Jimmy suggested that we should get the blogosphere more involved in the
Wikinews project. Indeed, many bloggers do the kind of work that
Wikinews requires: summarizing the news from a large number of sources.
True, bloggers are often less than neutral, but their entries may serve
as a useful basis for Wikinews articles, if we can convince them to put
them under an open license. There is also the question of how to raise
visibility of Wikinews within the world of blogs. RSS is essential here.
We do have one useful RSS feed, namely the one of Special:Newpages, but
few people are aware of it.
In order to communicate to bloggers what Wikinews is all about, and to
get them excited about the project, we are holding an open IRC chat on
February 5, 22:00 UTC, on #wikinews (irc.freenode.net). Please help in
setting the agenda and working on the list of invitations to bloggers. I
think it would be nice if we could personalize those.
The Meta page is on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chat
which will also be used to organize the agenda for future project-wide
chats. Please register yourself there if you intend to come.
All best,
Erik
Hi,
I am writing a story about the WikiNews project for the New York Times.
Both Erik Moeller and Jimmy Wales have provided me with very valuable
insight into the project. It would be great to hear from some other
contributors to WikiNews stories.
Below are a few short questions. If you've contributed to WikiNews and
would like to participate in my story, please send me a reply with your
answers to "wiki(a)bordella.com". I apologize for the somewhat impersonal
nature of a listserv posting.
1. Why do you contribute to WikiNews?
2. Does your interest in WikiNews lean more toward original reporting,
bringing diverse news sources together, or both, neither, etc.?
3. What has worked really well in the WikiNews process at this early
stage? What would you consider the top priorities for issues that still
need to be ironed out?
4. Have you contributed to WikiPedia or other WikiMedia projects in
addition to WikiNews?
5. Can you cite one or two WikiNews articles you've contributed to?
6. Can you provide your (real) name, what you do, and where you live?
Optional, but we're much more likely to cite you in the story with this
real life information.
Although space in the story for direct quotations is limited, feel free
to respond in as much or as little detail as you wish. This helps me
most accurately reflect your views to our readers.
thanks for your time,
Aaron Weiss
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