On 3 August 2012 19:38, Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > Just how do Wikimedia UK reach the public? They may be Radio 4 listeners, > Scottish Herald readers, Morning Star readers, Sun readers, people who may > only be looking at ITV News?
In the past 7 years of doing press I have *never* been able to get the internal structure of the Wikimedia movement across to the press. Not ever. They really just don't care. The projects, the languages, the chapters - it's all "Wikipedia" to them. I stopped arguing long ago and only stress the point when it's particularly relevant. In general, by the way, I highly recommend ignoring the press except as and when it suits our purposes. Although, as a top 10 site we are relevant news material, and as a group of charities supported by public donation we owe it to the public to say who we are and what we're about, nevertheless the whims of the press and of the news cycle are not necessarily anything we should actually concern ourselves over as we fulfill our various missions. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
