[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or pressrelease?

[Peter Southwood]

There are two immediately obvious possibilities for this.
1    GMT/Universal time, which would be relatively unsurprising to most, as 
it is traditionally the zero offset timezone.
2    +12  so that New Zealand and other extreme east timezone users would 
see something when the time arrives.
A more complex option would be to link to the user's timezone and release 
when that reaches the relevant time. This may not be feasible or even 
particularly useful.
Linking to a time zone which is tomorrow for half the world would be 
counterproductive, better early than late.
I would recommend GMT as least surprise option.
Cheers,
Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lodewijk" <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or 
pressrelease?


> Hi,
>
> maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the
> timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international 
> climate
> in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and
> when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be
> confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments
> (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the
> countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue
> would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though.
>
> Best,
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2013/1/15 Matthew Roth <mroth at wikimedia.org>
>
>> Drat, my apologies. I forwarded to Wikimedia-l and neglected to send 
>> here.
>> Busy morning :/
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Matthew distributed the release and the blog post this morning (around
>> 0900
>> > PT), it should have made its way to this list as well:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage
>> >
>> >
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/
>> >
>> > Also, happy birthday, Wikipedia! And welcome to our new friends at
>> > Wikivoyage :)
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Stevie Benton <
>> > stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi Tom et al,
>> > >
>> > > There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800
>> > > PST...
>> > >
>> > > It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the 
>> > > appointed
>> > > hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally 
>> > > prepared.
>> > >
>> > > Hope this is helpful,
>> > >
>> > > Stevie
>> > >
>> > > On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the
>> > > reasoning
>> > > > behind it.
>> > > >
>> > > > I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing.
>> > > >
>> > > > Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and
>> > also
>> > > > found... nothing.
>> > > >
>> > > > Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the
>> > > official
>> > > > launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my
>> > > enquiring
>> > > > friends to "oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it", 
>> > > > but
>> > > > apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it.
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Tom Morris
>> > > > <http://tommorris.org/>
>> > > >
>> > > >
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