[Foundation-l] London 7/7, and Wikinews

[Jerome Jamnicky]

Dan Grey wrote:

[snip]

> We were the first on the web with the news, anywhere:
> http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Coordinated_terrorist_attack_hits_London&oldid=96968
> 
> Within a few hours, a team of people were working to
> create the most up-to-date and most authorative news
> article anywhere on the Internet. Co-ordinating
> ourselves largely through the IRC channel (which
> anyone can access with just their browser using a
> simple link), we had people from both around the world
> and right in London searching for photographs, getting
> permission to use them, taking notes from spokesmen
> and press conferences, and constantly updating and
> fact-checking our articles.
> 
> Twenty-four hours later, our main article - 
> 
> http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Coordinated_terrorist_attack_hits_London&oldid=98893
> 
> has had some 60,000 hits from Europe (excluding
> France) alone. 

Looking at the webalizer stats, which are for the entire globe, there 
are about 60,000 hits in total, which would make the Europe figure quite 
a lot smaller.

>(Thanks to Kate for the stats.) As most
> of our traffic comes from North America, it's
> reasonable to assume that we had well in excess of
> 100,000 reads that day. Small in comparison to any
> major news service, but it proves we're on the map.
> 

----
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com