Good luck to them - somehow i can't imagine most people paying for it. -bawolff On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:

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 pmSubject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websitesTo: Wikinews mailing list > 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> >> >> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jon Davis > wrote:> >> Well it would bring new meaning to 'free' in our tag line > "The free> >> news> >> source you can write!"> >>> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 16:53, wrote:> >>>> >>> If this idea spreads it could fundamentally change the way > we create> >>> most> >>> of our articles ...> >>>> >>> Guardian article:> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/07/rupert-murdoch-> charging-websites> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________> >>> Wikinews-l mailing list> >>> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> --> >> Jon> >> [[User:ShakataGaNai]]> >> http://snowulf.com/ - Blog> >> http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures> >> This has been a test of the emergency sig system.> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________> >> Wikinews-l mailing list> >> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________> > Wikinews-l mailing list> > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l> >> > > > _______________________________________________> Wikinews-l mailing list> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l>

A relatively interesting discussion - but I don't see any clear points we can take action from. -----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of bawolff Sent: 12 May 2009 01:12 To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websites Here's a link to the first message in the thread for those not subscribed to foundation-l http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/051762.html -- -bawolff On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:17 PM, <wikinewssvt(a)optonline.net> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

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: