On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:01 +0000, Thomas Dalton
wrote:
There is a lot in the news at the moment about
newspapers, etc.
charging people for accessing news on their websites. I wonder if
Wikimedia UK should issue a press release recommending Wikinews as an
alternative. The project could do with some publicity and this might
be a good time to get it some since the subject of news websites is
being discussed. It probably won't be in the news for long, though, so
we would have to move quickly (the release probably needs to go out in
the next 24 hours at the longest).
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).