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Walter Vermeir | 4 Jul 2006 16:10
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News about Wikinews

Hi,

About some 8 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a
newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like
"Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so.

So I bring the news for the Wikimedia family like Wikinews is bringing
news to the world.

I am writing this fist of all to ask for your cooperation with this
newsletter. To be able to report news first the news must be known.
"The Water cooler" is one of the pages I look for to find news about
Wikinews. But it can be that I do not notice something. Or, more
likely, it is not there to find. And especially if it is going on
other Wikinews language editions I will not find out about it.

So I request that if there is news about your project, especially for
the non-English editions, that you would report the news to me, to
Wikizine. Let the  readers of Wikizine know there is more then
Wikipedia.

A way to make it more likely that someone will think about Wikizine is
to put a banner on your userpage or even better on a public page like
the "Water Cooler", also for the non-English Wikinews versions.;
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners

On the other side I try to get the news downhill to as most of the
projects and especially languages as possible.  Because of piratical
reasons Wikizine can only be in English. But it would be fantastic if
people would be willing to translate the news and share it with there
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Anthere | 4 Jul 2006 23:43
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Re: News about Wikinews

Hello

Hardly a new. But my contribution to the wikinews news
:-)

I will do a presentation of wikinews in 2 days. 
Title is "Wikinews, le libre au service de
l'actualité".

I actually found it tough to prepare because I am not
a wikinewsie myself and had troubles finding much
recent information. A year ago, there was a
significant amount of information, such as the State
of the Wiki, and other similar good pages. I could not
really find equivalent with recent happenings.

Still, I wanted to give a special time to a project
not being wikipedia. 
I already did the same for Wikiversity once ;-)

Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due to lack
of information avail on the site, and maybe lack of
reference presentations. 

Ant

--- Walter Vermeir <walter <at> wikipedia.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>
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Erik Moeller | 5 Jul 2006 00:16
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Re: News about Wikinews

On 7/4/06, Anthere <anthere9 <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due to lack
> of information avail on the site, and maybe lack of
> reference presentations.

My presentation from Korea is still available here:
http://image.ohmynews.com/down/etc/1/todd_234334_1%5B1%5D.pdf

I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on the web during my
presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard information.

I really should do another SOTW, but they keep getting longer and
longer. :-) I spent a whole weekend on the last one. To find some of
the more interesting content, I suggest browsing
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category%3AOriginal_reporting
and its various translations. For some recent statistics, see
Wikistats, particularly the "New Articles Per Day":
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm

German and English are still the main sites that produce a steady flow
of articles and original reporting. Polish and Italian also seem to be
doing OK. All the others still seem to lack critical community mass.

On the English edition, audio and print versions are seeing quite
regular updates. The German version is experimenting with short
reports in addition to full length stories, which seem to be working
fine. The "Interview of the Month" has worked well for some time:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month
and en: has seen a fairly high number of detailed interviews recently
(some of them done by myself).
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Anthere | 8 Jul 2006 03:47
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Re: News about Wikinews

Thanks Erik

I had a look at it and inspired myself from some of
your comments below. 
It went well overall, though the time was too short
:-(
I have not look at Gobby yet...

Ant

--- Erik Moeller <eloquence <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/4/06, Anthere <anthere9 <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, just to mention that's pretty tough due to
> lack
> > of information avail on the site, and maybe lack
> of
> > reference presentations.
> 
> My presentation from Korea is still available here:
>
http://image.ohmynews.com/down/etc/1/todd_234334_1%5B1%5D.pdf
> 
> I tend to free-wheel a lot and just show stuff on
> the web during my
> presentations, so it doesn't include too much hard
> information.
> 
> I really should do another SOTW, but they keep
> getting longer and
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Aphaia | 14 Jul 2006 13:17
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News of Wikinews; Japanese Wikinews goes to Year 2.

Hello,
Japanese Wikinews celebrated her first anniversary today on July 14.
Her sitenotice says "日本語版ウィキニュースは1周年を迎えました。"
(Japanese Wikinews comes
to her first anniversary)
# If you feel it as problematic as Qur'an, feel free to contact us.

According statistics, there is 1071 pages in main namespace, 501
registered users and 9 admins including 2 bureaucrats. In my
impression, all active contributors are registered and around 80
articles are submitted by month.

As pointed out recently, her community is still small and need to
further growth. An user Peka analyzed Erik Zachte's statistics and
found some interesting points.
- Among 500 registered user, only 3.2% of editors (= 4 people) did its
75% of edits in a year, additional 5% of editors (=6 people) made
11.8%. (aph: It would suggest her frequent editors are equal to the
group of active admins. ). On the contrary 52% of editors made one or
two edits. This group is the biggest in population and their edits
shared 1% of all edits in this year .
- In her early stage, till November, around 100 articles were
submitted by month. Since last November the average number of
submitted articles per month decreased to around 50-80 (avg. 64);
after then, no standing change has occurred and the number of articles
has been constantly growing.
- Among articles by country, articles concerning Japan are biggest in
number (679 art.). Articles on USA(86 art.) and China (PRC) (40 art.)
are next. By region, next to Japan alone (on Japanese Wikinews, Japan
is treated not as country but also region due to its gravity of
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Oldak Quill | 14 Jul 2006 14:21
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Re: News of Wikinews; Japanese Wikinews goes to Year 2.

Setting up Wikimedia Japan may be a good way to raise awareness about
this, and other, Wikimedia projects. It would be the first outside
Europe and may open up new avenues for publicity/fundraising in Japan.

Aside from that, goodluck and keep up the good work.

On 14/07/06, Aphaia <aphaia <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Japanese Wikinews celebrated her first anniversary today on July 14.
> Her sitenotice says "日本語版ウィキニュースは1周年を迎えました。"
(Japanese Wikinews comes
> to her first anniversary)
> # If you feel it as problematic as Qur'an, feel free to contact us.
>
> According statistics, there is 1071 pages in main namespace, 501
> registered users and 9 admins including 2 bureaucrats. In my
> impression, all active contributors are registered and around 80
> articles are submitted by month.
>
> As pointed out recently, her community is still small and need to
> further growth. An user Peka analyzed Erik Zachte's statistics and
> found some interesting points.
> - Among 500 registered user, only 3.2% of editors (= 4 people) did its
> 75% of edits in a year, additional 5% of editors (=6 people) made
> 11.8%. (aph: It would suggest her frequent editors are equal to the
> group of active admins. ). On the contrary 52% of editors made one or
> two edits. This group is the biggest in population and their edits
> shared 1% of all edits in this year .
> - In her early stage, till November, around 100 articles were
> submitted by month. Since last November the average number of
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Erik Moeller | 28 Jul 2006 02:14
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Wikinews events at Wikimania

There will at least be two relevant events for Wikinewsies at or
around Wikimania:

* An open discussion about Wikinews and wikis in journalism on
Saturday, 4:00-5:30 PM:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikis_and_the_news
* A whole mini-conference about citizen journalism on Monday:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Journalism

If you plan to attend, please add yourself to the list (registration
is mandatory for the citizen journalism conference). If you can't
attend, please edit

http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikis_and_the_news

and add topics that you think the Wikinewsies who will be present
should discuss. If possible, we will also try to assign one or
multiple people for reporting the discussion to #wikinews on
irc.freenode.net, and to take questions and comments from the channel.

I hope to see you there,

Erik
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