Re: [Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)

2009-07-31 Thread Sage Ross
The Strategic Planning wiki is a good place to discuss this idea and how it changed and/or implemented: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals/Geonotice_improvements http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals/Geonotice_improvements -Sage On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Sage

Re: [Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)

2009-07-31 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sage Rossragesoss+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

[Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)

2009-07-29 Thread Sage Ross
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