Brian wrote:
I think a good idea for easily getting good
questions (since the
current questions are pretty generic), as well as increasing the
positive interest in Wikinews (since people like the EFF) is to make
a post on Slashdot in the style of "ask your questions on Slashdot,
and a selection of the highest moderated quesitons will be picked to
specifically ask Danny O'Brien". Then you can pick out some good
questions, ask him, and make another Slashdot post once the entire
interview has been written up.
I'm going to try to get a story on Slashdot. I would suggest that
someone protect
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006…
(although I won't link to it). As for the IRC interview, I hope it is
being set up so that the interviewee can be separated from the rest
of the people. He should probably be in his own channel, which has
restricted access.
brian0918
Actually, we want exactly the opposite.
The point of the interview is to be available for many people to be
involved in creating the questions, and to write their own articles
about what happened during the interview; what the answers mean. For
this reason we want the interviewee to be in the same channel as
everyone else. That doesn't mean the channel will be open for everyone
to shout questions: we will probably set the channel to moderated, and
only allow the interviewee and the interviewer to be voiced.
That's basically what I meant. The interviewee and interviewer will make
their official statements in the main, moderated channel, while another
channel is set up for everyone to submit questions to the interviewer,
and for other random discussion to occur.