From: "David Speakman" <david(a)speakman.com>
Date: 2005/08/16 Tue AM 03:34:40 EDT
To: "'Wikinews mailing list'" <wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org>
Subject: Opposed to any more policy-setting via chat rooms RE: [Wikinews-l]
Todo list/Wikinews Future Talk 3
I am against use of IRC to set Wikinews policy.
These sessions are always attended by the same small group of people -
whereas the majority of WN contributors cannot make it to the chats for
various reasons.
There is no valid argument as to why each and every issue raised cannot be
handled in the wiki way - via talk pages. It may be slower, but it provides
an adequate way for ALL interested parties to participate regardless of time
zone.
--
David Speakman
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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Craig Spurrier
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:51 PM
To: Wikinews mailing list
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Todo list/Wikinews Future Talk 3
Hello,
I think a third future talk is a great idea. I do however
have a few issues with this proposal.
The date appears to be randomly chosen. IRC and any other
real time methods will exclude people based upon timezones
and available times. All of the other future talks times have
been chosen by creating a page with a list of possible times,
and having people indicate what dates/times they are
available. The date/time with the most people available is
then used. If they are unable to make the listed times, they
are encouraged to list what times they would be able to make.
My second issue with this is the inclusion of the WNN
proposal in the items to discus. This proposal has been
discussed many times, and the results are always the same,
people arguing with nothing accomplished. The WNN proposal if
it is to survive, needs either to be ignored until the
project can support it, or for the previous discussions to be
acted upon.
My third issue with it is Nick moderating it, no past future
talk has been moderated, and I do not think it should be
especially by some one with such strong opinions on many of the topics
Craig Spurrier
Nicholas Gerda wrote:
Eloquence, Ed Brown and I came up with a starter
list for
work that we
feel should be accomplished on Wikinews. This
list follows and is
freely available for editing at
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Todo_list .
1. Resolve Portal namespace and Portal design issues
(encourage local
reporting). 2. Resolve Google News indexing issues
(Stable version
flagging). 3. Revise decision-making process (Voting policy).
4. Main Page (what belongs, what doesn't belong).
5. Work on modifying WNN proposal to appease community's requests.
6. Encourage more Investigative reporting.
7. User-friendliness (we currently have high standards,
possible "This
just in" raw news box).
8. Expand editor base (Contact college journalism departments, etc.).
These will be the set topics for Wikinews Future Talk 3,
which I plan
on moderating on Saturday, August 20, at 21:00
UTC.
Nick
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