I remember vaguely we tried some sort of "wikipedia newspaper" some time ago, but it didn't work. Today I saw a similar attempt on the German 'pedia, where you should add today's date each day on a special page and write about current events from the news.
This might actually work on wikipedia.com, if we'd automatically add a link to "today" (like [[2002-03-22]]) in the sidebar. It would draw attention and remind people there's something they might want to write about. That way, we'd get at least links to many current topics, and on wikipedia, links tend to turn into articles ;)
Might be worth a try, another link in the sidebar is a small price to pay.
Magnus
I remember vaguely we tried some sort of "wikipedia newspaper" some time ago, but it didn't work. Today I saw a similar attempt on the German 'pedia, where you should add today's date each day on a special page and write about current events from the news.
This might actually work on wikipedia.com, if we'd automatically add a link to "today" (like [[2002-03-22]]) in the sidebar. It would draw attention and remind people there's something they might want to write about. That way, we'd get at least links to many current topics, and on wikipedia, links tend to turn into articles ;)
How is this different from http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Current+events
?
It would differ * by making the existence of such page(s) more obvious and more easy to access * by reminding the 'pedians to go there (red "edit me" link!); I myself haven't visited the "current events" in a while * by making it more prominent, more edits should occur, covering more topics, thus making the 'pedia more complete
Magnus
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I remember vaguely we tried some sort of "wikipedia newspaper" some time ago, but it didn't work. Today I saw a similar attempt on the German
'pedia,
where you should add today's date each day on a special page and write
about
current events from the news.
This might actually work on wikipedia.com, if we'd automatically add a
link
to "today" (like [[2002-03-22]]) in the sidebar. It would draw attention
and
remind people there's something they might want to write about. That way, we'd get at least links to many current topics, and on wikipedia, links
tend
to turn into articles ;)
How is this different from http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Current+events
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Manske" magnus.manske@epost.de To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:56 AM Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] History/Daily news
| It would differ | * by making the existence of such page(s) more obvious and more easy to | access | * by reminding the 'pedians to go there (red "edit me" link!); I myself | haven't visited the "current events" in a while | * by making it more prominent, more edits should occur, covering more | topics, thus making the 'pedia more complete | | Magnus
I think its a good idea and worth a try. Should it be a dud we can always get rid of it with no harm done.
regards.
WojPob
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