Does anyone think we should add something about the new UK chapter of
wikimedia in the boilerplate for this press release or is it best to
keep seperate?
Andrew (BozMo)
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From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Wikipedia for Schools (trademark and press)
To: Andrew Cates <Andrew(a)soschildren.org>
Cc: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>, Mike Godwin
<mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Elizabeth Rodgers
<Elizabeth.Rodgers(a)sos-uk.org.uk>uk>, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Andrew,
I will discuss here internally about bringing Michael in as the quote
or someone internally here with the Foundation.
In the meantime, I'd like you to use this boiler plate to describe the
Foundation instead of the older text you have:
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable
foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after
creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge
projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco,
California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and
servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use
Wikipedia and its sister projects.
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I might adjust that based on the final text you're proposing - we'll
see how it comes together.
Also - is there reason to believe you're using the Alexa trafffic
chart for schools-wikipedia.org?
Thanks
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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Andrew Cates wrote:
Jay,
Sorry for the delay in replying to this which was a mixture of
technical and life. I think we need to start moving on press releases
etc.
Here was last year's quote form Anthere: Florence Devouard, chair of
the Wikimedia Foundation, said: "The Wikimedia Foundation aims to
encourage the development and distribution of reference content to the
public free of charge: this project is an excellent example of free
resources being offered to a particular audience which we warmly
encourage, and are proud to support."
The 2008 Schools Wikipedia is now available for general viewing at
http://schools-wikipedia.org and will be available for download and on
DVD in two weeks time (so we can pick up final bugs). I appreciate we
won't use it but I attach Alexa's traffic graph of "online only"
schools wikipedia traffic versus "entire" citizendium traffic :). Our
draft press release, mainly based on last year (numbers to be
confirmed) coinciding with the availability by download was going to
be: