across India including the Assamese, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam and we
>> want to observe them, how they reach out to people, what works and what
>> doesn't before we make more interventions.
>>
>
>>
> 2. Do you believe you can effectively create a mechanism for recruitment
>> of editors through this project in a manner that justifies the cost and
>> time involved? I am asking this because I noticed that you make serious
>> attempts at trying to convince users to edit Wikipedia pages.
>>
>
There is a fine difference between convincing people
to edit Wikipedia and
>> going that extra mile to help them out. In my humble opinion if these are
>> users who have previously liked various pages of ours and activities, the
>> former is already achieved. However, if they lost interest or simply saw no
>> new activity happening on the page, it is useful to tell them we are doing
>> something new. Unlike physical outreach, we are able to resolve internet
>> issues, barriers of consumption, familiarity and individual engagement.
>> Remember how Anirudh and I answered Commons queries for the Ahmedabad photo
>> walk? I am happy to say that of those we actually ended up meeting 2
>> (correct me if I am mistaken) long term editors.
>>
>
The major effort I put into social media was analysing
the way the various
>> Facebook pages were functioning, what were the challenges & opportunities,
>> how we could construct a set of guidelines and walking community members
>> through these guidelines - which I detailed out as part of a very specific
>> nearly 20 point plan here (
>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Pro…
>> )
>>
>
3. How many hours per week do you spend on the
Wikipedia support group?
>>
>
As is with the pervasive nature of social media
networks and the stuff we
>> do on them, there is no way you can tell the actual time spent. I also
>> answers queries of people on Saturday and Sunday just because I want to
>> help and that doesn't depend on my office timings. Similarly, as explained
>> earlier, mentors come in and go out depending on their schedules. Going
>> further though, we'd love to scale it to a point where only mentors can
>> handle the group and actually make meaningful relationships with new
>> editors. I invite you as well to join in as a mentor and would love to have
>> a Skype call with you.
>>
>
Just to give you a sense of what all is happening on
Communications
simultaneously - I have worked on
Wikipatrika<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>,
supporting the Malayalam conference, the Assamese 10th anniversary, the
Kannada 10th anniversary, the Nepali 9th anniversary as well as stories
that we have published for the Tamil media
contest<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/20/postcard-from-the-tamil-co…y/>,
the Gujarati
Wikisource<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/>(and
Indic
Wikisources<http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-…
general), a
profile of
Netha<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-lan…s/>,
press for Wiki Pune club AND worked on social
media<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_…ia>.
Of course, needless to mention that I also work on the monthly reports,
press updates, twitter/FB updates, build press contacts for English and
Indic languages in various states and solicit press partnerships. I am not
sure if you know but, Harsh has been trying to get a series of outreach
sessions going in Ahmedabad and I've been trying to get him school/college
participation and even proposed starting a Wiki club in Ahmedabad. Similar
for Hindi, a few Hindi editors have written to me offlist to see how they
could utilize social media platforms more effectively too.
To Hisham and the rest of the India Program team: I am still waiting for
answers to these questions. They were asked with seriousness, and they
deserve your serious consideration.
Just a little something that I happened to read yesterday:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-31/the-future-of-facebook-is-i…
Best,
Noopur
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