It will predominantly be something I, or the staff, use to share
information that might not necessarily warrant use of a press release.
That's a very vague way to describe it, but it represents one of the key
considerations.
With comments it will also be a means for people to ask questions,
generate discussion.
My biggest hope is to put good news from signpost etc on there.
Signpost is great, but public/media might not be able to get to it
quickly. This way they come to the WMF wiki and the blog should be very
visible, easy to find.
I also see good reason to share other posts on the planet wikimedia
page, or other people we're friendly with.
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
Sean Whitton wrote:
Quick question - who is to post to this blog? Will it
be moderated
selections from
http://planet.wikimedia.org/ ?
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all - I know there have been challenges in getting this group going -
> and I thank Sean and the others for their patience.
>
> Barring an IRC meeting (and I do want to participate there as well) I
> have a couple of quick questions.
>
> How many do we have on this group list altogether? I should probably be
> able to find that out on the list page.
>
> Secondly, we've now got the software in place for a wordpress blog at
>
blog.wikimedia.org. It's in the freezer for now (i.e. not operating :)
> but not for long.
>
> What I'm wondering is if we have any pros on this list, or if we could
> recruit someone, who could revamp the graphics template slightly to make
> it look a bit more wikimedia-esque. It will always be on a page all its
> own, but I'd at least like it to look/feel as much like the WMF wiki as
> possible.
>
> Eventually we want to unleash some new mediawiki coding/functionality
> that will allow us to have blogging convention built right into the
> mediawiki system - so there'd be no transition. I suspect a huge number
> of media wiki users would treasure this option.
>
> Any thoughts? Let's discuss...
>
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> Jay Walsh
> Head of Communications
>
WikimediaFoundation.org
> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
>
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