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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Hisham Mundol <<a href="mailto:hmundol@wikimedia.org">hmundol@wikimedia.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Press Coverage: Request for Voices & Faces!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 12, 2011 3:38:04 PM GMT+05:30<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Wikimedia India Community list <<a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">CherianTinu Abraham <<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>>, Moka Pantages <<a href="mailto:mpantages@wikimedia.org">mpantages@wikimedia.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Folks<div><br></div><div>In the last couple of days, we've had a couple of really insightful, well-written articles on Wikipedia and you, the community. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><pre><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Monaco;color:#084EE6">http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="color:#084EE6"><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp">http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp</a></span></span></p></pre></span></div><div>I want to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes work of Tinu and Moka. (Most of you know Tinu - who's a community member based out of Bangalore. For those of you who don't know, Moka handles Global Communications for the Wikimedia Foundation.) They have worked on making sure that we convey the right messages as well as making the articles as inclusive of as many community members as possible - by covering the stories of as wide a range of editors as possible. The result of their work is the high-quality articles I've referenced above.</div><div><br></div><div><ol class="MailOutline"><li>We will continue to get requests from the press and I'd love to have them tell the tales of an even larger and more varied group of community members. It'll help to convey the diversity and magic of the community. Can I request you let Tinu and I know (offlist please) if you are willing to be interviewed by journalists in future? Every one of your stories will add emotion to an article - no matter how simple or otherwise your story is. <br><br></li><li>Also, a practical issue that we are facing is that we don't have enough print-quality images of community meet ups. Can you please add as many <u><b>high-resolution</b></u> images of as many community meet ups, outreach events, etc. as you can to Commons (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>) so that the press can access it more easily - and they can celebrate the human face of Wikipedia in newspapers and magazines?</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm Regards,</div><div></div><div>
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