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Anthere,

I am doing a news wire for the last 3 years. I know the real pain
behind that. We need a full desk to do news. Not like encyclopedia. If
one person who is not taking the responsibility will destroy the
aunthenticity of wikinews. If the people is ready then i am ready to
contribute well with my desk.


Let us think from the top ......

george


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:11:45 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >As news considered let it be 24X7 always. So need more than 5 people
> >in the team i think
>
> >And if you all prefer mark one specific domains, as they have
> >expertise, like politics, business, technology etc etc..
>
> >So more than a number the team needs good journalists rather than just
> >information providers..
>
> >--
> >Regards
> >Ginu George
> >Journalist and Media Researcher
> >Dubai, United Arab Emirates
>
> I strongly agree with you Ginu.
>
> There is a huge difference with the encyclopedia.
> With wikipedia, we do not need all expertises at the same time, one area can be greatly improved for a couple of months, while another goes unnoticed for months.
>
> Wikinews on the other hand, requires much more that people makes team, if only to try to cover a couple of areas.
> Even if there are few editors and cannot cover all news, a team of 4-5 in scientific covering could make it very successful in a small areas.
>
> This is doubly interesting in Wikinews as news are interesting only for a couple of days, not weeks, months or years as in the encyclopedia.
>
> As long as a wikinews will be unable to cover all news topics, I think it should focus on providing good news in *one* area and get famous thanks to it.
>
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Ginu George
Journalist and Media Researcher
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>Anthere,

>I am doing a news wire for the last 3 years.

I am glad to know we have journalists among us, they will help avoid the worse directions.

>I know the real pain
>behind that. We need a full desk to do news. Not like encyclopedia.

Agreed
I can perfectly well see the absolutely amazing force which could be behind a wikinews.
With a full desk, a united team, the impact of a wikinews will be huge.

But this could happen right now in english, possibly german. Possibly another language.
But it just do not make sense that we have a wikinews site with only 2 editors.
Even though they really try their best, they just can't manage.
And as Britty mentionned, it is important that each wikinews has a couple of people interested in building the committee, not taking care of news, just drafting policies, strengthening the project. Unfortunately, not every one likes doing this.
In the end, building a wikinews on 5 people... just makes little sense to me.


>If one person who is not taking the responsibility will destroy the
>aunthenticity of wikinews. If the people is ready then i am ready to
>contribute well with my desk.

I would be glad that you do so in arab.
But this community is probably not ready at all.

>Let us think from the top ......

What do you mean here George ?

>george

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hi, am not well versed in arabic, really am Indian, so dont expect any
arabic version from me.

First of all we have to make the english edition running well,
meantime think about the languiage versions. So if people will
translate the english to german and vice versa thats more good and
regional news will become global.

As a global village make all the news for the global community. So i
prefer english first and i will think other languages...


My Specialisation is Media, Health and Business.....And Global Cinema
(Parallel Cinema)


Regards

George



On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:42:25 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Anthere,
>
> >I am doing a news wire for the last 3 years.
>
> I am glad to know we have journalists among us, they will help avoid the worse directions.
>
> >I know the real pain
> >behind that. We need a full desk to do news. Not like encyclopedia.
>
> Agreed
> I can perfectly well see the absolutely amazing force which could be behind a wikinews.
> With a full desk, a united team, the impact of a wikinews will be huge.
>
> But this could happen right now in english, possibly german. Possibly another language.
> But it just do not make sense that we have a wikinews site with only 2 editors.
> Even though they really try their best, they just can't manage.
> And as Britty mentionned, it is important that each wikinews has a couple of people interested in building the committee, not taking care of news, just drafting policies, strengthening the project. Unfortunately, not every one likes doing this.
> In the end, building a wikinews on 5 people... just makes little sense to me.
>
> >If one person who is not taking the responsibility will destroy the
> >aunthenticity of wikinews. If the people is ready then i am ready to
> >contribute well with my desk.
>
> I would be glad that you do so in arab.
> But this community is probably not ready at all.
>
> >Let us think from the top ......
>
> What do you mean here George ?
>
> >george
>
> Ant
>
>
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Ginu George
Journalist and Media Researcher
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

>>>Let us think from the top ......

>> What do you mean here George ?

>hi, am not well versed in arabic, really am Indian, so dont expect any
>arabic version from me.

Oh well...

>First of all we have to make the english edition running well,
>meantime think about the languiage versions. So if people will
>translate the english to german and vice versa thats more good and
>regional news will become global.

>As a global village make all the news for the global community. So i
>prefer english first and i will think other languages...

I agree we should focus on having german and english run well before focusing on other languages.
I disagree with considering these two languages the "top" while others are the "bottom".

>My Specialisation is Media, Health and Business.....And Global Cinema
>(Parallel Cinema)

quite eclectic... :-)

>Regards

>George



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The news we can integrate via a single platform. So any one from any
location can submit a news. But that wil go only through the
moderators. So once two people submit one news automatically the
second will go down.

Here we can create users, trusted journalists, moderators and admins.
So What we going to do


Answering the rest....

First of all the editors have to think about that. Thats what i mean by top

I dint mean english and german is top

There is nothing elctric in my statement!!


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:04:49 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>Let us think from the top ......
>
> >> What do you mean here George ?
>
> >hi, am not well versed in arabic, really am Indian, so dont expect any
> >arabic version from me.
>
> Oh well...
>
> >First of all we have to make the english edition running well,
> >meantime think about the languiage versions. So if people will
> >translate the english to german and vice versa thats more good and
> >regional news will become global.
>
> >As a global village make all the news for the global community. So i
> >prefer english first and i will think other languages...
>
> I agree we should focus on having german and english run well before focusing on other languages.
> I disagree with considering these two languages the "top" while others are the "bottom".
>
> >My Specialisation is Media, Health and Business.....And Global Cinema
> >(Parallel Cinema)
>
> quite eclectic... :-)
>
> >Regards
>
> >George
>
>
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Ginu George
Journalist and Media Researcher
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

>The news we can integrate via a single platform. So any one from any
>location can submit a news. But that wil go only through the
>moderators. So once two people submit one news automatically the
>second will go down.

>Here we can create users, trusted journalists, moderators and admins.
>So What we going to do

>Answering the rest....

>First of all the editors have to think about that. Thats what i mean by top

I think it is high time I go back to the english wikinews to look at what is going on...
I was not aware there was (or planning to be ?) different status such as admin and moderators.

Hmmm, oh well.

>I dint mean english and german is top

>There is nothing elctric in my statement!!

Electric ? :-))))



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