Thanks, Jai and Pine, Yes, Wikipedia can be a great resource for covering news events, and many blog readers have asked for more news coverage (we’re publishing the survey report in a few hours, so you can read more about this shortly).
As you suggest, we plan to invite more interns to join our team, so we can experiment more with this format in coming weeks. The idea would be to identify a big news event like this one, quickly find editors who are covering that event, invite them to coordinate their efforts with our team, and allocate enough time to edit it all together. Stay tuned for more along those lines, Fabrice > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cool. > > The Wikipedia community's response to world incidents like this is fast, > sometimes so fast that we have more comprehensive news aggregation than > traditional news organizations. It would be good to have a blog entries > discussing our coverage within, say, 12 hours of an incident. Perhaps this is > something that interns could work on. > > Thanks! > > Pine > > > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote: > > Related to this, there are also freely licensed images on Mapillary, e.g. > http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/bbox/26.993066122981222/29.176145182559758/81.86737060546875/87.14080810546875 > > Right now it requires a lot of manual work to transfer these to Commons (we > are working on it) but it is possible. > > Best regards, > Jan Ainali > > Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige > 0729 - 67 29 48 > > > Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens > samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör. > Bli medlem. > On Apr 30, 2015 12:14 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi guys, > > We just published a quick update on the earthquake in Nepal on the Wikimedia > blog — featuring the first photos on Commons and inviting folks to donate > more: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/ > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/> > > > Thanks to Victor and Andrew for helping prepare that story, despite limited > resrouces. :) > > We propose the following social media messages: > > > Twitter: > > Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: more donations welcome on > @WikimediaCommons (link) > > > Facebook/Google+: > > Here are some of the photos of the earthquake in Nepal, recently posted on > Wikimedia Commons. We invite you to support relief efforts, as well as > contribute more images on Commons, so they can be re-used by others. (link) > > > Feel free to tweak as you see fit. > > > Thanks for sharing! > > > > Fabrice > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Movement Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
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