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 ..."

-- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation

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