Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/131210-Erik-Moller-Wikipedia-Pune.htm
Regards Tinu Cherian
LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-). But it's not too bad, except for the "staff checking things round the clock" part ;-)
Erik
2010/12/13 CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com:
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
But it's not too bad, except for the "staff checking things round the clock" part ;-)
That could probably be an off-shoot of the discussions around censorship, validation tools and so forth.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
But it's not too bad, except for the "staff checking things round the clock" part ;-)
*must not sleep and go check content every single hour of the day*
LOL
:P
--Kul
No worries Erik, Indian media is known for misquoting :)
Last time a journo asked me on what are the chances of foundation office in Bangalore. I said Bangalore has ( probably) a fair chance , considering the presence of a vibrant Wiki-community & chapter office here. The next day's headline was "Bangalore set to have Wikimedia office " :)
-Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-). But it's not too bad, except for the "staff checking things round the clock" part ;-)
Erik
2010/12/13 CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com:
Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/131210-Erik-Moller-Wikipedia-Pune.htm
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
No worries Erik, Indian media is known for misquoting :)
Please let's not generalize the problem of mis quoting and then specifically use it as a pejorative within the context of the Indian media. Anyone who reads through various news sources realizes that perspectives and points of view differs within media houses and, putting a spin on things is global.
Last time a journo asked me on what are the chances of foundation office in Bangalore. I said Bangalore has ( probably) a fair chance , considering the presence of a vibrant Wiki-community & chapter office here. The next day's headline was "Bangalore set to have Wikimedia office " :)
That headline might have actually ended up getting readers to read the news article and help in publicizing in some way.
"That headline might have actually ended up getting readers to read the news article and help in publicizing in some way."
I agree to that. As some PR folks says, there is nothing like bad or good publicity . The article anyways attracted lots of eye balls , that helped in our outreach.
- Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:36 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian@gmail.com
wrote:
"That headline might have actually ended up getting readers to read the news article and help in publicizing in some way."
I agree to that. As some PR folks says, there is nothing like bad or good publicity . The article anyways attracted lots of eye balls , that helped in our outreach.
- Tinu Cherian
It does help to be careful when responding to media. Also asking them to validate quotes also helps, especially story titles.
Many of them do extend the courtesy of verifying quotes and facts, when specifically requested.
While PR for spreading the word about Wikipedia and its objectives surely helps, it helps even more when the right message gets across.
best regards Arun
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