Dear all,

Over the past one month, we've been working with community members from Assamese, Kannada Malayalam and Nepali communities to get maximum possible media coverage and press support in order to highlight their community and events and hopefully get new editors for our movement.

In all cases, I help prepare the press release (as, kn, ml, ne),  then community members translate it and then we work together to try and reach out to the widest possible audience.
Here are a few links to the press releases and newspaper articles. There are a few in local language papers that are not online. Also, all these reports are due to the collaborative effort and very important follow up by community members like Jyoti, Bishnu, Gitartha, Omshivaprakash, Anoop, Ramesh, Kannan, Sujith, Saroj and Ganesh for the communities respectively.

Assamese:
 http://www.northeasttoday.in/our-states/assam/assamese-wikipedia-celebrates-10th-anniversary
 http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=765639
 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3527515.ece
 http://www.sify.com/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-years-of-existence-news-national-mgomkejcfde.html
 http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-years-of-existence/1011585.html
 http://issuu.com/assamese/docs/ghy_13062012?mode=window&backgroundColor#22222
 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120611/jsp/northeast/story_15594299.jsp
 http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=17895
 http://amarasom.glpublications.in/Details.aspx?id=9509&boxid=103211609

 Kannada:
 http://epaper.udayavani.com/Display.aspx?Pg=H&Edn=MN&DispDate=6/18/2012
 http://allevents.in/Bangalore/483961428297721
 
Malayalam:
 http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=82424
 http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/other-cities/4717-kollam-to-host-malayalam-wikisangamotsavam-on-april-28-29
 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3351423.ece?css=print
 http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-14/social-media/31341866_1_malayalam-wikipedia-kollam-knowledge
 http://www.techgoss.com/Story/557S12-Wiki-Malayalam-Meet-held-at-Kerala.aspx
 http://article.wn.com/view/2012/04/28/Malayalam_wiki_most_innovative/
 http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/hitech/malayalam-wiki-most-innovative-793
 http://ibnlive.in.com/news/malayalam-wikipedia-could-be-emulated/253196-60-116.html
 http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article390787.ece


Nepali:
 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/Nagarik_Article.png
 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/karobar_article.png
 Radio Sagarmatha broadcasted an interview with a Wikipedian Ganesh Paudel...
 Radio Nepal Bani Broadcasted an interview with Wikipedians located in Kathmandu (Mr. Ganesh Paudel and Mr. Saroj Dhakal)


Just thought I'd share a few pointers based on what went right and what could have been better on my part. This may help you in the future if you too are looking to get media attention for your community and events.

A few lessons:

Planning:
Event:

Other tips:

I might have missed out on a few lessons and invite community members and the chapter communication team to contribute with more inputs. Maybe we can even document this on Meta for future reference.

Thank you,
Best


--
Noopur Raval