[Foundation-l] Wikinews & Bloggers: Open Chat on February 5

[Erik Moeller]

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