Sounds good. Thanks Fabrice. Pine On May 5, 2015 7:05 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <http://wikimedia.se/> > 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. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se/> > > On Apr 30, 2015 12:14 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <[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/ >> >> >> 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) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > 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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