Yes, I know. This is the good moment (also here in Swiss and in Italy), but the newspapers always are finding news... when the news are not new, this the moment to kill the old news :)
Finally, I think that bad moments will follow. This is the moment to contact the journalists who write these articles and to offer the availability for new informations. This is the moment to construct references and links to manage the next steps.
Ilario
-- Messaggio originale -- To: foundation-l@wikimedia.org From: Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:39:01 +0200 Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: We made it !!!!!! Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org
valdelli@bluemail.ch wrote:
Yes, for the French people. :)
Ilario
No. Not really. Not only for french people. Each time we have a major media display in a country, the *whole* project directly or indirectly benefit from it.
I have been on Wikipedia for now 3 years and a half, and for all this time, I have been dreaming on us having an article in Le Monde. We had once a tiny little report in the cultural section. Very little impact. But here, we are featured on first page.
The impact of this is likely to be huge, because it means a sort of recognition. In particular we can expect
- more fear from all those we are currently in competition with, so
possibly more attacks 2) but mostly more interest from potential partners, be it firms, organisations, associations, academics etc...
The implications might be various. Possibly an impact on the publication
of a DVD (which might be interesting for more than just french people).
Possibly a partnership for publication of wikireaders (and similarly, why would we limit that to french language ?). Possibly a lever to negociate with organisations such as ESA, which would benefit all of us. And quite possibly as well, more donations, since we are currently in the middle of a fund drive (more money will benefit all of us).
We are together in this Ilario. Not just french, or just italian ;-)
ant
We are in first page of Le Monde, with several pages included inside. Le Monde is the *first* newspaper in France. This is an amazing day.
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