Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-11 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Simplest way is to attend events as said. Or, you could get one IFF, you have a friend like I do [Tinu] who giftede me one for New Year 2010. Alternatively, you could be like me today. I've outgrown both my Wikipedia T-shirts and hence I pin my Wikipedia badge [thanks to Sohan and Naveen for givi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Perhaps something like street theatre? Pradeep Handheld On Mar 10, 2012 4:35 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > > I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or > > ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their > minds: > > If you DIDN'T show them a p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or > ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds: If you DIDN'T show them a ppt, the chance that it WAS fruitful is a lot HIGHER :) If you spoke about so much things to these people, then most li

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/10 Yuvi Panda : > Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. > I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person > serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word > 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read (Kannada and Hindi, I >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read (Kannada and Hindi, I believe?) - he could not read th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Adethya Sudarsanan
Dear All, If you guys won't think I am repeating a similar incident like Deba and Sri, i had a similar experience too... After our WikiConference @ Mumbai, I traveled on Kingfisher flight back to my place (Chennai, I am from Chennai btw). I am usually a last minute guy.. so I went to the airport

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread ansuman
On 10 March 2012 14:04, nischay nahata wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently been involved with Wikimedia activities and would like to > know who gets a Wikipedia T-shirt? > Or rather how do I get a wikipedia T-shirt > Keep attending Wikimedia Events. Best (or I should say Only) way to get one :-) >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread nischay nahata
Hi, I have recently been involved with Wikimedia activities and would like to know who gets a Wikipedia T-shirt? Or rather how do I get a wikipedia T-shirt Nischay Nahata 3rd year Dept. of IT NITK, Surathkal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediain

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-09 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Brilliant! I too had got questions when I wore my old Wikipedia t-shirt in Coimbatore and Chennai. Only, I never managed to explain properly and it was in a Local Bus [in CBE] and train [in CHN]. I'd sure love to board a Duronto, just because it is non stop and I have a long time on board it to do

[Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-09 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
Hello all, I am sending this mail, as I am soon going to be leaving for Kolkata and as such a particular incident reminded me how we can do a free of cost basic outreach, to spread the word about Wikipedia. The incident occurred when I was traveling from Mumbai to Kolkata, just after the conferenc