Also, I was reading the results of the usability survey for wikipedia, and i think lots of the problems discussed there with the help information being too much information all at once without getting the important information across, rings true here as well.
-bawolff On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:55 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about that thread, and well it doesn't really have > a lot of practical advice at first glance, here's some thoughts I came > up with (these thoughts may be rough arround the edges/unsuitable, > this is just off the top of my head) > > *Synthesis vs OR - should we be doing more to highlight our original > reporting. Currently we highlight OR by a list on the sidebar of the > main page, and a little box on the article. Should we do more? In the > early days of wikinews, We at one point wrote '''Original Reporting''' > in italics beside any OR article name in the big list of articles on > the Main Page. perhaps we should revisit that idea. (cf example: > [[Wikinews:2005/June/18]]) > > *Someone on the foundation-l thread was comparing a news website to a > newspaper, and talked about one of the main benifits of a news paper > is you can see lots of different articles all at once. Perhaps one > radical main page design would be instead of a list of articles + a > couple leads, the entire main page is leads that change on each page > load to different articles or something. > > thoughts? > > > -bawolff > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Brian McNeil > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What can Wikinews take from this and work on? >> >> >> >> A repeated concern is that we’re always ‘behind the times’ when we do >> synthesis reports. There’s a degree of truth to that, but taking material >> from multiple mainstream reports should make our coverage more >> comprehensive, if albeit a little later. >> >> >> >> Second, is how can we work with others? Blogs, Indymedia, and so on all >> generally have a bias and/or axe to grind. This runs counter to NPOV. >> >> >> >> Third, original reporting. Considering the size of the contributor base I >> think we do pretty well on this. Are there ways we can attract more people >> to do investigative work? Should we be organising things to have an online >> ‘Wikinews Rolodex’ for accredited reporters? >> >> >> >> Can’t think of anything else from this or the discussion on foundation-l – >> was surprised that was so reasonable and not “damn Wikinews! We can do news >> in Wikipedia!”. >> >> >> >> >> >> Brian. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> [email protected] >> Sent: 11 May 2009 23:18 >> To: Wikinews mailing list >> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websites >> >> >> >> Ragesoss, who has written Wikinews OR, has some thoughts about Wikinews on >> his blog. >> >> There is also a live thread about Wikinews on foundation-l. >> >> --SVTCobra >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Fred Bauder >> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:24 pm >> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websites >> To: Wikinews mailing list >> >>> We'll pay what something is worth, to us. Murdock controls the Wall >>> Street Journal and The Times, of London. They are both pretty >>> good. I >>> paid $20 a year for full access to The New York Times. That is >>> what I can >>> imagine paying for a high quality on-line publication. This is >>> not a >>> solution for the average paper in trouble, such as The Rocky Mountain >>> Journal. They may not be worth much to anyone. >>> >>> Fred Bauder >>> >>> > Good luck to them - somehow i can't imagine most people paying >>> for it. >>> > >>> > -bawolff >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jon Davis >>> wrote: >>> >> Well it would bring new meaning to 'free' in our tag line >>> "The free >>> >> news >>> >> source you can write!" >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 16:53, wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> If this idea spreads it could fundamentally change the way >>> we create >>> >>> most >>> >>> of our articles ... >>> >>> >>> >>> Guardian article: >>> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/07/rupert-murdoch- >>> charging-websites >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Wikinews-l mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Jon >>> >> [[User:ShakataGaNai]] >>> >> http://snowulf.com/ - Blog >>> >> http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures >>> >> This has been a test of the emergency sig system. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Wikinews-l mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikinews-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikinews-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikinews-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
