Wikipedia talk:Press releases/Logbook/February 25, 2004

I've done most of the UK media. I haven't done the Sunday papers. Associated Press' email address for press releases bounces - someone will have to fax them. I haven't touched the US media, or Australia, Canada, South Africa or New Zealand. I hope someone else can continue this evening. Thanks. Secretlondon 23:01, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

An anon user left me the following message: For the Associated Press, you might want to consider faxing it to AP Business News, New York, fax: 212-621-1587, for attention of Anick Jesdanun, their Internet reporter. See http://www.ap.org/pages/aptoday/ap_contacts2.html -- 217.158.106.73 22:42, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC). Secretlondon 23:05, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Should just anyone do this? Right after emailing the New York Times, I wondered if maybe it should come from soneone more official than a random admin. Anyway, I'm happy to keep at this, but I'm a little concerned that maybe Jimbo or someone has connections they plan to employ with USA Today, LA Times, etc. Anyhow, I've taken care of every major paper (and every daily university paper I know of) in Washington State, as well as the Oregonian, so my little corner of the world is taken. Hopefully someone can post here telling me if I should keep contacting papers. Jwrosenzweig 23:55, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

There's no obvious contact information for the BBC newsroom: does anyone have the right E-mail addresses? -- Anon.

newsonline@bbc.co.uk will get to their online news editorial team. --Imran 17:55, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I can't do this myself, but I see Metro www.metro.co.uk (UK/Scotland newspaper) and BBC News news.bbc.co.uk aren't on the log yet. fabiform | talk 01:24, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think it has to come from us. Clearly no-one else is going to do it otherwise. Sending it out doesn't make us the contacts. If some of the people who helped write the thing had helped send it out we would have the world covered by now. Secretlondon 07:46, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

It is currently going through the kuro5hin story submission queue [1]. Some comments from that include:

is verging on advertising[2]

The only *news* in the article is that it got to 500000, which it hasn't before. Well, one day it was at 400000. Was it news that it got to 400000? Will we be seeing more articles when it gets to 600000 or 700000? What about when it gets to 524288, which is a nice round power of two; will we see articles touting the "news" that Wikipedia reached 2^19 articles?[3]

On the positive side, it is currently 31 votes for posting versus 19 against. Jrincayc 16:28, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Organization

Unless someone argues against in the next half-an-hour, I'm organizing the links by country, if applicable. That way, we can identify areas of the world we've missed, easier. -- user:zanimum

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Taipei Times

Please send to the Taipei Times. -- Kaihsu 18:51, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)

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Canada

No one seems to have sent to anywhere in Canada. I'm not an an admin, but I'm willing to send to a couple of Canadian pubs. Should I be sending the full text, or just the URL of the press release? Fagan

As a fellow Canadian, I noticed that too. Go ahead, send the whole release (I have experience in the press, if you only sent them a link, they'd never look at it), with a subject line of "PR: Wikipedia publishes 500,000 articles in 50 languages". Make sure you list the papers/magazine immediately, I might start on Canada soon, too. Any particular area of Canada, or just the major dailies? -- user:zanimum

I'm taking an internet break, but sometime today I'll send it around if I can think of any pubs you haven't already done by then. Maybe we find some leads from my news page (see links at the bottom) http://www.faganfinder.com/news/ . I'm Ontarian, but that won't restrict where I submit to.

Okay, I've submitted to a couple of Canadian places.

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100 largest US papers

http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/News/US_Newspapers.htm lists the 100 largest US papers by circulation. If anyone/multiple people want to go to this list, send to some of these, that would be great. -- user:zanimum

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Why not just maintain a list and streamline the process?

I'm wondering if having individuals send the release to papers on their own and log it here makes the most sense. I would think it would be easier to keep a list of e-mail addresses of media somewhere, have people add their favourite or local paper, and whenever a new release comes out, have one person just send it to everyone. Thoughts? -- user:moink

Yes, eventually we will have this. Once this release has died down, I'll create an address book of all of this information. But for now, it's best to let Wikipedians take the matter into their own hands. And it saves time for everybody, if the work is shared. -- user:zanimum