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1. The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle)
+ some citation discussions (Achal Prabhala)
2. The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle)
+ some citation discussions (Achal Prabhala)
3. Re: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR & Media
Relations Team (Ramesh N G)
4. Re: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR & Media
Relations Team (CherianTinu Abraham)
5. Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships deadline: Feb 16
(Jyothis E)
6. towards a Gujurati Wikisource (Gerard Meijssen)
7. Re: Formation of Communications, PR & Media Relations Team
(Naveen Francis)
8. Wikipedia COIMBATORE Meetup 2 [Really short] Report.
(Srikanth Ramakrishnan)
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From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala@gmail.com>
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There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/
It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with
the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia, and I believe the
author would want to have us discuss it) I reproduce it here:
The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
By Timothy Messer-Kruse
For the past 10 years I've immersed myself in the details of one of the
most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and
trial of 1886. Along the way I've written two books and a couple of
articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a
presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
The bomb thrown during an anarchist rally in Chicago sparked America's
first Red Scare, a high-profile show trial, and a worldwide clemency
movement for the seven condemned men. Today the martyrs' graves are a
national historic site, the location of the bombing is marked by a
public sculpture, and the event is recounted in most American history
textbooks. Its Wikipedia entry is detailed and elaborate.
A couple of years ago, on a slow day at the office, I decided to
experiment with editing one particularly misleading assertion chiseled
into the Wikipedia article. The description of the trial stated, "The
prosecution, led by Julius Grinnell, did not offer evidence connecting
any of the defendants with the bombing. ... "
Coincidentally, that is the claim that initially hooked me on the topic.
In 2001 I was teaching a labor-history course, and our textbook
contained nearly the same wording that appeared on Wikipedia. One of my
students raised her hand: "If the trial went on for six weeks and no
evidence was presented, what did they talk about all those days?" I've
been working to answer her question ever since.
I have not resolved all the mysteries that surround the bombing, but I
have dug deeply enough to be sure that the claim that the trial was
bereft of evidence is flatly wrong. One hundred and eighteen witnesses
were called to testify, many of them unindicted co-conspirators who
detailed secret meetings where plans to attack police stations were
mapped out, coded messages were placed in radical newspapers, and bombs
were assembled in one of the defendants' rooms.
In what was one of the first uses of forensic chemistry in an American
courtroom, the city's foremost chemists showed that the metallurgical
profile of a bomb found in one of the anarchists' homes was unlike any
commercial metal but was similar in composition to a piece of shrapnel
cut from the body of a slain police officer. So overwhelming was the
evidence against one of the defendants that his lawyers even admitted
that their client spent the afternoon before the Haymarket rally
building bombs, arguing that he was acting in self-defense.
So I removed the line about there being "no evidence" and provided a
full explanation in Wikipedia's behind-the-scenes editing log. Within
minutes my changes were reversed. The explanation: "You must provide
reliable sources for your assertions to make changes along these lines
to the article."
That was curious, as I had cited the documents that proved my point,
including verbatim testimony from the trial published online by the
Library of Congress. I also noted one of my own peer-reviewed articles.
One of the people who had assumed the role of keeper of this bit of
history for Wikipedia quoted the Web site's "undue weight" policy, which
states that "articles should not give minority views as much or as
detailed a description as more popular views." He then scolded me. "You
should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to
replace it with a minority view."
The "undue weight" policy posed a problem. Scholars have been publishing
the same ideas about the Haymarket case for more than a century. The
last published bibliography of titles on the subject has 1,530 entries.
"Explain to me, then, how a 'minority' source with facts on its side
would ever appear against a wrong 'majority' one?" I asked the
Wiki-gatekeeper. He responded, "You're more than welcome to discuss
reliable sources here, that's what the talk page is for. However, you
might want to have a quick look at Wikipedia's civility policy."
I tried to edit the page again. Within 10 seconds I was informed that my
citations to the primary documents were insufficient, as Wikipedia
requires its contributors to rely on secondary sources, or, as my critic
informed me, "published books." Another editor cheerfully tutored me in
what this means: "Wikipedia is not 'truth,' Wikipedia is 'verifiability'
of reliable sources. Hence, if most secondary sources which are taken as
reliable happen to repeat a flawed account or description of something,
Wikipedia will echo that."
Tempted to win simply through sheer tenacity, I edited the page again.
My triumph was even more fleeting than before. Within seconds the page
was changed back. The reason: "reverting possible vandalism." Fearing
that I would forever have to wear the scarlet letter of Wikipedia
vandal, I relented but noted with some consolation that in the wake of
my protest, the editors made a slight gesture of reconciliation?they
added the word "credible" so that it now read, "The prosecution, led by
Julius Grinnell, did not offer credible evidence connecting any of the
defendants with the bombing. ... " Though that was still inaccurate, I
decided not to attempt to correct the entry again until I could clear
the hurdles my anonymous interlocutors had set before me.
So I waited two years, until my book on the trial was published. "Now,
at last, I have a proper Wikipedia leg to stand on," I thought as I
opened the page and found at least a dozen statements that were factual
errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources. I
found myself hesitant to write, eerily aware that the self-deputized
protectors of the page were reading over my shoulder, itching to revert
my edits and tutor me in Wiki-decorum. I made a small edit, testing the
waters.
My improvement lasted five minutes before a Wiki-cop scolded me, "I hope
you will familiarize yourself with some of Wikipedia's policies, such as
verifiability and undue weight. If all historians save one say that the
sky was green in 1888, our policies require that we write 'Most
historians write that the sky was green, but one says the sky was blue.'
... As individual editors, we're not in the business of weighing claims,
just reporting what reliable sources write."
I guess this gives me a glimmer of hope that someday, perhaps before
another century goes by, enough of my fellow scholars will adopt my
views that I can change that Wikipedia entry. Until then I will have to
continue to shout that the sky was blue.
Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor in the School of Cultural and
Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is author of The
Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded
Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and The Haymarket Conspiracy:
Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, to be published later this year by the
University of Illinois Press.
---
Two things that the article relates to, currently happening/ in proposal:
A discussion on oral citations (recently revived):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Oral_Citations
A proposal to examine citations, including the use of 'primary sources':
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/InCite
---
Cheers,
Achal
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:20 +0530
From: Ramesh N G <rameshng@gmail.com>
To: wmin-members@googlegroups.com
Cc: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
<wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, socialmedia@wikimedia.in,
wikimedia-in-exec@lists.wikimedia.org, communications@wikimedia.in
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Formation of
Communications, PR & Media Relations Team
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Good job Tinu.
good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
tinucherian@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Hi all,
> We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
> Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
> - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
> - Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
> - Anirudh Bhati
> - Srikeit Tadepalli
> - Noopur Raval
> - Srikanth Lakshmanan
> - Naveen Francis
> - Pranav Curumsey
> - Ram Shankar Yadav
> - Mitra Sharma
> - Anivar Aravind
>
>
> We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
> and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
>
> *Scope of Work*
>
> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
> the following:
>
> * General :*
>
> - Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications
> Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
> objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
> Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
> - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
> measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
> within India and continuous improvement as required.
> - Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
> agencies as required.
> - Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
> Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
> - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
> and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfcc-l@mail.wikimedia.org
>
>
> * Communications :*
>
> - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
> community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
> - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
> send to the members and the community.
> - Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
> aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
>
>
> * Public/ Media Relations :*
>
> - Coordinating communications with the press, including press
> releases, interviews, and inquiries.
> - Handling press enquiries and answering them.
> - Build a close partnership and working relation with a
> network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
> - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
> interviewed by the media.
> - Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
> published into the mass media.
> - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
> coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
> - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with
> media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
> - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
> coverage, both negative and positive.
> - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
> campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
> - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
> languages.
> - Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
> Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
> Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
>
>
> * Digital Properties/Social Media :*
>
> - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
> education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the
> existing readership base.
> - Social media includes managing and driving social media
> vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
> traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is
> created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
> - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in
> and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
> - Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
> facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
> resources like the wiki, blog and website.
> - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
> sections on the public wiki up to date.
> - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
> - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
>
>
> * Team Structure*
>
>
> - The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media Relations,
> Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid
> position.
> - There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
> Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
> - The above positions will be handled either by a single person or
> two individuals.
> - The Team will be internally divided into Communications , Press
> & Social Media sub-teams.
>
> You can find more information at
> http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
> Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:38:25 +0530
From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian@gmail.com>
To: wmin-members@googlegroups.com, "Discussion list on Indian
language projects of Wikimedia."
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wikimedia-in-exec@lists.wikimedia.org, press@wikimedia.in,
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Formation of
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Thanks SJ, Bishakha , Ramesh and et all.
SJ,
Currently the internal details of the team are only available on the
members wiki ( members.wikimedia.in) . May be I will put it on the public
wiki too ( wiki.wikimedia.in)
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ramesh N G <rameshng@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good job Tinu.
>
> good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
> tinucherian@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
>> Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>
>> - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
>> - Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
>> - Anirudh Bhati
>> - Srikeit Tadepalli
>> - Noopur Raval
>> - Srikanth Lakshmanan
>> - Naveen Francis
>> - Pranav Curumsey
>> - Ram Shankar Yadav
>> - Mitra Sharma
>> - Anivar Aravind
>>
>>
>> We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
>> and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
>>
>> *Scope of Work*
>>
>> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
>> the following:
>>
>> * General :*
>>
>> - Development of a comprehensive multi-language
>> Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the
>> Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include social media,
>> digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and supporting community and
>> chapter outreach.
>> - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
>> measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
>> within India and continuous improvement as required.
>> - Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
>> agencies as required.
>> - Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>> Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>> - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
>> and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfcc-l@mail.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>> * Communications :*
>>
>> - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
>> community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>> - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
>> send to the members and the community.
>> - Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
>> aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
>>
>>
>> * Public/ Media Relations :*
>>
>> - Coordinating communications with the press, including press
>> releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>> - Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>> - Build a close partnership and working relation with a
>> network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>> - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
>> interviewed by the media.
>> - Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
>> published into the mass media.
>> - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
>> coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
>> - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships
>> with media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>> - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
>> coverage, both negative and positive.
>> - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
>> campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
>> - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
>> languages.
>> - Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
>> Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
>> Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
>>
>>
>> * Digital Properties/Social Media :*
>>
>> - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
>> education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the
>> existing readership base.
>> - Social media includes managing and driving social media
>> vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
>> traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is
>> created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>> - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode:
>> #wikimedia-in and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>> - Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
>> facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
>> resources like the wiki, blog and website.
>> - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
>> sections on the public wiki up to date.
>> - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>> - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
>>
>>
>> * Team Structure*
>>
>>
>> - The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media
>> Relations, Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a
>> staff/paid position.
>> - There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
>> Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
>> - The above positions will be handled either by a single person
>> or two individuals.
>> - The Team will be internally divided into Communications , Press
>> & Social Media sub-teams.
>>
>> You can find more information at
>> http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>> Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>
>> --
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:13:48 -0500
From: Jyothis E <jyothis.e@gmail.com>
To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list
<wikiml-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: aude <aude.wiki@gmail.com>, James Hare <messedrocker@gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships
deadline: Feb 16
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FYI
Regards,
Jyothis.
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Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships deadline: Feb 16
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship
is February 16 (23:59 UTC). We encourage you to apply!
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
Full travel scholarships, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters
(France, UK, Israel, Austria), will cover transportation, hostel
accommodations, and conference registration. Partial scholarships are also
offered by WMF (and Wikimedia Hungary).
Wikimania 2012 will take place July 12-15 at the George Washington
University in Washington, DC. The call for participation is also open now
(deadline: March 18), and registration is open.
Cheers,
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:18:04 +0100
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] towards a Gujurati Wikisource
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Hoi,
Now that the localisation for the Gujarati language of the compulsory
messages has been completed, we are moving towards the next steps in this
process. It is really exciting to notice how Wikisource is getting traction
in India. A lot of important work is done and it shows.
I have blogged about it and I find it amusing that there is a logo adapted
for the Gujarati language and not yet for the Marathi language. I also
noticed that WebFonts and Narayam have not yet been configured for the
Marathi Wikisource. I assume that as this beneficial for the project i can
ask for it to be configured.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/towards-gujarati-wikisource.html
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:41 +0530
From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf@wikimedia.in>
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Thanks Bishakha, It is all collaborative effort.
Thanks,
naveenpf
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com>wrote:
> And congratulations, Naveen, on all the portals. Lots of work!
>
> Cheers
> Bishakha
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf@wikimedia.in>wrote:
>
>>
>> All the best for the communication team !!!
>>
>> Hi Bishakha,
>>
>> We will be rolling out Administration and Fundraising teams very soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> naveenpf
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Bishakha Datta <
>> bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The scope of work looks extremely comprehensive and impressive -
>>> congratulations on the formation of this team. And if past experience is
>>> anything to go by, may it continue to go from strength to strength.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Bishakha
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
>>> tinucherian@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
>>>> Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>>>
>>>> - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
>>>> - Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
>>>> - Anirudh Bhati
>>>> - Srikeit Tadepalli
>>>> - Noopur Raval
>>>> - Srikanth Lakshmanan
>>>> - Naveen Francis
>>>> - Pranav Curumsey
>>>> - Ram Shankar Yadav
>>>> - Mitra Sharma
>>>> - Anivar Aravind
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are
>>>> interested and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we
>>>> progress.
>>>>
>>>> *Scope of Work*
>>>>
>>>> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
>>>> the following:
>>>>
>>>> * General :*
>>>>
>>>> - Development of a comprehensive multi-language
>>>> Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the
>>>> Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include social media,
>>>> digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and supporting community and
>>>> chapter outreach.
>>>> - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
>>>> measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
>>>> within India and continuous improvement as required.
>>>> - Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
>>>> agencies as required.
>>>> - Build a close partnership with the Community and
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation India Programs to support communications and media
>>>> outreach.
>>>> - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications
>>>> committee and subscribed to its mailing list:
>>>> wmfcc-l@mail.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Communications :*
>>>>
>>>> - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
>>>> community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>>>> - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that
>>>> is send to the members and the community.
>>>> - Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on
>>>> all aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Public/ Media Relations :*
>>>>
>>>> - Coordinating communications with the press, including
>>>> press releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>>>> - Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>>>> - Build a close partnership and working relation with a
>>>> network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>>>> - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
>>>> interviewed by the media.
>>>> - Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting
>>>> them published into the mass media.
>>>> - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
>>>> coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
>>>> - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships
>>>> with media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>>>> - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
>>>> coverage, both negative and positive.
>>>> - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
>>>> campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
>>>> - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian
>>>> local languages.
>>>> - Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
>>>> Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
>>>> Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Digital Properties/Social Media :*
>>>>
>>>> - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
>>>> education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the
>>>> existing readership base.
>>>> - Social media includes managing and driving social media
>>>> vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
>>>> traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is
>>>> created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>>>> - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode:
>>>> #wikimedia-in and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>>>> - Maintain the social media properties including the ones
>>>> on facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
>>>> resources like the wiki, blog and website.
>>>> - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
>>>> sections on the public wiki up to date.
>>>> - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>>>> - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter,
>>>> WikiPatrika
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Team Structure*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media
>>>> Relations, Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a
>>>> staff/paid position.
>>>> - There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
>>>> Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
>>>> - The above positions will be handled either by a single person
>>>> or two individuals.
>>>> - The Team will be internally divided into Communications ,
>>>> Press & Social Media sub-teams.
>>>>
>>>> You can find more information at
>>>> http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Tinu Cherian
>>>> Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>>>
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:58:52 -0800
From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India Community list
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia COIMBATORE Meetup 2 [Really
short] Report.
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I've BCC'ed all attendees of the Meetup.
Hey,
The Second Wikipedia Meetup in COIMBATORE was help on Sunday, the 12th of
February 2012, from 11am to 2pm at the KGISL Institute of Technology
[KITE], Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-35.
The meetup was attended by 5 people including me.
Bala [User:SodaBottle] was unable to attend as he was busy with some other
work.
All the attendees [except me] were Engineering Students. We started of with
a basic introductory session to what Wikipedia is, and how it works.
I mostly echoed what Bala had said in the last meetup.
We moved on to how the Community runs, how an individual benefits from
contribution [the usual enhancement of skills, improvement of language
stuff].
After this, I took some time to explain what Wikipedia is NOT, including
answering one question:
Why does the Kolaveri video not exist on Wikipedia inspite of being World
Famous?
This was what we spoke about.
The computer we were provided with didn't work and there was noone from the
administrative staff to help out since it was a Sunday, so we let it go.
That was all that happened.
We hope that by next meetup, we'll have more active members.
Last time, there was me from English and Bala from Tamil. THis time
Shanmugam from Tamil.
We sincerely hope more people join us.
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
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