[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

[Pharos]

I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English?  This would
probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English
Wikinews...

Thanks,
Pharos

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cristian Consonni
<kikkocristian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the coordinator of Wiki at Home in Wikimedia Italia.
> With this project we have already managed to interview a few
> notable[1] people. The questions are written collaboratively, opening
> a page on the italian Wikinews[2]. Then Wikimedia Italia takes contact
> with the potential interviewee and finds the reporter (usually a WMI
> member).
>
> I have also the recordings of an interview with Jimbo ... I have done
> it maaaany months ago, but I really can't find the time to transcribe
> it.
>
> I am really sorry about that and, in my opinion, this is a major
> problem with volunteer-driven interviews. Usually there are a lot of
> questions to ask and even if the interviewer make some (arbitrary)
> selection in my experience this results in long (> 1 h) interviews.
> We are used to report integrally what the interviewees have said
> (besides some style corrections to make the text readable), unlike
> newspapers we don't have problems of space and we think the best thing
> to do is to report things exactly as they have been said.
> So the main effort is the transcription and the editing of the
> interviews and for 1h/2h interviews this can take weeks.
>
> I really don't know if there is a solution for this.
>
> Cristian
> CristianCantoro
> Wikimedia Italia
>
> [1] i.e. people having an article about them on (at least the Italian
> version of) Wikipedia.
> [2] for Mr. Eco, the page was this
> http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco
>
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