Jimmy suggested that we should get the blogosphere more involved in the Wikinews project. Indeed, many bloggers do the kind of work that Wikinews requires: summarizing the news from a large number of sources. True, bloggers are often less than neutral, but their entries may serve as a useful basis for Wikinews articles, if we can convince them to put them under an open license. There is also the question of how to raise visibility of Wikinews within the world of blogs. RSS is essential here. We do have one useful RSS feed, namely the one of Special:Newpages, but few people are aware of it.
In order to communicate to bloggers what Wikinews is all about, and to get them excited about the project, we are holding an open IRC chat on February 5, 22:00 UTC, on #wikinews (irc.freenode.net). Please help in setting the agenda and working on the list of invitations to bloggers. I think it would be nice if we could personalize those.
The Meta page is on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chat
which will also be used to organize the agenda for future project-wide chats. Please register yourself there if you intend to come.
All best,
Erik
Erik, this is a great idea. Though I'm wondering if there's a way to establish a dialogue that isn't necessarily real-time, but something we can keep open and have a continuing conversation.
RSS is essential for Wikinews. For example, for a page like [[en:Current_events_in_Hong_Kong_and_Macao]], it would be great to have an RSS feed of the latest news headlines that blog sites can incorporate. It would be great for a blog site I'm overseeing, http://www.chattergarden.com.
Another question is how to address all the "Current events..." pages in Wikipedia, and how they relate to what Wikinews is doing.
-Andrew
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:10:07 +0100, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Jimmy suggested that we should get the blogosphere more involved in the Wikinews project. Indeed, many bloggers do the kind of work that Wikinews requires: summarizing the news from a large number of sources. True, bloggers are often less than neutral, but their entries may serve as a useful basis for Wikinews articles, if we can convince them to put them under an open license. There is also the question of how to raise visibility of Wikinews within the world of blogs. RSS is essential here. We do have one useful RSS feed, namely the one of Special:Newpages, but few people are aware of it.
In order to communicate to bloggers what Wikinews is all about, and to get them excited about the project, we are holding an open IRC chat on February 5, 22:00 UTC, on #wikinews (irc.freenode.net). Please help in setting the agenda and working on the list of invitations to bloggers. I think it would be nice if we could personalize those.
The Meta page is on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chatwhich will also be used to organize the agenda for future project-wide chats. Please register yourself there if you intend to come.
All best,
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