Hi, About some 8 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like "Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so. So I bring the news for the Wikimedia family like Wikinews is bringing news to the world. I am writing this fist of all to ask for your cooperation with this newsletter. To be able to report news first the news must be known. "The Water cooler" is one of the pages I look for to find news about Wikinews. But it can be that I do not notice something. Or, more likely, it is not there to find. And especially if it is going on other Wikinews language editions I will not find out about it. So I request that if there is news about your project, especially for the non-English editions, that you would report the news to me, to Wikizine. Let the readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia. A way to make it more likely that someone will think about Wikizine is to put a banner on your userpage or even better on a public page like the "Water Cooler", also for the non-English Wikinews versions.; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners On the other side I try to get the news downhill to as most of the projects and especially languages as possible. Because of piratical reasons Wikizine can only be in English. But it would be fantastic if people would be willing to translate the news and share it with there community. A total translation of Wikizine is great but also a lot of work. Maybe only translating the most relevant news can be enough for starting. You could work together across the different projects in the same languages. By cross-project cooperation the work of translation can be shared. Just only subscribing to Wikizine only is also useful of course. Then you at least are informed. Reading Wikizine can by email. Just click here below and follow the instructions; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe Or you can also read Wikizine from the website; http://www.wikizine.org Thank you for reading this and I hope to receive some news from Wikinews! Greetings, Walter The guy from Wikizine http://www.wikizine.org To subscribe; mailto:request at wikizine.org?subject=subscribe _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org

On 7/4/06, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote: lack of My presentation from Korea is still available here:

I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on the web during my presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard information. I really should do another SOTW, but they keep getting longer and longer. :-) I spent a whole weekend on the last one. To find some of the more interesting content, I suggest browsing

and its various translations. For some recent statistics, see Wikistats, particularly the "New Articles Per Day":

German and English are still the main sites that produce a steady flow of articles and original reporting. Polish and Italian also seem to be doing OK. All the others still seem to lack critical community mass. On the English edition, audio and print versions are seeing quite regular updates. The German version is experimenting with short reports in addition to full length stories, which seem to be working fine. The "Interview of the Month" has worked well for some time:

and en: has seen a fairly high number of detailed interviews recently (some of them done by myself). To me, the more interesting challenges for the future include: - category-based RSS support for all Wikinews editions - redesigning the Main Page(s) to better highlight exclusive and unique content - experimenting with collaborative editing tools like Gobby ( http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi ) - building partnerships with "citizen radio" projects across the world, whose interests naturally overlap ours - also, working with journalism faculties at universities to produce content Good luck with your presentation! Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org