Wikipedia Weekly News
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Wikipedia Weekly News is an attempt to create a weekly newsletter for the Wikipedia project. It would serve as a summary of all the major happenings throughout the project, with pointers to more information. It would be readable on Meta-Wikipedia, as well as delivered via a mailing list. Ideally, it would be available in all active Wikipedia languages. The proposal sent to Wikipedia-l contains more details; read it here. There's an initial sample of what an issue might look like at WWN sample.
Things we need to work on:
- a template and style guide that works for both a wiki and a text-only email
- automated tools for sending and archiving the newsletters
- ...