Wikipedia talk:Building Wikipedia membership

message: I (snoyes) moved the following comment from Building Wikipedia membership here, because it added nothing of importance to the article:
:"I just showed up today because the latest issue of Netsurfers Digest had a mention of it. -- corvus13"
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Hi, I've mentioned this before and thought I'd mention it again. As I'm browsing the pedia I find articles that might interest friends/coworkers. I pop them a link in a quick hello message and ask them if they confirm the accuracy of the content...the response so far has been first one of wonder, then awe, then enthusiasm! And it's been a nice way to relate to some folks I'm not often in contact with. Anyway, I searched for evangelism and came up with nada around the 'pedia. Is there a place for sharing an evangelical/ 'help us' message of wikipedia? --dgd
:There's some stuff at Wikipedia:Building Wikipedia membership. (Hint which wouldn't help here but may in general: after searching, go to the "Power search" box at the bottom of the screen and check the box for the 'Wikipedia' namespace. You'll get various about, help, documentation, etc pages that aren't supposed to show up when you're searching for encyclopedia articles.) Also check the Meta-wikipedia where we keep general project discussion and misc stuff. --Brion 20:42 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC)
::How about doing what a lot of news web pages do?  They have a box at the bottom, "Send this article to a friend" with some kind of java mailer to ship it off and a box for you to add a signed message. Ortolan88
:::I like that idea too. Especially, and I know this would require more overhead, but a way to keep my list of folks in memory so I don't have to open my email client (which may not be available esp, as I'm a student and working on diff. machines).
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Has anyone considered encoraging educators to organize Wikipedia contributions as part of classroom projects?
I can see several benefits:
* Reports would at least provide stub articles, rather than simply being discarded or filed.
* Photography/Journalism students could contribute pictures.
* Educators and librarians may start to consider it an excellent starting point for research.
* Wikipedia awareness would increase significantly, and kids who found value in it would become lifelong users (and possibly contributors).
Brianiac 17:57, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

message: The proposed merger from Wikipedia:Publicity has been completed. -- Beland 00:36, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge implemented 

message: Hi guys,
Why's there a notice on the main article page that says the following?:
I think we should get this article moving because (in my opinion) wikipedia is one of the best, if not the best, encyclopedia.  Especially since you can voice your input and make changes etc...
--EChronicle 17:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What;'s up with the notice? 

message: I'm a bit peeved about the suggestion to cite Wikipedia as a source (Wikipedia:Building_Wikipedia_membership#From_Wikipedia:Publicity), especially because Wikipedia:Academic use explicitly discourages students from citing any type of encyclopedia (Wikipedia included) as a source for a research paper. Many colleges are now banning Wikipedia as a source, and an unfortunate student could click the link to this page in the upper-right corner, and see the suggestion to cite Wikipedia. This would not be a good thing. I any of us would want to put a student in that position for the sole purpose of advertising. --Hojimachongtalk 05:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citing as a source -concerns?