Brian wrote:
I think a good idea for easily getting good questions
(since the
current questions are pretty generic), as well as increasing the
positive interest in Wikinews (since people like the EFF) is to make a
post on Slashdot in the style of "ask your questions on Slashdot, and
a selection of the highest moderated quesitons will be picked to
specifically ask Danny O'Brien". Then you can pick out some good
questions, ask him, and make another Slashdot post once the entire
interview has been written up.
I'm going to try to get a story on Slashdot. I would suggest that
someone protect
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006…
(although I won't link to it). As for the IRC interview, I hope it is
being set up so that the interviewee can be separated from the rest of
the people. He should probably be in his own channel, which has
restricted access.
brian0918
Actually, we want exactly the opposite.
The point of the interview is to be available for many people to be
involved in creating the questions, and to write their own articles
about what happened during the interview; what the answers mean. For
this reason we want the interviewee to be in the same channel as
everyone else. That doesn't mean the channel will be open for everyone
to shout questions: we will probably set the channel to moderated, and
only allow the interviewee and the interviewer to be voiced.
The same is true of research and questions page. We really do want
people to be actively editing this page, but we may protect it for the
hour or so of the actual interview, so questions are not being altered
at the time they are being asked.
Feel free to suggest this to Slashdot; obviously questions could be
copied from the Slashdot comments to the research and questions page,
but we don't want to use Slashdot as the working/editing space since
they haven't agreed to hosting that.
Amgine