[Wikinews-l] Todo list/Wikinews Future Talk 3

Sun Aug 14 00:52:38 UTC 2005

Hello,
I think a third future talk is a great idea. I do however have a few 
issues with this proposal.

The date appears to be randomly chosen. IRC and any other real time 
methods will exclude people based upon timezones and available times. 
All of the other future talks times have been chosen by creating a page 
with a list of possible times, and having people indicate what 
dates/times they are available. The date/time with the most people 
available is then used. If they are unable to make the listed times, 
they are encouraged to list what times they would be able to make.

My second issue with this is the inclusion of the WNN proposal in the 
items to discus. This proposal has been discussed many times, and the 
results are always the same, people arguing with nothing accomplished. 
The WNN proposal if it is to survive, needs either to be ignored until 
the project can support it, or for the previous discussions to be acted 
upon.

My third issue with it is Nick moderating it, no past future talk has 
been moderated, and I do not think it should be especially by some one 
with such strong opinions on many of the topics

Craig Spurrier

Nicholas Gerda wrote:

>Eloquence, Ed Brown and I came up with a starter list for work that we
>feel should be accomplished on Wikinews.  This list follows and is
>freely available for editing at
>http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Todo_list .
>
>1. Resolve Portal namespace and Portal design issues (encourage local
>reporting).
>2. Resolve Google News indexing issues (Stable version flagging).
>3. Revise decision-making process (Voting policy).
>4. Main Page (what belongs, what doesn't belong).
>5. Work on modifying WNN proposal to appease community's requests.
>6. Encourage more Investigative reporting.
>7. User-friendliness (we currently have high standards, possible "This
>just in" raw news box).
>8. Expand editor base (Contact college journalism departments, etc.).
>
>These will be the set topics for Wikinews Future Talk 3, which I plan
>on moderating on Saturday, August 20, at 21:00 UTC.
>
>Nick
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