Here you go:
Maybe this is just with me, I don't have a great audience on Twitter, and I
doubt it if anyone else has tried this:
Take the case of Actor Siddharth. His article on enwiki used to say
Siddharth Narayan. He tweeted out [Verified account] saying that his name
was Siddharth Suryanarayan and not Narayan. User:FilmLover1426 changed the
name but when it came to moving the page, she told me, "I need to contact
some one to have it changed", inspite of me telling her, she could do it
herself. Then, there came an issue of Reliable sources, she argued that the
tweets would be sufficient.
Another case, this time more successsful, would be of the Bangalore
Helicopter pictures. I found it on Twitter, got in touch with the fellow
who uploaded, but got no result. But then, a friend of his, who accompanied
him on the ride, had uploaded to FlickR, and thanks to a mail sent by me,
AroundTheGlobe and AshLin, he released his images under CC-BY-SA.
I'd concentrate more on socio-economic forums online than Twitter for
getting new people to Wikipedia.
Getting Wikipedians to Twitter is easy, the reverse is a bit tough.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Aditya Sengupta <apsengupta(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 15:14, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd send it privately as a mil to you alone.
I did it as a volunteer.
Remember, the WMF has hired someone to do the same. They may have more
'working' ideas.
Of course. Of course.
But perhaps an explanation of your very valuable experience on this matter
might help save everyone who is 'working' on these things some time and
effort, no? It would be so helpful of you to do this, so that everyone
involved can say that it is pointless to work on social media efforts
because of such and such reasons; instead of "because Srikanth Ramakrishnan
said so" (I'm sure you are correct, nonetheless).
I beg you send the email to the list for everyone's welfare. So that I am
not alone in learning how to use (or not to use) this Twitter thingy. In
the spirit of Wikipedia and sharing knowledge and all that.
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