Talk:2019/Grants/News on Wiki, Phase Two

Additional Information Requested

Hi Pete and Sherry, thanks for the submission. Could you sketch out your 6-month timeline a little more in detail, to include things like when/how your online materials will be available, when existing/new articles improvement begins?

Thanks much! -Connie, 7 April 2020

Hi Connie, sure. WikiProject pages and learning resources (recipes for creating and improving Wikipedia and Wikidata pages) would be online prior to the launch of the campaign June 15. Publicity and recruitment efforts will also be highly concentrated prior to June 15, so we can hit the ground running. Article composition and improvement will begin in earnest June 15 and continue throughout the 6-month campaign. We will conduct instructional webinars throughout the campaign, twice a month or maybe once a week; we will also maintain an email list, so all campaign participants can stay up-to-date and share a sense of purpose. We have not made a final determination on whether we want to use a tool like Slack to coordinate the campaign; Slack was helpful in Phase One, but it also tends to distract from collaboration on WikiProject pages, which is crucial for sustainability. That is about as much detail as Sherry and I have agreed to; we can answer in more depth if you like, but it will require us talking things through a bit first. Would you like more detail than this, and if so, by what date? -Pete Forsyth (talk) 19:30, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

P. S. Unless you require something sooner, we plan to have a work session Friday, and will likely have a more detailed campaign plan (and perhaps a publicity plan) to add to the application shortly after that. If you have a preference whether we publish it here on the talk page, or update the proposal itself, let us know. Stay healthy, Connie -- and thanks for reading, and for your feedback! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:12, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Peteforsyth, helpful. I don't need more detail at the point. Stay well! --Connie (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying Connie FWIW, in our Friday call Sherry and I decided to change the name of the campaign from "Newspapers on Wikipedia" to simply "News on Wiki". This accomplishes two things...first, it's less of a mouthful, and second, it permits broader scope. We're already working on Wikidata and even Wikisource, so it's good to expand beyond Wikipedia; and at a future point, we might want to run this campaign on TV or radio news, magazines, etc. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 18:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)