Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent out, then?
Mike
On 30 Nov 2009, at 16:06, Brian McNeil wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 15:41 +0000, George D. Watson wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/11/30 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org:
The thought's good, but right now enWN is currently only pushing out about 5 articles a day.
Recruitment campaign might be better.
I was thinking of a statement that included a suggestion that people contribute to it. Getting contributors and getting readers are very closely related problems - contributors usually start out as readers (at least, they do on Wikipedia).
Yes, we need publicity, and this is a good chance to get it. If we release something, it should highlight the free license and the wiki format, as well as pushing the free to access thing. More activity will be great, whether that activity results in a greater number of editors, or in readers. If a reader recommends it to their friends, their friends may become editors, even if the original reader doesn't. We should probably mention the link to Wikipedia, which more people will be familiar with, but stress that they are separate projects and focus on Wikinews alone.
Anything that can encourage more contributors and readers is good. Really a need to move beyond "Wikinews: Popular in Cuba" (according to Alexa).
There are Twitter, Facebook, Identi.ca, and RSS feeds of published content available. [1]
[1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Social_networking
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