Hello all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The main points:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>I reminded him of the existing guidelines that Wikipedians, Wikimedia UK and the CIPR worked on and recommended the guidelines to his readers</li><li>I explained that COI doesn&#39;t just apply to PR professionals, but to everyone. We aren&#39;t making PR a special case in that respect</li>
<li>Wikipedia is a collaborative, voluntary project - nobody owns the content</li><li>I also made the point that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a PR platform.</li></ul><div>I was asked if I had any specific response to the PRCA comments, but really there&#39;s nothing helpful to add there, except that talk pages and emails needn&#39;t be cumbersome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone has any specific concerns and would like to discuss them, I&#39;m more than happy to discuss this, on or off list.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Stevie</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2012 09:00, Gordon Joly <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gordon.joly@pobox.com" target="_blank">gordon.joly@pobox.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 14/11/12 05:51, Doug Weller wrote:<br>
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The OTRS Quality queue is again over 200, which is pretty worrying. Partially my fault as I haven&#39;t been doing much if any OTRS work recently.<br>
Doug<br>
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This is volunteer effort, so, from time to time volunteering effort can slide (I speak from my own personal experience).<br>
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On the other hand, &quot;PR Industry&quot;.....<br>
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Gordo<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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