On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Schwenlists@schwen.de wrote:
than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and have a bot match articles with missing images to users in the area. It also would make "requests for better images" feasible if they would get pushed to the user, instead of them having to check for potential work. Why would you even call this "bugging" the users? People sign up for a reason, and that is to contribute, not to be left alone.
Semantic MediaWiki has the ability to do geocode searches within a radius of an area. That search then has an RSS feed the user can subscribe to. I'm not proposing wikinews use SMW; however, a feature like this seems more appropriate than pushing things to users.
Don't people sign up to work on stuff they feel like working on? I could see how pushing everything within a radius of them could get a little annoying.
V/r,
Ryan Lane