Hello all,
I thought you might like to know that I spoke with the journalist from PR Week yesterday about the story they published on this issue. They are keen to include it in their print edition, which goes out tomorrow.
The main points:
- I reminded him of the existing guidelines that Wikipedians, Wikimedia UK and the CIPR worked on and recommended the guidelines to his readers - I explained that COI doesn't just apply to PR professionals, but to everyone. We aren't making PR a special case in that respect - Wikipedia is a collaborative, voluntary project - nobody owns the content - I also made the point that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a PR platform.
I was asked if I had any specific response to the PRCA comments, but really there's nothing helpful to add there, except that talk pages and emails needn't be cumbersome.
If anyone has any specific concerns and would like to discuss them, I'm more than happy to discuss this, on or off list.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
On 14 November 2012 09:00, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 14/11/12 05:51, Doug Weller wrote:
The OTRS Quality queue is again over 200, which is pretty worrying. Partially my fault as I haven't been doing much if any OTRS work recently. Doug
This is volunteer effort, so, from time to time volunteering effort can
slide (I speak from my own personal experience).
On the other hand, "PR Industry".....
Gordo
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