I suppose the followup to this is, "do we publicise the address more?"
If so how/where.
Realistically speaking I'm seeing less than one mail per week to the Wikinews OTRS address. I don't want it getting out of control, but if we can be a little more accessible for cases like this we'll get people going "let's try this 'edit' button". At least if I've got my poet's hat on when I'm inviting them to contribute. :-P
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Casey Brown Sent: 05 January 2008 17:48 To: bawolff+wn@gmail.com; Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article
Seconded.
On Jan 5, 2008 9:05 AM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Whomever the otrs person who wrote the below, I must say that that was a very well written invite.
Cheers -bawolff
On Jan 5, 2008 3:47 AM, Wikinews Information Team
wikinews@wikimedia.org wrote:
[[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
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
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
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