[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikinews & Bloggers: Open Chat on February 5

Fri Jan 28 03:45:56 UTC 2005

Erik, this is a great idea. Though I'm wondering if there's a way to
establish a dialogue that isn't necessarily real-time, but something
we can keep open and have a continuing conversation.

RSS is essential for Wikinews. For example, for a page like
[[en:Current_events_in_Hong_Kong_and_Macao]], it would be great to
have an RSS feed of the latest news headlines that blog sites can
incorporate. It would be great for a blog site I'm overseeing,
http://www.chattergarden.com.

Another question is how to address all the "Current events..." pages
in Wikipedia, and how they relate to what Wikinews is doing.

-Andrew

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:10:07 +0100, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Jimmy suggested that we should get the blogosphere more involved in the
> Wikinews project. Indeed, many bloggers do the kind of work that
> Wikinews requires: summarizing the news from a large number of sources.
> True, bloggers are often less than neutral, but their entries may serve
> as a useful basis for Wikinews articles, if we can convince them to put
> them under an open license. There is also the question of how to raise
> visibility of Wikinews within the world of blogs. RSS is essential here.
> We do have one useful RSS feed, namely the one of Special:Newpages, but
> few people are aware of it.
> 
> In order to communicate to bloggers what Wikinews is all about, and to
> get them excited about the project, we are holding an open IRC chat on
> February 5, 22:00 UTC, on #wikinews (irc.freenode.net). Please help in
> setting the agenda and working on the list of invitations to bloggers. I
> think it would be nice if we could personalize those.
> 
> The Meta page is on
> 
>     http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chat
> 
> which will also be used to organize the agenda for future project-wide
> chats. Please register yourself there if you intend to come.
> 
> All best,
> 
> Erik
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Andrew Lih
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