[Wikinews-l] Wikinews on the night before the night before Christmas

Wikinews WikiParty! [No! This does not mean I wear my kilt Cary.] This will be the first time ever that Jimmy Wales has done WikiVoices (previously: Not the Wikipedia Weekly), *and* it's on Wikinews. George Watson (Dendodge) has said he should be able to do this too. Just in case not, I'd welcome a standby or two; you *need* Skype, and a headset or other good microphone. Considering French Wikinews is working towards getting listed in GNews, it would be really nice to have someone from there in - even if not for the full session. That's in addition to Dendodge. One of Wikinews' strengths is the international nature; moving to two of the top Western languages being in GNews is good news. An as-yet unconfirmed attendee is Rory Cellan-Jones, one of the semi-geeky, and semi-independent, journalists that works with/for the BBC. So, yes, I have high hopes of this getting Wikinews some publicity. Set diverse alarms for making sure you're in IRC, tracking recent changes, and anything else like that during the recording and few hours after. I'll try and get Durova to give fair warning of the actual Skypecast going up on Wikipedia - there will likely be another spike then. Regrettably, ShakataGaNai will have to earn his 1% when this is happening; I considered a Prozac prescription. But, he'd just smile more while blowing people off the Internet for trolling and POV-pushing. And if you do have Skype, there will be a text chat session too, everyone writing on Wikinews who can be involved in that, should. -------- Forwarded Message -------- -- Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org>|http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects. * Problems replying? Forward bounces to brianmc(a)skynet.be to raise with Godaddy Hosting.