I am afraid, you must have been referring to Aircel. AirTel is another telcom provider ( One of the top 3) in India
Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Kul Wadhwa <kwad...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunar...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> 2013/7/26 Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in> >> >>> Dear Wikimedians, >>> >>> thanking the Wikimedia Foundation for deploying Wikipedia Zero in India >>> in association with Aircel, I was surprised to see that >>> >>> - #IWikiWhen <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWikiWhen&src=tren> was >>> trending in Twitter India and Mumbai trend-lists. >>> >>> >>> That is because Aircel India is running a contest asking their fans for >>> the "reason they wiki", and I can see that it has actually worked. They are >>> giving away HTC One X Phone.[1] Would request everyone to take this up and >>> tweet about Wikipedia (you can also participate :D)!! People will be >>> looking at the trending hashtags! :D >>> >>> >>> 1. https://twitter.com/Aircel/status/360361785104166912 >>> >>> >>> Nice promotion from Aircel. >> It was surprise for me also. I wish the interaction between WMF and >> Chapter can be improved so that more chapter members and community can >> support India initiatives better. >> >> > Hi Arunja, > > We're glad to see this promotion from Airtel as well. They ran a few > marketing ideas by us before the launch but we weren't aware of this one in > advance; we found out the same time as everyone else. We don't have the > available staff to work with Airtel on these promotions so we rely on them, > as we do with other partners, to run many of them at their own discretion. > I also believe it would be great if WMF could coordinate with the chapters > more but we'll need additional resources to do so. It's definitely worth > talking about... > > Kul > > > -- > Kul Wadhwa > Head of Mobile > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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