On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sage Ross<ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the great frustrations of Wikinews for me is that it doesn't > have a system for identifying and pointing users toward opportunities > to get out into the offline world and do original reporting. A > fine-grained cross-project opt-in geonotice system could be a > solution. > > Here's how I imagine it working: there is a new opt-in geonotice (in > addition to the current one that reaches everyone in the specified > geography). For the opt-in geonotice (which would hopefully be able > to reach across projects, since many causal Wikinewsies visit that > site only rarely) any trusted user could add new items to let nearby > people know about reporting or photography opportunities. For these > opt-in notices, we would not need to lock down the ability to add > items like we do for the current geonotice system (it's a fully > protected page), since people who opt-in will expect a bit a noise.
I think this would be awesome to try out! Geonotices have proved to be wonderful for helping out with local meetups; I can even imagine having two filters, opt-into notifications for local events and opt-into notifications for wikinews stuff. Both pages to set the notifications could be unprotected, and we could just see how it went. That is all :) phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
