I believe that we need to make the Wikinews-hotline archives private, and only available for list members, since technically the incoming voicemails are multi-licensed as CC-BY and Public Domain (voicemail says CC-BY), but nowhere on list archives does it say CC-BY. This would prevent CNN from coming on, seeing an interesting story, and taking it. -- Thunderhead http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead _______________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: I hold no official position in the Wikimedia Foundation. This message expresses the views of a single Wikimedia user and not necessarily the community at large. _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

Really what needs to be done imo, is to have a bot sit and upload them to commons as they come in (and sort them on wiki) -bawolff On Nov 5, 2007 4:50 AM, Paul Williams <paul(a)skenmy.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

Well, I want to start a larger conversation on the Hotline's usefulness. As some of you know I am paying US$25 per month to maintain it, and I don't really think that it's shown $25/month worth of usefulness to us. While there is certainly a great potential for such a hotline, I don't know if it makes sense for us to continue investing our time (and attention) into something that's not really shown itself to be a success. My proposal would be to completely disable the hotline, due to low use, unless someone can come up with a workable plan for encouraging it's use. -ilya On Nov 7, 2007 5:29 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: > That sounds like a good idea; any takers? > > > On Nov 7, 2007 8:26 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Really what needs to be done imo, is to have a bot sit and upload them > > to commons as they come in (and sort them on wiki) > > > > -bawolff > > > > > > On Nov 5, 2007 4:50 AM, Paul Williams <paul(a)skenmy.com > wrote: > > > To be honest, I don't think this is being used as effectively as it

> > > be. The hotline system could do with an overhaul - perhaps new

> > > This sounds like a job for a wiki-brainstorm though :D > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikinews-l mailing list > > > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikinews-l mailing list > > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > > > > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > > --- > Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails

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