Ziko van Dijk schreef: [knip]
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
A previous, failed, project; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quarto
If you wish to make a newsletter you need to know;
- for who? -- and if you know that; what type of stuff will you include and what not? - will it be an official Wikimedia Foundation newsletter or not? If it is an official newsletter I think you can reach faster more readers. But it can be seen as an public relations construction and you are editorial more limited.
Doing it; who will make it (long term)? On who can you count for help? Where/how , plain text/HTML or both?
If you have that all done you can make trial editions to see how things are working out. I would do that fairly discretely. It no fun announcing something new that never makes it to edition 3.
If possible and useful I am open to co-operation between this whatever it maybe will be of a newsletter and wikizine.
Greetings, Walter