Wikinews-l February 2006

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Re: [Wikinews-l] Survey on Wikinews: Study on Collaborative News Models
by David Speakman 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hsing, thank you for your academic interest in Wikinews. A focus by academia on various aspects of emerging media is sorely needed. You are doing a great service to society by taking this project on. I have a few concerns, though. Upon reading your letter, I am confused. It appears you may be starting with a flawed premise. Sites such as OhMyNews and Global Voices are neither news nor are they collaborative. They are simply collections of blogs that are prone to flawed reporting due to opinion, purposeful inaccuracy, fiction posing as fact and error through lack of news-gathering ability of its writers. I do hope you keep in mind the long tradition of Western-style news creation and reportage (which Wikinews strives to accomplish) that requires third-party editing, a neutral point of view with good-faith attempts at elimination of bias toward the subject matter and, traditionally, a centralized system of well-reasoned story assignment and selection to ensure broad and accurate reportage. Even Wikinews falls short in the ability for well-reasoned story assignment since it is more haphazard in its approach to news. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hsing_Wei(a)ksg06.harvard.edu > To: wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikinews-l] Survey on Wikinews: Study on Collaborative News Models > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:59:08 -0500 > > > > Dear Members of the Wikinews community, > > I'm a masters student in the Kennedy School at Harvard doing research on > collaborative news sites (such as OhMyNews, Global Voices, etc). Every few > months, new websites are cropping up with innovative ways of enabling and > engaging people in creating and sharing news content. This phenomenon has > sparked both enthusiasm and controversy. > > I was hoping to get your perspectives as visitors and members on the > Wikinews site. To ease the process, I have a short, 5 minute survey set up > at either: > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=887731774310 (email link) > > or > > <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=887731774310">Click here to > take Wikinews survey</a> (website link) > > In addition, I'm trying to reach as many readers and members of the > Wikinews community as possible. If it is possible to add the survey links > to your personal blogs, I would be most grateful for the help on furthering > this research. It is very much self-running once posted. Also, if there > is advice on how this survey might be posted for a few days on the Wikinews > frontpage, any tips would be great. > > Please do not hestitate to contact me directly. Thanks!! > > Sincerely, > Hsing > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > Wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >

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Survey on Wikinews: Study on Collaborative News Models
by Hsing_Wei＠ksg06.harvard.edu 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear Members of the Wikinews community, I'm a masters student in the Kennedy School at Harvard doing research on collaborative news sites (such as OhMyNews, Global Voices, etc). Every few months, new websites are cropping up with innovative ways of enabling and engaging people in creating and sharing news content. This phenomenon has sparked both enthusiasm and controversy. I was hoping to get your perspectives as visitors and members on the Wikinews site. To ease the process, I have a short, 5 minute survey set up at either: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=887731774310 (email link) or <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=887731774310">Click here to take Wikinews survey</a> (website link) In addition, I'm trying to reach as many readers and members of the Wikinews community as possible. If it is possible to add the survey links to your personal blogs, I would be most grateful for the help on furthering this research. It is very much self-running once posted. Also, if there is advice on how this survey might be posted for a few days on the Wikinews frontpage, any tips would be great. Please do not hestitate to contact me directly. Thanks!! Sincerely, Hsing

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Chinese Wikinews Poll
by SonicR 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hello list, currently there is a poll on Meta-Wiki about starting a chinese Wikinews edition (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh). The poll was created by "User:Vipuser", who is a user of zh.wikipedia. I don't know if this poll is considered as a poll among the chinese-speaking community or if it intends to be a poll for all. Perhaps others have similar questions concerning this poll. For example you can find this comment among the votes: "not sure if I'm allowed to vote here". It would be great if someone could clarify this aspect, for example by writing an english introduction of the poll. Greetings Stefan [SonicR]

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Volunteers needed for the Wikimania Program Team
by Angela 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

This is a call for volunteers to join the Program Team for Wikimania 2006 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006>, the second international Wikimedia conference, to be held in Boston this August. The Program Team are responsible for creating the program, inviting keynote speakers, reviewing proposals for presentations, workshops, and papers, organizing the speakers when they arrive at the conference, and related tasks. A call for papers <http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers> was recently distributed, so we are looking for people willing to help review these papers as they arrive in Indico <http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/>. Please add yourself to <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_Team> if you can help. I am sending this to all project lists since I'm especially trying to find 3 more people for the theme of "Wikimedia projects and content". Angela. -- Angela Beesley

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Weekly digest from Wikimedia SCG
by Jovana Milicevic 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

February 8th: Dragan Sataric and Filip Maljkovic speaked in the programe at radio Idea. Jovana Milicevic talked for radio Belgrade. February 11th: In Youth center Dom omladine Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro in cooperation with FSN(Free Software Network) and LUG Belgrade( Linux User Group ) organized speach about free software movement and prehistory of idea of free software. Jovana Milicevic

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Quote of the day
by Erik Moeller 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

"They have exactly zero credibility. Because there is no fact-checking, anybody can go in and put in whatever they want." -- James Pendleton, spokesperson for Senator Conrad Burns, about the Wikinews investigation into staff edits of Burns' Wikipedia article http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2006/02/09/news/wikipedia.txt

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IOTM:February
by Brian Anderton 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

This months Interview with Michael Geist will be taking place on Wednesday, 15 February 2006 at 19:00 UTC. We will be doing research and developing questions at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/February_200… Brian

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IOTM February
by Brian Anderton 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

I'm pleased to announce that Michael Geist has accepted a request for an interview with Wikinews. We will be doing research and developing questions at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/February_200… Time and date: TBA, around the afternoon on the 15th or morning of the 16th. Brian

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Relaunch Chinese Wikinews poll?
by Erik Moeller 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

On February 7, 2005 we had a poll on Meta to gather opinions on how to deal with the particular problem of whether to launch a Chinese language edition of Wikinews or not. Back then, the main reason for not launching the project was that it might jeopardize the Chinese Wikipedia, i.e., put it at risk of censorship. The poll was evenly split, with half favoring launching the project given enough support (which it has), and the other half wanting the decision to be left to the Chinese Wikipedia community (which, incidentally, also voted 50/50): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/China Exactly one year later, I think it might be a good idea to relaunch this poll, with the old votes archived, given that the situation has changed fundamentally. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Wikipedia_in_mainland_China Wikipedia has been censored in mainland China since October 2005. Furthermore, we have all seen large search engines cave in to the Chinese government in recent months. Interestingly enough, recent reports note that Google China is being censored in spite of filtering search results: http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2006/02/03/afx2498050.html To me, this indicates that it may simply not be possible to create an encyclopedia written from the neutral point of view which will be accepted by the current Chinese government. The question then becomes whether it is legitimate for us to continue to put a resource on hold that might be useful to millions of Chinese speakers outside the mainland, i.e. Chinese Wikinews. So, are there any objections to relaunching this poll, or alternative suggestions on how to proceed? I think the "wait and see" approach has gone on long enough. Best, Erik

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World Peace by Wiki?
by Nicholas Gerda 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Dear Wikinewsies, I hope an email to this list is okay as it is about another project, however I think there's lots for all of you to be interested in... Two of us from Wikinews, NGerda and Cmwhite, got a bit sidetracked late last year building a wiki for a youth network called Never Again: http://mdonkin.f2s.com/neveragain. Some may remember that we held a conference last year that was attended by the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/World_Bank_president_addresses_global_youth_for…). This weekend, we are holding an experimental Virtual Retreat to try and put together some ideas about building a more peaceful society. We'd like to invite Wikinewsies to join the retreat, particularly as we really need some more people who are not afraid to plunge into a wiki environment! You may also find an opportunity to report on the retreat itself, which will likely have some interesting outcomes and is taking place in Gisenyi, Rwanda with a cross section of Africans and world youth as well as the Virtual Retreat. Tomorrow at 7pm GMT, investigative journalist Linda Melvern (http://www.amahoro.nl/linda/) will be chatting to us about her work on the Rwandan genocide and what has been learnt since (Freenode IRC #Neveragain). Hope to see you there! Best wishes, Nick and Clare

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