Hi all,
Given the amount of recent press coverage we have had [1], we would like to develop some positive "template" messages promoting the Wikimedia projects and responding to common criticisms. We hope that these can be used to positively set the agenda for our media coverage rather than having to respond on the back foot.
At the moment we would like to compile a list of common "scenarios" where these could be used. I've started a section at [2] to collate these -
The examples I've put in already are:
1 Vandalism - "Wikipedia's useless because it's full of vandalism" 2 Reliability - "Wikipedia is not as reliable as other sources"
We'd like to end up with about 6-10 scenarios - please could you help us with this by adding your suggestions there or by replying to this message.
Many thanks!
[1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/June2009#Press_Coverage [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media_relations#Media_response
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:11, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
Given the amount of recent press coverage we have had [1], we would like to develop some positive "template" messages promoting the Wikimedia projects and responding to common criticisms. We hope that these can be used to positively set the agenda for our media coverage rather than having to respond on the back foot.
At the moment we would like to compile a list of common "scenarios" where these could be used. I've started a section at [2] to collate these -
You can get a lot of useful text for this from OTRS. Does anyone on the board/etc. have press queue access or would you like me to fetch some out? The standard info-en queue also has easily-tweakable messages for things like vandalism.
S
If you could fetch it out and put it up on the wiki that would be extremely helpful!
presume it's ok to make this stuff publicly available?
cheers
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From: "Sean Whitton" sean@silentflame.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: "WMUK" board@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 17:30:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:11, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
Given the amount of recent press coverage we have had [1], we would like to develop some positive "template" messages promoting the Wikimedia projects and responding to common criticisms. We hope that these can be used to positively set the agenda for our media coverage rather than having to respond on the back foot.
At the moment we would like to compile a list of common "scenarios" where these could be used. I've started a section at [2] to collate these -
You can get a lot of useful text for this from OTRS. Does anyone on the board/etc. have press queue access or would you like me to fetch some out? The standard info-en queue also has easily-tweakable messages for things like vandalism.
S
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:58, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
If you could fetch it out and put it up on the wiki that would be extremely helpful!
presume it's ok to make this stuff publicly available?
Well given that these are responses sent out to the public, I don't see why not - but I will check just to make absolutely sure.
S
A lot of them used to be on meta, but have I think moved since a Wiki was set up for OTRS people.
Sean Whitton wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:58, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
If you could fetch it out and put it up on the wiki that would be extremely helpful!
presume it's ok to make this stuff publicly available?
Well given that these are responses sent out to the public, I don't see why not - but I will check just to make absolutely sure.
S
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