Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schoolchildren told to avoid Wikipedia - Telegraph
Charles Matthews wrote: Thomas Dalton wrote: We should issue a statement supporting the Ofqual report and correcting the Telegraph article: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Ofqual_report See the Wikipedia guide for teachers thread from 6 December for some online refs I gave for article evaluation. Rebutting what the Telegraph said is probably a cul-de-sac: the Telegraph isn't going to print it, and other papers have no reason to write about the Telegraph rather than some expert source. So I'd suggest developing a press release along the lines of amplifying the good points in what Ofqual said, taking it as an endorsement of always read the label type. Needs work, though. What is the story we are putting across? Roughly, there is the riff that school students will use the Web, like it or not; and so knowing how to use WP properly is a research skill of our time, just as is using a search engine. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org I always describe Wikipedia as an advanced Google. While Google gathers together sources that match your search term, Wikipedia weeds out the facts you are most likely to want, summarises them, and gives you a link to the source. It generally helps people to get the gist. -- George D. Watson ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Paying for news
Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/11/30 Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org: On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:01 +, Thomas Dalton wrote: There is a lot in the news at the moment about newspapers, etc. charging people for accessing news on their websites. I wonder if Wikimedia UK should issue a press release recommending Wikinews as an alternative. The project could do with some publicity and this might be a good time to get it some since the subject of news websites is being discussed. It probably won't be in the news for long, though, so we would have to move quickly (the release probably needs to go out in the next 24 hours at the longest). The thought's good, but right now enWN is currently only pushing out about 5 articles a day. Recruitment campaign might be better. I was thinking of a statement that included a suggestion that people contribute to it. Getting contributors and getting readers are very closely related problems - contributors usually start out as readers (at least, they do on Wikipedia). ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org Yes, we need publicity, and this is a good chance to get it. If we release something, it should highlight the free license and the wiki format, as well as pushing the free to access thing. More activity will be great, whether that activity results in a greater number of editors, or in readers. If a reader recommends it to their friends, their friends may become editors, even if the original reader doesn't. We should probably mention the link to Wikipedia, which more people will be familiar with, but stress that they are separate projects and focus on Wikinews alone. -- George D. Watson ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Flagged revs on BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans today ~6:30pm UTC
I'm listening now on iPlayer. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gwj03/Chris_Evans_27_01_2009/ (For fellow Beatles fans, they also play a bit of Magical Mystery Tour) Isabell Long wrote: I'll have a listen later if I can. I don't agree with it really, but I suppose if it controls vandalism levels and people (normally contributing users with accounts) are able to approve them, the backlog shouldn't be too bad considering how many good natured volunteers en.wikipedia really has. I would most certainly help! Isabell. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
