Hi everyone,
This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM
PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to
1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.
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Hi everyone,
The next strategic planning office hours are:
Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
-Tuesday (8-9pm PST)
-Tuesday (11pm-12am EST)
There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past
few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work.
Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's
happened as well as the work to come.
As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
____________________
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Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi everyone,
The next strategic planning office hours are:
Tuesday from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 12-1pm PST
Tuesday, 3pm-4pm EST
There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past
few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work.
Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's
happened as well as the work to come.
As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 13:35 -0500, vvandew1(a)ithaca.edu wrote:
> Hi Brian !
>
> I'm a sophomore Journalism major at Ithaca College and for my
> Journalism Ethics class I am writing a paper about the ethical
> dilemmas with citizen journalism. I am focusing my paper on the
> posting of photographs from citizens verses what mainstream media
> posts as their photographs. My main example is the picture that Tearah
> Moore posted from inside Fort Hood during the shooting. I was hoping
> to get a quote from you concerning this because I know you have become
> very successful as a citizen journalist.
As I am in Scotland, I knew of the Fort Hood shooting; but, had to
Google the name "Tearah Moore" for further background on your reference.
The link I ended up reading was:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/nsfw-after-fort-hood-another-example-of-ho…
As laid out therein, both Moore and Hasan were in a position of quite,
quite 'diminished responsibility'; the politely named
unit-cum-medical-facility they were at was for people suffering from
post-traumatic stress syndrome.
This situation is a real dilemma; as a 'social' or 'professional' media
organisation, does accuracy come before speed - or vice versa? In
reality, what needs to change is the approach of the audience. If they
flit like butterflies from one drama to the next, they learn nothing.
And, don't follow up with the talking head opinion pages.
In the "fog-of-war" situation there, I would have questioned use of
Moore's photos, duplicating her captioning, and whole approach to the
situation. How many news services didn't join the dots, find out where
the trouble was, and check if both she and Hasan were in-treatment?
Could Moore be trusted to understand what obligations she'd agreed to in
entering the services she was breaking?
I would suspect a dirty scramble to get a source, and damn the
consequences to the source. This is quite different from the citizen
journalism I engage in. Yes, I've used "shock" pictures, and taken from
twitter.
Take this, [1] Wikinews' initial report of the Haitian Earthquake. I
knew it was big at 7.0, I knew the area was ill-prepared, I picked the
pictures for the followup [2]. There are just times when the view from
on the ground trumps anything else [3].
[1]
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/7.0_magnitude_earthquake_strikes_off_Haitian_co…
[2]
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Details_emerge_in_Haiti_earthquake;_thousands_f…
[3] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Haitian_earthquake:_in_pictures
> My main questions are:
>
> 1) Because of the immediacy that the internet has introduced, citizen
> journalists are able to post graphic images or whatever images they
> please. Do you think this is a bad thing? Why or why not?
As I said in response to your introduction - I've used graphic images.
However, the situation with Moore was one where you might question the
accuracy of non-photographic evidence.
I watched the "Balloon Boy" incident with bemused detachment - it seemed
so unlikely that ridiculous homemade silver contraption has any
passenger, child or otherwise. Both conventional and 'citizen' media
failed to get their respective asses in gear and ask a physicist.
> 2) Do you think that citizen journalists should have to abide by some
> moral code when deciding whether to post a picture or not. Explain.
In the public interest.
And, for a curt explanation; "Context is everything". Professional, or
would-be, you have to accurately attribute the origin of a photo. Where
there is an element of "trust me" to obfuscate the sourcing, you should
have looked into the reliability of the source.
--
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>|http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil
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of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim(a)blueoxen.com>
> Date: February 16, 2010 12:58:46 PM CST
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> Subject: [Foundation-l] strategy office hours
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> >
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry for the late reminder. Strategic planning IRC office hours are
> tonight:
>
> Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
> Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
> Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
>
> As always, you can access the chat by going to
> https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
> name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
> security warning. It's fine. More details at:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
>
> Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
>
> =Eugene
>
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