Dear Jayanta,
It's difficult to work with journalists who may be rushing to meet
submission deadlines and end up mis-quoting the facts or give wrong
details :)
Probably, it may help if you could do a Press-Note and send it to all
the Media agencies. At least they will have the correct details in hand.
All the best!!
Vishnu
On Saturday 21 December 2013 11:44 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become
regular contributors
to its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fair
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fair> next
year. It has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness
programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally, Kolkata fares poorly
when it comes to contribute to the world's biggest online
encyclopedia. At present, the city has only five contributors.
Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only
to the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. "We
would hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to
edit existing material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest incentive for
any contributor is that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits
something, it gets updated and is published for the world to see,"
explained Jayanta Nath, chief of Banglapedia.
The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking
forward to this heavyweight participant.
"Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair," said Tridib
Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild>.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com
<mailto:jayantanth@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
Now another wrong report....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fai…
Jayanta
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