Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
I'd envisage several categories of article;
* Time-based (day/week/month/year/decade); Brief summaries of the news items of the day/week/whatever.
* Sections; broad, persistent areas of news - politics, war, media, etc
* Threads; this is where most of the actual content would reside. A "thread" would represent a discrete story; the Washington Sniper, the US 2002 mid-term elections, the UK Tory leadership uncertainty of Autumn 2002.
This project would rely on wikipedia for background, and things like "Current events" could be migrated out to this project if desired (if and when the project was established and proven).
there's been vague rumblings on this idea over at Meatball:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TimeStream
Jason Williams wrote:
Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
I'd envisage several categories of article;
Time-based (day/week/month/year/decade); Brief summaries of the news items of the day/week/whatever.
Sections; broad, persistent areas of news - politics, war, media, etc
Threads; this is where most of the actual content would reside. A "thread" would represent a discrete story; the Washington Sniper, the US 2002 mid-term elections, the UK Tory leadership uncertainty of Autumn 2002.
This project would rely on wikipedia for background, and things like "Current events" could be migrated out to this project if desired (if and when the project was established and proven).
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:29:42PM +0000, tarquin wrote:
there's been vague rumblings on this idea over at Meatball:
I think there would be immense benefits to making it a project closely tied to wikipeda; an excellent background resource, a well-established, active community with a shared set of good values (NPOV, most prominently) firmly entrenched.
Is anybody actually interested in taking part in an experiment on these lines?
Jason Williams wrote:
Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
You can always try it as an experimenting. Wikipedia however on the first place must be a encyclopaedia and should not try to play CNN. I I see more usefulness in the establishment of a special wiki for collecting GNU/FDL photographs. This project can support the encyclopedia with photographs. http://foto.wikipedia.org ? If there is few support it can start at the MetaWikipedia.
Giskart
On 04-11-2002, Giskart wrote thusly :
Jason Williams wrote:
Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
You can always try it as an experimenting. Wikipedia however on the first place must be a encyclopaedia and should not try to play CNN. I I see more usefulness in the establishment of a special wiki for collecting GNU/FDL photographs. This project can support the encyclopedia with photographs. http://foto.wikipedia.org ? If there is few support it can start at the MetaWikipedia.
I am in favour of other kind of "NewsPedia" - the news about all Wikipedias, with language versions with _all_ major languages of Wikipedias. Something along the lines of the deceased Wikipedia:Wikipedia NEWS. I think that it is essential to foster cooperation and unification between Wikipedias as well as to open, at last, a proper avenue for information exchange between Wikipedias. We want to have one unified project, don't we ?
Regards, Kpjas.
--- "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" kpj@gower.pl wrote:
I am in favour of other kind of "NewsPedia" - the news about all Wikipedias, with language versions with _all_ major languages of Wikipedias. Something along the lines of the deceased Wikipedia:Wikipedia NEWS. I think that it is essential to foster cooperation and unification between Wikipedias as well as to open, at last, a proper avenue for information exchange between Wikipedias. We want to have one unified project, don't we ?
Yes, I'd like to get this going, too. So let's do it! Start a proposal page on meta.wikipedia.org, and I'll be along shortly. ;-)
Stephen G.
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--- Giskart giskart@wikipedia.be wrote:
I see more usefulness in the establishment of a special wiki for collecting GNU/FDL photographs. This project can support the encyclopedia with photographs.
Please do me a favor and place those photos in the public domain, like the GIMP photo archive http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ (or skip the wiki part and contribute there directly). We are having enough trouble with the GFDL as is. It isn't really designed for photos at all, and most of its provisions don't even make sense in that context.
Axel
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Giskart wrote:
Jason Williams wrote:
Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
You can always try it as an experimenting.
Is there any chance of getting an "official experiment" set up, or should I set up a wiki on some random webspace of my own somewhere?
I would certainly be interested in participating in this. Zoe Jason Williams jason@jasonandali.org.uk wrote:Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
I'd envisage several categories of article;
* Time-based (day/week/month/year/decade); Brief summaries of the news items of the day/week/whatever.
* Sections; broad, persistent areas of news - politics, war, media, etc
* Threads; this is where most of the actual content would reside. A "thread" would represent a discrete story; the Washington Sniper, the US 2002 mid-term elections, the UK Tory leadership uncertainty of Autumn 2002.
This project would rely on wikipedia for background, and things like "Current events" could be migrated out to this project if desired (if and when the project was established and proven).
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