I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English? This would probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English Wikinews...
Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia. > With this project we have already managed to interview a few > notable[1] people. The questions are written collaboratively, opening > a page on the italian Wikinews[2]. Then Wikimedia Italia takes contact > with the potential interviewee and finds the reporter (usually a WMI > member). > > I have also the recordings of an interview with Jimbo ... I have done > it maaaany months ago, but I really can't find the time to transcribe > it. > > I am really sorry about that and, in my opinion, this is a major > problem with volunteer-driven interviews. Usually there are a lot of > questions to ask and even if the interviewer make some (arbitrary) > selection in my experience this results in long (> 1 h) interviews. > We are used to report integrally what the interviewees have said > (besides some style corrections to make the text readable), unlike > newspapers we don't have problems of space and we think the best thing > to do is to report things exactly as they have been said. > So the main effort is the transcription and the editing of the > interviews and for 1h/2h interviews this can take weeks. > > I really don't know if there is a solution for this. > > Cristian > CristianCantoro > Wikimedia Italia > > [1] i.e. people having an article about them on (at least the Italian > version of) Wikipedia. > [2] for Mr. Eco, the page was this > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
