On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Thank you.
This body of data is fascinatingly insightful. I should hope the foundation
folks are taking notes. I will ensure I represent this point about the
consequences of social media personally with the greatest intensity I can
gather to the appropriate foundation folks during my next trip to Delhi.