On 13/06/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
A small but growing group of Wikinews contributors is actively making audio recordings of Wikinews stories. This effort is coordinated here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews [...] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:WikiNews_Network
The Wikinews Network looks like a great idea. I'm pleased to see people are working on moving the projects beyond a simple text-based approach.
If we don't want to run it on our servers, should we allow it to be called "Wikinews Network", or should it use a different name?
It would probably depend on why we didn't want to run it on our servers. It could be an official Wikimedia project without being on our own servers.
Should we set any specific limits for the project's scope beyond NPOV, or should we let it experiment freely with the format for the time being? (There was some talk about ads on the program, but I made it clear that this was absolutely impossible.)
Perhaps a trial period will highlight whether or not any limits do need to be set. I'm not convinced NPOV and no-ads are going to be policies that need to be adhered to for this. Aiming for a balance in POV overall rather than in specific items might be better, though this should be experimented with before any decisions are made. Content off the main websites has been published with ads before (at least one of the WikiReaders http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiReader for example), so even that is something which should be open to discussion rather than immediately dismissed, particularly if it isn't going to be hosted on our own servers.
Angela.