[Foundation-l] leaflets

[Brianna Laugher]

On 02/03/2008, elisabeth bauer <eflebeth at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  General answer to anthere: it usually only makes sense to create a
>  final version of a leaflet if there's an occasion to print and
>  distribute it (conference etc) and that's how most of the leaflets
>  came into being - and that's also how they are updated (some group
>  wants to hold a conference next month and they realize the stats in
>  the leaflets are from 2005). So I don't see much sense in finishing
>  leaflets without a specific purpose of use. They'll just get outdated
>  again...

There are occasions to hand out leaflets besides holding your own
conference. I handed out some leaflets at a Linux conference open day
a few weeks ago. I handed out the wikisyntax cheatsheet, the Wikipedia
leaflet, "WP:WP" (a list of common shortcuts,
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia_list_of_shortcuts.pdf>)
and a page about Wikiversity that Cormaggio did
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:AltC_Wikiversity_poster.pdf>
- even though it still had his contact details on it. better than
nothing. I would have liked to have documents on Wikinews, Wikibooks,
Wikisource, Wiktionary, Commons, too...

Plus, I think finding the material to hand out is often a last minute
thing. If there is an existing document it can be quickly updated, but
it is too hard to write one from scratch at short notice.

cheers
Brianna

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