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hisham Begin forwarded message: > From: Hisham Mundol <hmun...@wikimedia.org> > Subject: Press Coverage: Request for Voices & Faces! > Date: September 12, 2011 3:38:04 PM GMT+05:30 > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com>, Moka Pantages > <mpanta...@wikimedia.org> > > Hi Folks > > In the last couple of days, we've had a couple of really insightful, > well-written articles on Wikipedia and you, the community. > http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226 > > http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp > > I want to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes work of Tinu and Moka. (Most of > you know Tinu - who's a community member based out of Bangalore. For those > of you who don't know, Moka handles Global Communications for the Wikimedia > Foundation.) They have worked on making sure that we convey the right > messages as well as making the articles as inclusive of as many community > members as possible - by covering the stories of as wide a range of editors > as possible. The result of their work is the high-quality articles I've > referenced above. > > We will continue to get requests from the press and I'd love to have them > tell the tales of an even larger and more varied group of community members. > It'll help to convey the diversity and magic of the community. Can I > request you let Tinu and I know (offlist please) if you are willing to be > interviewed by journalists in future? Every one of your stories will add > emotion to an article - no matter how simple or otherwise your story is. > > Also, a practical issue that we are facing is that we don't have enough > print-quality images of community meet ups. Can you please add as many > high-resolution images of as many community meet ups, outreach events, etc. > as you can to Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) so that > the press can access it more easily - and they can celebrate the human face > of Wikipedia in newspapers and magazines? > > Many thanks. > > Warm Regards, > > hisham > _______________________________________________ Wikita-l mailing list Wikita-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikita-l
