[Foundation-l] Wikizine - Special edition

Wed Sep 19 17:55:36 UTC 2007

Walter,

I for one have really appreciated all of your hard work on this;
wikizine has been invaluable.

What do you think of running a month-long workshop to train a group of 
people in the details of making a publication such as wikizine happen?

There are many good and interested writers and community-journalists 
across the projects, and I think many of them, even wikizine readers, 
simply don't realize that there is need to contribute to wikizine
itself, or don't know in enough detail how it is put together to
imagine themselves doing one of the related chores.

SJ

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Walter Vermeir wrote:

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> Year: 2007  Week: 38 Special edition
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> An independent internal news bulletin
> for the members of the Wikimedia community
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> === Request for help ===
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> Dear readers,
>
> Almost two years ago I started with Wikizine. The very first message
> send out about it was also a "special edition". That was to present
> Wikizine, what it was all about.
>
> http://en.wikizine.org/2005/10/year-2005-week41-special-edition.html
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> This one now is not to explain what Wikizine is.
>
> Wikizine is not totally unsuccessful. The number of readers has only
> go up since its existence, slowly yes, but up nevertheless. The rare
> feedback has been positive.
>
> It was my intention to create a platform with Wikizine to bring
> together the most relevant information, news, from all Wikimedia
> projects and languages. I felt, and still do, that there is a need for
> that.
>
> I hoped that after some time a network of reporters of the various
> wikis, languages, projects, would form who could bring there news to
> the larger community by means of Wikizine. And also that the would
> people step up to join me in creating Wikizine.
>
> This largely did not happened. In the last two years some people have
> volunteered and helped with making Wikizine. But that where far to
> few, who did  not a lot and only for a to short time to have any real
> impact.
>
> Wikizine was and is still a one man show.  I have made all editions
> until now of Wikizine. I can not continue like this. It has become
> more difficult with every edition for me to bring myself to get the
> next one ready. The time it was fun is long gone. The frequency of the
> editions has become more and more erratic. And the quality is falling.
>
> I need people who are willing to work substantially on Wikizine. And
> not only today but on the long term. Finding news, writing it in the
> draft; constructing Wikizine. If you like to help please contact me;
> walter AT wikizine.org
>
> Request for help for Wikizine has been send out before, only not so
> explicit like now. This is also the first time I send it to
> non-Wikizine channels.
>
> The responds the previous times was always nearly zero. I do not
> expect anything else this time. Surprise me.
>
> Greetings,
> Walter Vermeir
>
> The editor-founder of Wikizine
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