On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:49:37 -0700, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
elian writes:
I'm not entirely sure if it's a good idea to send a separate press release. We discussed this yesterday among the german wikipedians, feelings were mixed.
Well, it would be combined with other notices for the coming week. But this professional content test (and it would not be a bad idea to commission more of the same) is more newsworthy than the successful completion of our fundraiser.
On this one, I agree with Elian. I doubt that a press release of this nature would have much impact because we haven't done anything worth mentioning (completing the fundraiser precipitated by our last press release doesn't qualify), this is something somebody else did.
A fine point. Do you think a press release would be appropriate for promoting a similar study, if it were commissioned by Wikipedia?
And if the wikipedians on de: are skeptical about the value of a press release here, when the test relates specifically to them, I think that's a pretty good indication for the rest of us.
My initial interest in such a press release was sparked by interest from wikipedians on de: . Elian's post above was my first indication that this enthusiasm was not universal.
An alternative idea might be to play this up as part of a rollout for whatever new quality control system we develop - as in "Look how good we already are, now we're getting better".
Yes; I like Erik's idea of doing this once a sizeable number of articles (1000?) have passed through this system in at least one language. At the same time, we should commission a similar content comparison for en:...