Does anyone think we should add something about the new UK chapter of wikimedia in the boilerplate for this press release or is it best to keep seperate?

Andrew (BozMo)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:27 PM Subject: Re: Wikipedia for Schools (trademark and press) To: Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org Cc: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org, Elizabeth Rodgers Elizabeth.Rodgers@sos-uk.org.uk, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org

Hi Andrew,

I will discuss here internally about bringing Michael in as the quote or someone internally here with the Foundation.

In the meantime, I'd like you to use this boiler plate to describe the Foundation instead of the older text you have: ---

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco, California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use Wikipedia and its sister projects. ---

I might adjust that based on the final text you're proposing - we'll see how it comes together.

Also - is there reason to believe you're using the Alexa trafffic chart for schools-wikipedia.org?

Thanks

-- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Andrew Cates wrote:

Jay,

Sorry for the delay in replying to this which was a mixture of technical and life. I think we need to start moving on press releases etc.

Here was last year's quote form Anthere: Florence Devouard, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation, said: "The Wikimedia Foundation aims to encourage the development and distribution of reference content to the public free of charge: this project is an excellent example of free resources being offered to a particular audience which we warmly encourage, and are proud to support."

The 2008 Schools Wikipedia is now available for general viewing at http://schools-wikipedia.org and will be available for download and on DVD in two weeks time (so we can pick up final bugs). I appreciate we won't use it but I attach Alexa's traffic graph of "online only" schools wikipedia traffic versus "entire" citizendium traffic :). Our draft press release, mainly based on last year (numbers to be confirmed) coinciding with the availability by download was going to be: