Re: [Wikinews-l] [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article

-- Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org --- Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and responses are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia Foundation. For official correspondence, you may contact the site operators at http://www.wikimediafoundation.org. ---- Forwarded message from "Christ, Andrew (AV)" VChrist@dow.com --- From: "Christ, Andrew (AV)" To: "Wikinews Information Team" wikinews@wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article Date: 2008-01-07 16:43:48 > Thank you for the invitation. I'm sure it's a great and delightful > opportunity. > > Have you considered www.addthis.com? It's a social bookmarking tool. > I'm sure a similar button for e-mail is more sophisticated, but I'm also > sure > Social bookmarking sites are increasingly popular and influential. > > Anyway, I'd love to get my feet wet helping out with Wikinews. I'm not > much > Of a newshound so I'll be happy to to do cosmetic stuff with grammar, > punctuation, etc. > > If you're looking for more volunteers to contribute articles, where are > you looking? > I would think there are a great many blog writers who would be glad to > help out. > > Also, and I hope I'm not saying too much here, but it seems to me > Wikinews > Has a great opportunity here to promote issues over events. The power of > Media is in framing the events. That's why I like Wikinews by the way - > it's > Effort to be neutral is a worthwhile one. > > All best, > Andrew Christ > > P.S. You can also reach me at an alias mailbox I created > wllmstafford AT gmail.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikinews Information Team [mailto:wikinews@wikimedia.org] > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:48 AM > To: Christ, Andrew (AV) > Cc: wikinews-l@wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article > > [[LIST MODERATOR:PLEASE EDIT OUT ANDREW'S EMAIL ADDRESS]] > > Dear Andrew, > > Thank you for your mail. > > Your email was passed around and there's some Wikinewsies working on how > can > we have the email an article feature - although it is likely to be an > ugly > javascript hack that activates the feature in your browser. Email this > page is > - as far as I know - a feature in every browser, but one of the last > things > you'd think of. People are now used to websites making this easy. We > should > too, so you were right to email us. > > I've copied this response on to the wikinews mailing list where the > aforementioned people who might can do this are. Fingers crossed we can > get > something to make life simple. > > In any case, it's great to see someone taking the Wikinews coverage as > something they'd like to mail on. We strive to be neutral in our > coverage and > do well balanced reports. We don't have enough people on the project to > cover > every issue and sometimes our front page can look odd because of people > covering what interests them. I'd like to take this opportunity to > invite you > to get involved. It can be as much or as little as you want. Correct > grammatical errors, change passive voice to active, or be really bold > and > start your own articles. Wikinews tries to be a welcoming international > community and we have editors all over the world. For obvious reasons > the > English project is among the most active, but French, German, and > Chinese > projects also manage a respectable article count. What makes me smile is > when > we have coverage in multiple languages; we certainly aren't as organised > as > Wikipedia is with that, but we try. > > Again, thank you for contacting us, we really should publicise this > email > address more. > > "Christ, Andrew (AV)" xxx@xxx wrote: > > > Brian, > > > > I wanted to send the article about the burial of the woman leader in > > Pakistan who was assassinated. > > > > After I sent that e-mail, I can understand why Wikinews wouldn't want > an > > 'e-mail article' button. It's one of the ways I keep in touch with a > > friend. Some people will want to know whether Wikinews uses the info > > about which articles get sent in their decisions as to which articles > to > > write. Wikinews wouldn't be able to prove that the info isn't used in > > making such decisions. I had forgotten about my browser's 'e-mail > page' > > feature. > > > > Andy > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wikinews Information Team [mailto:wikinews@wikimedia.org] > > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:25 AM > > To: Christ, Andrew (AV) > > Subject: Re: [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article > > > > Dear Christ Andrew, > > > > Thank you for your mail. > > > > "Christ, Andrew (AV)" xxx@xxx wrote: > > > > > Please consider adding a button to your news articles. By clicking > the > > > button, a reader may type in an e-mail address of a friend and send > > the > > > news article to them. Thank you. > > > > Andrew, looks like you'll get your wish. One of our Serbian > contributors > > who > > is more technical than me is working on some code so we can have a > "mail > > this > > page" link in the left-hand sidebar. > > > > Out of curiosity, can you say which specific article you figured you > had > > to > > mail on? Just want to know some more about what makes our readers want > > to do > > more than just read. > > > > > > Yours sincerely, > > Brian McNeil > > > > -- > > Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org > > --- > > Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and > > responses > > are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia > > Foundation. > > For official correspondence, you may contact the site operators at > > http://www.wikimediafoundation.org. > > > > > > > > Yours sincerely, > Brian McNeil > > -- > Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org > --- > Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and > responses > are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia > Foundation. > For official correspondence, you may contact the site operators at > http://www.wikimediafoundation.org. > > ---- End forwarded message ---