Besides Wikinews radio, there's another exciting development on the English Wikinews: the Rwanda newshut.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rwanda_newshut
Every week, Wikinews chooses a new country to focus on (an idea by User:CGorman). Rwanda was picked because we have a volunteer reporter over there, Clare White. She has just submitted her first original reporting:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UN_reports_Rwandan_refugees_repatriated_by_force
See also her Rwanda conference project at:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cmwhite
More on this in my next State of the Wiki report.
On a related note, we've also recently had some OR from Iran, via Instant Messenger: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/More_political%2C_soccer-related_unrest_in_Iran_...
Best,
Erik
Just to let you all know, because of the large interest currently in Rwanda by the wikinews community and the considerable efforts of Clare, Rwanda will be the Country of the Week (COTW) for two weeks instead of the normal one. Please feel free to vote for future COTW's or to sign up as an interested member - no commitment is required - just interest.
Ciarán Gorman
On 6/15/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Besides Wikinews radio, there's another exciting development on the English Wikinews: the Rwanda newshut.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rwanda_newshut
Every week, Wikinews chooses a new country to focus on (an idea by User:CGorman). Rwanda was picked because we have a volunteer reporter over there, Clare White. She has just submitted her first original reporting:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UN_reports_Rwandan_refugees_repatriated_by_force
See also her Rwanda conference project at:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cmwhite
More on this in my next State of the Wiki report.
On a related note, we've also recently had some OR from Iran, via Instant Messenger:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/More_political%2C_soccer-related_unrest_in_Iran_...
Best,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
Thank you so much to everyone who helped and supported the Rwanda week, I'm back in London now after an amazing time over there. Live reporting was much harder than I expected so the whole thing would not have been possible if it hadn't been for all the efforts others put into writing Rwanda stories and I know it was hugely appreciated by people there, who are much more used to being ignored by the international community.
I've still got one more report from one of the group which I will submit retrospectively if it's still relevant.
I'm planning to write a report on what can be learnt from the experience in terms of access to technology, other problems, the usefulness of Wikinews in getting alternative voices heard and potential future ideas so will do that soon, hope it will be useful. Erik, if you could let me know when you're working on State of the Wiki I can try and get it to you before then?
Also, someone from the Boston Globe called me out there to talk about the conference & Wikinews (hopefully he also spoke to someone with rather more experience...) I think he was comparing WN with Ohmynews (?) so we'll see what he comes up with.
I've been completely convinced of the value of WN over the past week and look forward to continued involvement!
Best wishes Clare (ClareWhite)
Hi Clare, thank you for the report.
http://www.progressiveu.org/node/412 about the Never Again Youth Forum on genocide prevention in Kigali has this small notice:
A media group took part in the conference and reported it for Wikinews this week. They will now produce a publication which will be translated into Kinyarwandan and distributed vocally as well as on paper as a way of involving young Rwandese from rural areas who have very high levels of poverty and illiteracy.
2005/6/21, Clare-Marie White clare@thefriend.org:
Ohmynews (?)
Most certainly the korean based collaborative news site http://english.ohmynews.com/
regards, thoken
Hello Clare!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped and supported the Rwanda week, I'm back in London now after an amazing time over there. Live reporting was much harder than I expected so the whole thing would not have been possible if it hadn't been for all the efforts others put into writing Rwanda stories and I know it was hugely appreciated by people there, who are much more used to being ignored by the international community.
Now if only we could establish a permanent presence there .. One thing that might work is using cell phones to record reports, which are at least somewhat widespread in Africa. There's a project underway to make Wikipedia content available to Africans via cell phones (using text-to-speech and free callbacks), perhaps a similar approach could be used for Wikinews, both for recording and reading (listening to) news. Anyone interested in working on this - drop me a mail, and I'll put you in touch with the right people.
I'm planning to write a report on what can be learnt from the experience in terms of access to technology, other problems, the usefulness of Wikinews in getting alternative voices heard and potential future ideas so will do that soon, hope it will be useful. Erik, if you could let me know when you're working on State of the Wiki I can try and get it to you before then?
Will be written and published in early July probably. I'm planning to do a little user survey again, and I'll contact you when I do that.
Also, someone from the Boston Globe called me out there to talk about the conference & Wikinews (hopefully he also spoke to someone with rather more experience...) I think he was comparing WN with Ohmynews (?) so we'll see what he comes up with.
OhMyNews is probably the largest citizen journalism project (unless you count Indymedia as citizen journalism). I'm invited to a conference in Seoul this week to speak about Wikinews at the OhMyNews forum. I'll try to give you all an idea what these people are working on when I get back.
I've been completely convinced of the value of WN over the past week and look forward to continued involvement!
Wonderful. It's great to have you on board.
Best,
Erik
I received an email from Joe Light of the Boston Globe about a week ago requesting an interview with me. I responded enthusiastically giving him a list of times to call; however I have'nt heard from him since.
Ciaran
On 6/21/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Hello Clare!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped and supported the Rwanda week,
I'm
back in London now after an amazing time over there. Live reporting was
much
harder than I expected so the whole thing would not have been possible
if it
hadn't been for all the efforts others put into writing Rwanda stories
and I
know it was hugely appreciated by people there, who are much more used
to
being ignored by the international community.
Now if only we could establish a permanent presence there .. One thing that might work is using cell phones to record reports, which are at least somewhat widespread in Africa. There's a project underway to make Wikipedia content available to Africans via cell phones (using text-to-speech and free callbacks), perhaps a similar approach could be used for Wikinews, both for recording and reading (listening to) news. Anyone interested in working on this - drop me a mail, and I'll put you in touch with the right people.
I'm planning to write a report on what can be learnt from the experience
in
terms of access to technology, other problems, the usefulness of
Wikinews in
getting alternative voices heard and potential future ideas so will do
that
soon, hope it will be useful. Erik, if you could let me know when you're working on State of the Wiki I can try and get it to you before then?
Will be written and published in early July probably. I'm planning to do a little user survey again, and I'll contact you when I do that.
Also, someone from the Boston Globe called me out there to talk about
the
conference & Wikinews (hopefully he also spoke to someone with rather
more
experience...) I think he was comparing WN with Ohmynews (?) so we'll
see
what he comes up with.
OhMyNews is probably the largest citizen journalism project (unless you count Indymedia as citizen journalism). I'm invited to a conference in Seoul this week to speak about Wikinews at the OhMyNews forum. I'll try to give you all an idea what these people are working on when I get back.
I've been completely convinced of the value of WN over the past week and look forward to continued involvement!
Wonderful. It's great to have you on board.
Best,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
Hi fellows,
I also got a call from Joe Light of the Globe. He mentioned that he had talked to NGerda as well.
He interviewed me for a while, and today a photographer showed up at the summer camp that I worked at and shot a bunch of photos. The photographer was a little confused-- he seemed to think that the camp had something to with Wikinews, or vice versa. Anyway, Joe said the article would be out this week.
I'll let he know if I hear anything.
Brandon
On 6/22/05, Ciaran Gorman cgorman03@gmail.com wrote:
I received an email from Joe Light of the Boston Globe about a week ago requesting an interview with me. I responded enthusiastically giving him a list of times to call; however I have'nt heard from him since.
Ciaran
On 6/21/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Hello Clare!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped and supported the Rwanda week,
I'm
back in London now after an amazing time over there. Live reporting was
much
harder than I expected so the whole thing would not have been possible
if it
hadn't been for all the efforts others put into writing Rwanda stories
and I
know it was hugely appreciated by people there, who are much more used
to
being ignored by the international community.
Now if only we could establish a permanent presence there .. One thing that might work is using cell phones to record reports, which are at least somewhat widespread in Africa. There's a project underway to make Wikipedia content available to Africans via cell phones (using text-to-speech and free callbacks), perhaps a similar approach could be used for Wikinews, both for recording and reading (listening to) news. Anyone interested in working on this - drop me a mail, and I'll put you in touch with the right people.
I'm planning to write a report on what can be learnt from the experience
in
terms of access to technology, other problems, the usefulness of
Wikinews in
getting alternative voices heard and potential future ideas so will do
that
soon, hope it will be useful. Erik, if you could let me know when
you're
working on State of the Wiki I can try and get it to you before then?
Will be written and published in early July probably. I'm planning to do a little user survey again, and I'll contact you when I do that.
Also, someone from the Boston Globe called me out there to talk about
the
conference & Wikinews (hopefully he also spoke to someone with rather
more
experience...) I think he was comparing WN with Ohmynews (?) so we'll
see
what he comes up with.
OhMyNews is probably the largest citizen journalism project (unless you count Indymedia as citizen journalism). I'm invited to a conference in Seoul this week to speak about Wikinews at the OhMyNews forum. I'll try to give you all an idea what these people are working on when I get back.
I've been completely convinced of the value of WN over the past week
and
look forward to continued involvement!
Wonderful. It's great to have you on board.
Best,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
On 6/22/05, Brandon Stafford brandon.stafford@gmail.com wrote:
Hi fellows,
I also got a call from Joe Light of the Globe. He mentioned that he had talked to NGerda as well.
Hooray for the Globe, confused or not. They seem to be making up for earlier wikiambivalence and are truly interested in the concept and projects.
Seoul this week to speak about Wikinews at the OhMyNews forum. I'll try to give you all an idea what these people are working on when I get back.
Yes, a detailed comparison of how they treat and vet their reporters would be useful. I wasn't able to get nearly enough detail from public descriptions of their work.
SJ
Hi,
For some unknown reasons (probably a discussion about LA Times), a french journalist contacted us today... with the desire to do an article on wikinews just *today*. Mostly the french wikinews :-( With only a couple of hours to react. It was tough :-)
Here is the result :-) http://www.01net.com/editorial/282414/presse-en-ligne/le-wiki-a-l-ecole-de-l...
Cheers
Ant
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