[Foundation-l] Wikinews and invitations to events

[Guillaume Paumier]

On 5/18/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As a UK media contact for Wikimedia, so I get all sorts of stuff in my
> > email. One I just got was for a demonstration/picket to be held in
> > London soon, from the group protesting. Let's assume I'm unable to
> > make it to cover it myself ... is there anywhere to put these things
> > for those who may be interested in going out with a notepad and
> > camera?
>
> I would make a page on Wikinews with subpages for each region, people
> can then watch the regions they can get to (what size each region is
> is negotiable) and when it appears on their watchlist, off they go. It
> would be an excellent way of getting good articles.


I have created a rough draft of such a system:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Upcoming_events

All comments / improvements are welcome.

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Guillaume Paumier
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