Maybe not in 2008, but I sincerely believe that in future this will be significant local and international news.
If someone's willing to cover it, I'd say they're ahead of the future news story curve :)
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Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Its newsworthy if a citizen of a small community takes part (even only as a voter) in an international election. Its "human interest", and an opportunity to present one's hobby. Of course, I think more about the Springfield Shopper, not the L.A. Times. Ziko
2008/6/20 Harel Cain harel.cain@gmail.com:
The locally influential Israeli economic newspaper TheMaker (a kind of supplement to the better known Haaretz newspaper) is about to publish a big story on wikipedia, wikimedia, the local chapter and also the board elections in an upcoming article (mentioning my candidacy too). Though I'm not too sure how very newsworthy the board elections are for the "average Joe" on the street.
Harel
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
If someone lives in a small community, has contacts to the local media and wants to put Wikimedia into it, he or she can tell about the Wikimedia board elections. It is quite interesting to a local newspaper or radio station to report that XY from our community takes part in an international election, voting for someone (from another country) who might become a Board of Trustees member of the organisation of the famous Wikipedia. Alas, one should be quick as the elections end already tomorrow... Ziko
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