On 7/4/06, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due to lack of information avail on the site, and maybe lack of reference presentations.
My presentation from Korea is still available here: http://image.ohmynews.com/down/etc/1/todd_234334_1%5B1%5D.pdf
I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on the web during my presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard information.
I really should do another SOTW, but they keep getting longer and longer. :-) I spent a whole weekend on the last one. To find some of the more interesting content, I suggest browsing http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category%3AOriginal_reporting and its various translations. For some recent statistics, see Wikistats, particularly the "New Articles Per Day": http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm
German and English are still the main sites that produce a steady flow of articles and original reporting. Polish and Italian also seem to be doing OK. All the others still seem to lack critical community mass.
On the English edition, audio and print versions are seeing quite regular updates. The German version is experimenting with short reports in addition to full length stories, which seem to be working fine. The "Interview of the Month" has worked well for some time: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month and en: has seen a fairly high number of detailed interviews recently (some of them done by myself).
To me, the more interesting challenges for the future include: - category-based RSS support for all Wikinews editions - redesigning the Main Page(s) to better highlight exclusive and unique content - experimenting with collaborative editing tools like Gobby ( http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi ) - building partnerships with "citizen radio" projects across the world, whose interests naturally overlap ours - also, working with journalism faculties at universities to produce content
Good luck with your presentation!
Erik