That is an excellent idea! Like a Wikizine, only written for non-wikimedians?
Cary
Yes, indeed. Our other information channels are extremely limited to Wikimedians, we ourselves often don't remark that. Think about your uncle, your teacher, your elderly neighbour. A newsletter for non-Wikimedians should be reread by at least two other Wikimedians than the author, maybe even checked for difficultuies by non-Wikimedians.
Several ways are possible: * Everytime there is something to report, WMF sends a newsletter. * Every week, WMF sends a newsletter with a couple of collected, relevant news * Every fortnight or month, WMF sends a newsletter that is more similar to a magazine or paper, with sections and stuff you would suppose to find in a journal for the members of an association.
This thing should get a name that is more inviting for non-Wikimedians (or "normal people"), like "Wikimedia News", "Informations for friends of Wikipedia", not a cryptic "Wikizine" (WIKIpedia MagaZINE).
As Jerry says, be conscious about your readership.
Ziko
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Hello,
In order to surf on the new wave of contributions to this list, here a suggestion:
WMF certainly has a lot of e-mail addresses of people who are not really Wikimedians, but who are interested in what we do: professionals, hard core readers, teachers, politicians, potential donators and so on. Why not create a newsletter they can get per e-mail, maybe once a week. With news that is relevant to them and written in a way they understand (no techno babble, no Wiki jargon).
We do have this blog, you can have RSS yes, but many of these people don't know what a blog or RSS is. Simply a mail service they can subscribe on, and no bothering or searching later.
Kind regards
Ziko
2009/1/28 Cary Bass <cary@wikimedia.org mailto:cary@wikimedia.org>
Hi, welcome, Jerry!
I am glad you're here. Comproj is in a bit of a slow point right now while we reassess what we're here for, but you can help us in that reassessment!
Cary
Jerry~Yuyu wrote:
Halo all
I wonder if most of know me already.
This is User:Yuyu on Wikimedia projects, I start hanging around in Chinese Wikipedia since 2004, and became a sysop there. And I've been helping out in meta since Wikimania 2007, mostly on
translation
and did give some comments in ComCom mailing list
As a student of Journalism in Hong Kong who spent his childhood in Mainland China, I think I can help with the Press and PR stuff
here.
As a deputy-president of the local chapter in HK, I've already handled dozens of media inquires and interviewed by several '].
I hope I can help here as much as possible.
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan Jerry~èè User:Yuyu http://jeromyu.info MSN: jeromyuchan@msn.com mailto:jeromyuchan@msn.com
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