Hi,
This is to inform you that Moksh and I have been invited to conduct a one hour workshop this Friday, 6 January 2012 at Text100, a PR firm (who were media partners at WCI 2011). This will be at their Mumbai office and will be relayed live to all their offices across India and possibly other countries as well.
We will be talking about the Wikipedia Philosophy/5 Pillars, Reliable sources, editing tutorial and COI - what to avoid etc. Any suggestions on other inclusions would be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
hi,
The editing of Wikipedia by PR and social media agencies has been controversial. It might raise eyebrows that you're going to inform them how to edit Wikipedia. However, they will learn to edit even without Wikipedian help. I think it is better to engage than to shy away.
Also, suggest that some or all of them who attend the Workshop be invited for the city meetups and even join the mailing lists.
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On 03/01/2012, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This is to inform you that Moksh and I have been invited to conduct a one hour workshop this Friday, 6 January 2012 at Text100, a PR firm (who were media partners at WCI 2011). This will be at their Mumbai office and will be relayed live to all their offices across India and possibly other countries as well.
We will be talking about the Wikipedia Philosophy/5 Pillars, Reliable sources, editing tutorial and COI - what to avoid etc. Any suggestions on other inclusions would be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
WDD, If you look thru your mail to a month back, you'll find a link I had sent called Why Wikipedia needs marketers. This would be useful. Also the Bell Pottinger issue and Jimmy Wales' reply to the issue. All of them are in the mailing list December 2011 archives.
Controversial perhaps- but I think it's pretty important they learn the principles here.
I am aware of quite a few PR and SMM agencies that edit Wikipedia and they are generally quite unaware about the principles- and end up being a bigger burden than they would otherwise have been had they known the process ahead of time.
I welcome this endeavour by P. and Moksh.
I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 13:07, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohandas@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
The editing of Wikipedia by PR and social media agencies has been controversial. It might raise eyebrows that you're going to inform them how to edit Wikipedia. However, they will learn to edit even without Wikipedian help. I think it is better to engage than to shy away.
Also, suggest that some or all of them who attend the Workshop be invited for the city meetups and even join the mailing lists.
Pradeep User:.Prad2609
Handheld
On 03/01/2012, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This is to inform you that Moksh and I have been invited to conduct a one hour workshop this Friday, 6 January 2012 at Text100, a PR firm (who were media partners at WCI 2011). This will be at their Mumbai office and will be relayed live to all their offices across India and possibly other countries as well.
We will be talking about the Wikipedia Philosophy/5 Pillars, Reliable sources, editing tutorial and COI - what to avoid etc. Any suggestions on other inclusions would be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
-- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@gmail.com wrote:
I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability.
CoI is much much more important in this context.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@gmail.comwrote:
I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability.
CoI is much much more important in this context.
I'd have said CoI would have been more tan sufficient had I been asked
this a couple of months ago- but no, the problems are more fundamental. Quite often, it is not clear to them that an entity should not have a page in the first place; when they put up a page, they often simply copy text right over from a press release or the client's website; and the sources used (if at all) are usually first/second party.
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