The Wikipedia community's response to world incidents like this is fast, sometimes so fast that we have more comprehensive news aggregation than traditional news organizations. It would be good to have a blog entries discussing our coverage within, say, 12 hours of an incident. Perhaps this is something that interns could work on.

On Apr 30, 2015 12:14 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi guys,

We just published a quick update on the earthquake in Nepal on the Wikimedia blog — featuring the first photos on Commons and inviting folks to donate more:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/

Thanks to Victor and Andrew for helping prepare that story, despite limited resrouces. :)

We propose the following social media messages:

Twitter:

Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: more donations welcome on @WikimediaCommons (link)

Facebook/Google+:

Here are some of the photos of the earthquake in Nepal, recently posted on Wikimedia Commons. We invite you to support relief efforts, as well as contribute more images on Commons, so they can be re-used by others. (link)

Feel free to tweak as you see fit.

Thanks for sharing!

Fabrice

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