Hi Ed,

Copyediting question: "needs to be bolstered community-generated journalism like the Signpost" sounds off.

Other than that, nice idea! It would be good to see a regular feature, maybe monthly, about Wikipedia in a mainstream news source.

Pine

On Oct 26, 2015 9:45 PM, "Ed Erhart" <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,

We just published "Community view: why the news media needs Wikipedians in residence" to the blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/26/news-media-needs-wikipedians/

Thanks to Rob for the post!

Facebook:
"To the English-language news media, Wikipedia is a foreign country."
"News coverage is inadequate for a website and movement as large and influential as Wikipedia and Wikimedia."

Twitter:
"To the English-language news media, Wikipedia is a foreign country."
"This all struck me while I made a spontaneous visit to the @Newseum ..."

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Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation

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