Well.. What do you want money for? You must have some idea what you're
fundraising for.
What about - promotion of wikibooks in community languages - supplementary
education textbooks. Paper encylopedias written by a college educated
diaspora and distributed widely in south east asia/west africa/wherever.
Science books to Kashmir - written in Bradford...
Language projects in Cornish, Manx, Gaelic, Lowland Scots and Welsh. The
Scottish parliament is bound to have a pot of money for Gaelic language
work. What do the Gaelic wikipedia community want?
Do we want to do development work on a BSL wikipedia?
I think there is loads of potential with wikibooks. National curriculum
topics, community language instruction, sports/health/fitness instruction.
The British girl guiding wiki or the Manchester United wiki are
possibilities.
Sensibly:
1. What is the foundation for?
2. What do we want to achieve?
3. How do we do it?
4. What needs cash?
I presume we don't want to stop people donating directly to the foundation -
or do we? Is ours ring fenced for UK work? (This will depend upon the
mems&arts).
Caroline
-----Original Message-----
From: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
Sent: 06 March 2006 18:00
To: wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Media and press launch pages (on WMUK wiki)
-compelling marketing story needed
The WMUK wiki is presently a small closed internal directors' wiki, but
mailing to the list here (a) reaches you all satisfactorily (b) will get
ideas from the world, which I could do with right now.
[[Media]] - this page has been started for all interviews/articles about
WMF-related stuff in the UK, whether it's WMUK people or whatever. Nach0king
has been doing a *pile* of press for the 1 millionth article. (He avoids
wikipolitics like the plague, but would be happy to do local Scottish stuff
come press launch time.)
[[Press launch]] - here's where I need your help. This event is *all about
marketing*. We want to look like a charity people in the UK will want to
chuck money at.
We need a *compelling marketing story*. We don't have one yet. "What's the
money for?" "Er ... stuff ..." We don't control the wiki, we don't
run
servers - what do we use people's money for?
- d.
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