Thanks Erik
I had a look at it and inspired myself from some of
your comments below.
It went well overall, though the time was too short
:-(
I have not look at Gobby yet...
Ant
--- Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/4/06, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due
to
lack
of information avail on the site, and maybe lack
of
reference presentations.
My presentation from Korea is still available here:
http://image.ohmynews.com/down/etc/1/todd_234334_1%5B1%5D.pdf
I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on
the web during my
presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard
information.
I really should do another SOTW, but they keep
getting longer and
longer. :-) I spent a whole weekend on the last one.
To find some of
the more interesting content, I suggest browsing
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category%3AOriginal_reporting
and its various translations. For some recent
statistics, see
Wikistats, particularly the "New Articles Per Day":
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm
German and English are still the main sites that
produce a steady flow
of articles and original reporting. Polish and
Italian also seem to be
doing OK. All the others still seem to lack critical
community mass.
On the English edition, audio and print versions are
seeing quite
regular updates. The German version is experimenting
with short
reports in addition to full length stories, which
seem to be working
fine. The "Interview of the Month" has worked well
for some time:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month
and en: has seen a fairly high number of detailed
interviews recently
(some of them done by myself).
To me, the more interesting challenges for the
future include:
- category-based RSS support for all Wikinews
editions
- redesigning the Main Page(s) to better highlight
exclusive and unique content
- experimenting with collaborative editing tools
like Gobby (
http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi )
- building partnerships with "citizen radio"
projects across the
world, whose interests naturally overlap ours
- also, working with journalism faculties at
universities to produce content
Good luck with your presentation!
Erik
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