[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Excellent idea, Srikanth! Some twitter handles I could think: IndiaFacts, 
KnowIndia, DYKIndia.

- Sundar
 "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture




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From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>
To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 2:37:58 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.


Hi all,

I am planning to start a twitter account posting one DYK fact related to India 
everyday and a link to the article using a script.There are currently 1200+ DYK 
articles related to India and i have wrote a script to parse the talk pages and 
got around 800+ DYK hooks (my script's regex can be improved and am working on 
that to get all 1200+ hooks). I need your help to further format the hooks to 
120 chars, so that it fits into twitter limit and maintain the tweet queue(just 
like DYK queue), so that my script can post on twitter without manual 
intervention.

I think this could give a boost to visibility and page views of DYK articles 
having good content which otherwise recieve fairly low page views which happens 
only through search since quite a few of them are poorly linked.If this is 
successfull we could probably even use it over free sms service.(now that GPRS 
is getting cheap and penetration is increasing) People following get to know 
trivia and also might give some sort of satisfaction to the DYK creators.

If you could spare some time in helping with maintaining the tweet queue, please 
mail me offlist, we could work on that.

Thoughts / Suggestions on the idea is welcome. Suggestions for the twitter 
account name is also welcome. :) 

Regards,
Srikanth L
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