Hey all, I feel bad for not including you on this distribution! We went live yesterday with the Wikimedia Foundation blog - and this is good news. From your ranks we picked two moderators and there will be more work to do. I have a feeling that rallying around this blog is one good, solid first step for comproj. We will be pushing a lot of information, and you're all welcome to help us spread the word by linking on your own blogs or suggesting topics for posts. I think we're almost ready to announce where on Meta that 'suggestion' page will live. More to say soon. For now though, check it out and please do offer your ideas and views! Thanks, jay -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Wikimedia Blog is live Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:56:52 -0700 From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, We are pleased to notify you that today we flipped the switch on the Wikimedia Foundation's official blog! Wikimedia Blog can be found at http://blog.wikimedia.org Some background info: this will be a space for WMF staff to post news and information about the work we're engaged in. We'll also bring in guest contributors, board members etc to post. Comments are pre-moderated for the time being, and we're hoping for lots of civility. Comments will be moderated by several volunteer moderators and staff as necessary. We have some basic posting guidelines (generally short, fairly simple english, conversational etc) so we can keep it reader friendly and useful. We expect a wide audience - media, public, users, you name it! And we'll work hard to keep it interesting - and regular (hopefully posts every other business day). Always welcome your views, and your understanding about our work-in-progress :) Hope you enjoy! Looking forward to hearing your views. Thanks, -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885