[Wikinews-l] request/suggest: urgent modification to wikinews pagetemplate

Sat Apr 9 05:35:02 UTC 2005

I don't like the idea of crowding even more information at the top of the
screen.

Maybe at the bottom instead?

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> From: wikinews-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of shevek at bur.st
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:12 PM
> To: wikinews-l at Wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikinews-l] request/suggest: urgent modification to 
> wikinews pagetemplate
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just joined this list, sorry I don't know what 
> discussion there may have been, or any protocols I should observe.
> 
> I have an urgent request/suggestion. We need to point out 
> more clearly that content is user-written, and may change.
> 
> This is urgent to me personally because I have a source who 
> is skeptical of providing quotes because they may be edited 
> to misconstrue the position of the source.
> 
> This is valid, and will reduce our access to live sources.
> 
> And we have an ethical and usability issue to deal with. 
> Ethical, I will not even argue, I think it is obvious.
> 
> Users who do not understand the multi-user, realtime 
> contribution nature of the site may have trouble adjusting as 
> they find their work amended. Forewarned, their expectations 
> would be more in line with their experiences, and less problems arise.
> 
> And there are legal issues I suppose as well, if the case 
> occured that my potential source is afraid of. I notice that 
> even our disclaimers page is blank, but in reality it is not 
> going to be effective to have this info hidden away on the 
> disclaimer page (although I will try to find some time to put 
> some disclaimer).
> 
> So what I would ask is that we amend the line "From Wikinews, 
> the free news source (BETA)" which appears on every page to 
> something similar to
> 
> >From Wikinews, the free, user-written news source that
> [[Wikinews:Wikinews_needs_you%21|anyone can edit]] (BETA)
> <BR>Warning: content changes in realtime - refresh 
> [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] tracker to see 
> latest amendments
> 
> OK, that is a bit long, the first line is the important part.
> 
> Can someone please make a change like this asap, then perhaps 
> we can come up with better text after some discussion. I 
> would like to be able to assure my source that readers cannot 
> misconstrue our content as authoritative.
> 
> Simeon
> 
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