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Wikinews:Great ideas
From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
Wikinewsies are constantly coming up with great ideas to improve the site, resolve problems, and suggestions for how things can and/or could be done in the Water cooler. Some of the best of these are collected here, to give people an idea of projects which are available to help out on, or ideas they can pick up and run with on their own.
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Camera phones are just the first step! DV is leading a project to develop the ability to create video news casts of Wikinews stories. For more information, check out the project page!
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AudioWikinews
Mrmiscellanious, Amgine, and NGerda have been doing sporadic hosting of the show. The longest broadcasting streak was one week, by NGerda. Hopefully, the broadcasts will become more regular, as it takes hours do record a single segment.
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Let's see what IlyaHaykinson's bot coding skills could do here. NGerda 23:57, 13 May 2005 Keep in mind SEC rules delaying quotes by 20 minutes. --67.82.177.37 30 June 2005 04:13
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The project would like to create a feed for lottery numbers which would automatically update the Wikinews site with the latest public lottery numbers:
- I would be happy to code a Lottery Bot. However, someone else would need to find a reliable source for this data. Remember that it should be somewhat centralized, computer-readable , and international. -- IlyaHaykinson 22:27, 23 Mar 2005
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Wikinews Status
Articles:2,780s:103,000Users:3,460
I've created the template, but I need IlyaHaykinson to create a bot that will go to the statistics page and update the stats every 30 seconds or less for the infobox. NGerda 20:12, May 24, 2005
- I belive the stats update themselves automatically.--Ryan524 20:36, 24 May 2005
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The WikiNews Print ion is an attempt at creating a daily print ion. It is designed to help bring new users in, by allowing people to print and distribute copies to those that would never otherwise hear about WikiNews.
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Wikinews Newsrooms could be Wikinews offices located around the country, with space donated by business owners. It would be a community newsroom where Wikinewsies can collaborate on articles, assist one another in finding media for articles, and print and distribute Wikinews Print ions to their communities. Local offices could also be in charge of recording Audio Wikinews and Video Wikinews programs. At first, computers could be available at a "bring you own" policy, but as donations raise, we eventually might be able to buy computers. The goal of this project is to raise community awareness of Wikinews, create a physical meeting place for Wikinewsies, and to further increase the quality of Wikinews articles.
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Audio Wikinews has been producing short 5-minute audio files you can listen to, and there are not any currently any plans for a 24-hour news feed. WNN is just like any other news channel on TV, exept we cover world wide news. Most news channels are country/region specific and don't talk much about anything outside of that area, and also it will be broadcasted via Shoutcast, rather than recieved on TV. Also we show very little commercials, and most commercials are for Wikimedia or Wikimedia projects anyway. WNN will not be a 24/7 station, at least not right away. If you have any ideas for a show you can do, about an hour time block, you schedule in the commercials when you want, send an email to emailWNN@gmail.com if you're interested in advertising to help out WNN, or want to do a show on WNN.
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RSS story development workflow
Automated RSS feeds to inform wikinews-developers of submitted stories, prepared stories, developing stories, etc. That is, pre-publication stage news feeds, to accelerate workflow. i've implemented a test of this at Wikinews:Proposed Workspace, and elaborated on it further at Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#RSS_feeds_for_development_process. Kevin Baastalk 01:24, 30 May 2005
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