I've been thinking about that thread, and well it
doesn't really have
a lot of practical advice at first glance, here's some thoughts I came
up with (these thoughts may be rough arround the edges/unsuitable,
this is just off the top of my head)
*Synthesis vs OR - should we be doing more to highlight our original
reporting. Currently we highlight OR by a list on the sidebar of the
main page, and a little box on the article. Should we do more? In the
early days of wikinews, We at one point wrote '''Original
Reporting'''
in italics beside any OR article name in the big list of articles on
the Main Page. perhaps we should revisit that idea. (cf example:
[[Wikinews:2005/June/18]])
*Someone on the foundation-l thread was comparing a news website to a
newspaper, and talked about one of the main benifits of a news paper
is you can see lots of different articles all at once. Perhaps one
radical main page design would be instead of a list of articles + a
couple leads, the entire main page is leads that change on each page
load to different articles or something.
thoughts?
-bawolff
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
What can Wikinews take from this and work on?
A repeated concern is that we’re always ‘behind the times’ when we do
synthesis reports. There’s a degree of truth to that, but taking material
from multiple mainstream reports should make our coverage more
comprehensive, if albeit a little later.
Second, is how can we work with others? Blogs, Indymedia, and so on all
generally have a bias and/or axe to grind. This runs counter to NPOV.
Third, original reporting. Considering the size of the contributor base I
think we do pretty well on this. Are there ways we can attract more people
to do investigative work? Should we be organising things to have an online
‘Wikinews Rolodex’ for accredited reporters?
Can’t think of anything else from this or the discussion on foundation-l –
was surprised that was so reasonable and not “damn Wikinews! We can do news
in Wikipedia!”.
Brian.
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Ragesoss, who has written Wikinews OR, has some thoughts about Wikinews on
his blog.
There is also a live thread about Wikinews on foundation-l.
--SVTCobra
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Bauder
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websites
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We'll pay what something is worth, to us.
Murdock controls the Wall
Street Journal and The Times, of London. They are both pretty
good. I
paid $20 a year for full access to The New York Times. That is
what I can
imagine paying for a high quality on-line publication. This is
not a
solution for the average paper in trouble, such as The Rocky Mountain
Journal. They may not be worth much to anyone.
Fred Bauder
Good luck to them - somehow i can't imagine
most people paying
for it.
-bawolff
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'free' in our tag line
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>> If this idea spreads it could fundamentally change the way
we create
charging-websites
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