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.
The same is true of research and questions page. We really do want people to be actively editing this page, but we may protect it for the hour or so of the actual interview, so questions are not being altered at the time they are being asked.
Feel free to suggest this to Slashdot; obviously questions could be copied from the Slashdot comments to the research and questions page, but we don't want to use Slashdot as the working/editing space since they haven't agreed to hosting that.
Amgine