Hisham, it seems you now owe the community "tunde ke kabab" during the next bash. ;)

Srikanth, do humour only if you can do it. It should be used sparingly, like salt. Its counter-productive if it falls flat.

Better that instructors/volunteers should be positive, smiling and enthu while editing to get similar effects.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
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@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 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, 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@wikimedia.org> wrote:



On Mar 12, 2012 11:04 PM, "Nitika" <ntandon@wikimedia.org> wrote:

During the session we edited the article on Chacha Chowdhary and one of the participants started an article on 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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