{"id":803,"date":"2012-06-21T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:32:38","slug":"cipr-tv-webcast-on-pr-people-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2012\/06\/21\/cipr-tv-webcast-on-pr-people-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"CIPR TV webcast on PR people and Wikipedia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipr.co.uk\/ciprtv\/108058\/the-wikipedia-debate-will-two-communities-collaborate-or-collide-\">Recorded yesterday<\/a>. Put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipsheldrake.com\/\">Philip Sheldrake<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipr.co.uk\/\">Chartered Institute for Public Relations<\/a>, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrowdandi.com\/\">Gemma Griffiths<\/a> who has previously done PR for Wikimedia UK.<\/p>\n<p>I took the approach of assuming good faith and trying to be as helpful as possible in getting the encyclopedia improved and PR people not shooting their foot off. I don&#8217;t <i>think<\/i> there will be hordes of Wikipedians at the door with pitchforks and torches. I hereby invite nitpicking from Wikipedians, PRs and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Draft_best_practice_guidelines_for_PR\">draft guidance<\/a> for PR people, as facilitated by Wikimedia UK, is still live for editing. Please dive in. (I think it should be about half the length, but Wikipedians are <a href=\"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Instruction_creep\">wordy, picky and didactic<\/a>.) The idea is to help inform the people of good faith, as the people of bad faith don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>The suit suitably frightened my coworkers. Cheers to Stevie Benton for the Wikipedia lapel badge. I really look my age, though &mdash; I kept seeing mannerisms I&#8217;ve picked up from my father &mdash; and I promise the ponytail is <i>going<\/i>, however much <a href=\"http:\/\/arkady.org.uk\">the loved one<\/a> might protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recorded yesterday. Put together by Philip Sheldrake and the Chartered Institute for Public Relations, hosted by Gemma Griffiths who has previously done PR for Wikimedia UK. I took the approach of assuming good faith and trying to be as helpful as possible in getting the encyclopedia improved and PR people not shooting their foot off. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2012\/06\/21\/cipr-tv-webcast-on-pr-people-and-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CIPR TV webcast on PR people and Wikipedia.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-cX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}