On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:25:17AM -0700, Anthere wrote:
I do not see well how it adresses the general issue Tom. Perhaps I did not understand what you meant ?
As for mailing lists, I moderated the french one for a year, and I had to delete between 10 to 20 spam per day at some point.
Organisation of a press release is totally appropriate on the wiki iself. I contributed a lot to the french ones and collaborative work was quite successful. The second press release was sent to many places, with few double sending.
However, when I send the press release to some major newspapers, I also received sometimes no answer, and once an answer which said "could you get me in contact with an official please". The only official I know right now is Jimbo. I do not think it is Jimbo's job to stamp a press release made by the french wikipedia. He has other things to do.
How can a mailing list adress can help in showing this journalist (or whoever), that I can be trusted and sending a press release that is in line with the community opinion of what Wikipedia is ?
Ah I think you misunderstood. Our mailinglist is for those asking US, not the other round. For sending out our press releases we have a fluctuating group of people who just mail them. We maintain a list of recipient[1] That also works quite good.
[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pressemitteilung/Empf%E4nger