2008/9/9 Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com:
On Tue, September 9, 2008 16:07, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Liaising with the press is certainly something WM UK could do.
Actually, it is something that we *already* do, and have done successfully for a long time. sfaiaa both David and I get daily calls and emails from the press and respond in a timely manner to them and continue to do so.
Both our numbers are in way too many media directories and are likely to stay there. (Both as "WMUK" and "UK volunteer contact for WMF"; journalists don't care about the distinction, just as long as the person on the other end is helpful and quotable.)
I've already said to Thomas I'm quite happy to continue to have my number (07733 223 584! There it is!) bandied about the whole Internet (you'd be surprised how few crank calls I get ... the last one was when someone Rickrolled me by phone several weeks ago) - though I'm currently in a Volunteerism Addiction Denial Phase so unlikely to put my head on the block for the new board as such ;-) So WMUK2 should have a chair willing to answer silly calls (always a good idea) and say the same standard phrases over and over.
- d.