[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?

Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette at wikimedia.org
Tue Jan 15 21:45:59 UTC 2013


This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it?  :-)

—————————
Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc



On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> There's GMT. That's not FAR off UTC. Maybe we can compromise there ;-)
> </joke>
> On Jan 15, 2013 9:16 PM, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org> wrote:
>>
>>> maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the
>>> timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international
>> climate
>>> in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and
>>> when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be
>>> confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments
>>> (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the
>>> countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue
>>> would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though.
>>
>>
>> There's a timezone other than UTC?
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikimedia-l mailing list
>> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimedia-l mailing list
> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l



More information about the Wikimedia-l mailing list