[Wikinews-l] News about Wikinews

Sat Jul 8 01:47:55 UTC 2006

Thanks Erik

I had a look at it and inspired myself from some of
your comments below. 
It went well overall, though the time was too short
:-(
I have not look at Gobby yet...

Ant

--- Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/4/06, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due to
> lack
> > of information avail on the site, and maybe lack
> of
> > reference presentations.
> 
> My presentation from Korea is still available here:
>
http://image.ohmynews.com/down/etc/1/todd_234334_1%5B1%5D.pdf
> 
> I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on
> the web during my
> presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard
> information.
> 
> I really should do another SOTW, but they keep
> getting longer and
> longer. :-) I spent a whole weekend on the last one.
> To find some of
> the more interesting content, I suggest browsing
>
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category%3AOriginal_reporting
> and its various translations. For some recent
> statistics, see
> Wikistats, particularly the "New Articles Per Day":
>
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm
> 
> German and English are still the main sites that
> produce a steady flow
> of articles and original reporting. Polish and
> Italian also seem to be
> doing OK. All the others still seem to lack critical
> community mass.
> 
> On the English edition, audio and print versions are
> seeing quite
> regular updates. The German version is experimenting
> with short
> reports in addition to full length stories, which
> seem to be working
> fine. The "Interview of the Month" has worked well
> for some time:
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month
> and en: has seen a fairly high number of detailed
> interviews recently
> (some of them done by myself).
> 
> To me, the more interesting challenges for the
> future include:
> - category-based RSS support for all Wikinews
> editions
> - redesigning the Main Page(s) to better highlight
> exclusive and unique content
> - experimenting with collaborative editing tools
> like Gobby (
> http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi )
> - building partnerships with "citizen radio"
> projects across the
> world, whose interests naturally overlap ours
> - also, working with journalism faculties at
> universities to produce content
> 
> Good luck with your presentation!
> 
> Erik
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