Dear Swiss Wikipedians, after a few weeks of 'lurking', I thought now was a good time to introduce myself on this mailing-list. I am mostly active on the English Wikipedia, except for the occasional wikilink on fr or de, but despite my last name, I am a French speaker, leaving in Suisse Romande, and my German is somewhat patchy. I am therefore very grateful for the recent discussion that saw English chosen as the lingua franca in this list.
Although there are several comments I wanted to make during the last discussions, I have finally decided to post here following an interesting article in "Le Temps" today (today being already Mon 30th Jan). The text, in French, can be found at http://www.letemps.ch/template/editoriaux.asp?page=1&article=173039 and http://www.letemps.ch/template/tempsFort.asp?page=3&article=173055 (they will remain available only for today or a few days). The article is not perfect (a few mistakes, as far as I know), but the general tone is largely positive. Which brings me to a question... Do you still need help for contacts with the French-Speaking newspapers/medias in Switzerland ? Just like everyone, I don't have much free time (Wikipedia editing already eats much of it...), but would be happy to help if needed -- with the caveats that I am pretty bad when "speaking in direct" (eg no radio for me...), and I don't know the French wikipedia as well as the English one (but the article on Le Temps, for example, was mostly about the well-publicised reports on en.w.o). All the best, Frederic _______________________________________________ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l