Hi all,
In accordance with the discussion at
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#Wikinews_Hotline,
the Wikinews Hotline has been shut down. The primary reasons were cost
of maintenance, combined with lack of use.
I wanted to thank everyone who is subscribed to this list. The hotline
was always an experiment, and a pretty rare experiment for a community
news organization. While I'm disappointed that it never really worked,
I am happy that we got to try this approach.
The door on something like the hotline is not closed. I continue to
believe in the power of telephone-based reporting from the field.
However, I would encourage anyone intending to try this again in the
future to think about the usefulness of the hotline first. For the
hotline to be successful, there need to be a lot of people who have
this number programmed into their phones -- with the Wikinews Hotline
this had never happened, even though it was on the Wikinews homepage
for several years.
I will leave this list running, unless it becomes a haven for spam, in
case someone wants to bring the hotline back.
-ilya haykinson
That was just me - I was interested to see how the hotline works for users.
Sorry :)
Brian
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