Hisham,
Very nicely put.
Just a question:
Do people who organise outreach events, use a little Humour in your
talking?
IT helps greatly in keeping people interested.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Oh, so that's where Tunde Ke Kabab came from!
strictly speaking, the Tunde ke
Kabab<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunde_ke_Kabab>
came
from Lucknow... ;-)
(sorry, couldn't resist) and *ducks for cover while a mailing list admin
hunts him down*
The article's got 8 editors contributing 20+ edits over 5 days. That's
not earth-shattering but it's so encouraging to see!
It was also one of those rare moments where a newbie in an outreach
session got a chance to create an article. I usually discourage newbies
from getting too fussed about creating an article and try and get them to
edit existing articles - but this time we just got lucky.
I tried to get support to bring it to DYK, but didn't have time after
that.
I'm sure it would be a great DYK candidate but it's got a long way to go
to hit the 1,500 mark.
For folks on the mailing list who don't know
DYK<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know>ow>,
it stands for Did You Know, and it's a series of interesting facts from new
or recently expanded articles on Wikipedia. If you ever run into acronyms
on this mailing list (or any other), just check where you go for everything
else: Wikipedia!
Happy Editing!
*hisham*
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mar 12, 2012 11:04 PM, "Nitika" <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
During the session we edited the article on Chacha
Chowdhary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacha_Chowdhary> and
one of the participants started an article on
tunde ke
kabab<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunde_ke_Kabab>
.
It's really essential to do actual editing on article - and get the
participants themselves to edit. You should have seen the look of pride on
the participants with every edit. Large groups in outreach sessions become
unmanageable - so we should focus on smaller groups.
*
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
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