[Foundation-l] WM Elections and local public relations

[Jay Walsh]

Maybe not in 2008, but I sincerely believe that in future this will be significant 
local and international news.

If someone's willing to cover it, I'd say they're ahead of the future news story 
curve :)

Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Its newsworthy if a citizen of a small community takes part (even only
> as a voter) in an international election. Its "human interest", and an
> opportunity to present one's hobby. Of course, I think more about the
> Springfield Shopper, not the L.A. Times.
> Ziko
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> 2008/6/20 Harel Cain <harel.cain at gmail.com>:
>> The locally influential Israeli economic newspaper TheMaker (a kind of
>> supplement to the better known Haaretz newspaper) is about to publish
>> a big story on wikipedia, wikimedia, the local chapter and also the
>> board elections in an upcoming article (mentioning my candidacy too).
>> Though I'm not too sure how very newsworthy the board elections are
>> for the "average Joe" on the street.
>>
>> Harel
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> If someone lives in a small community, has contacts to the local media
>>> and wants to put Wikimedia into it, he or she can tell about the
>>> Wikimedia board elections. It is quite interesting to a local
>>> newspaper or radio station to report that XY from our community takes
>>> part in an international election, voting for someone (from another
>>> country) who might become a Board of Trustees member of the
>>> organisation of the famous Wikipedia.
>>> Alas, one should be quick as the elections end already tomorrow...
>>> Ziko
>>>
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