[WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

[Emily Monroe]

> Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum.

Perhaps I'm obsessing a bit, but clearly Signpost would at least run  
an article about the increase of new users after the news. I would  
assume you would be on Wikipedia longer, though, so yeah.

> These are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so  
> there's certainly more.

True, true.

Emily
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:16 PM, kgnpaul at gmail.com wrote:

> Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum.  These  
> are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so there's  
> certainly more.
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> -- Sent from my Palm Pre
> Emily Monroe wrote:
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>> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to
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>> tell people to please not be BITE-y?
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> *pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D
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>> We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after
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>> reading about things in the news, only to run into someone
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>> unfriendly or rules-bound.
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> I agree. Maybe have a Signpost-like note to everyone subscribed to
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> Signpost? Maybe have that actually in the Signpost? Something like
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> "Editors note: There's an influx of newbies, so please be patient".
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> How will that work?
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> Emily
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> On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM,
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>> kgnpaul at gmail.com<kgnpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking
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>>> about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT.  Here's
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>>> to that.
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>> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to tell
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>> people to please not be BITE-y? No, seriously. We don't want a large
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>> influx of editors arriving to help after reading about things in the
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>> news, only to run into someone unfriendly or rules-bound.
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>> Carcharoth
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