On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Schwen<[email protected]> wrote: >> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it. > The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a > bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any > case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and > have a bot match articles with missing images to users in the area. It > also would make "requests for better images" feasible if they would > get pushed to the user, instead of them having to check for potential > work. > Why would you even call this "bugging" the users? People sign up for a > reason, and that is to contribute, not to be left alone. >
Semantic MediaWiki has the ability to do geocode searches within a radius of an area. That search then has an RSS feed the user can subscribe to. I'm not proposing wikinews use SMW; however, a feature like this seems more appropriate than pushing things to users. Don't people sign up to work on stuff they feel like working on? I could see how pushing everything within a radius of them could get a little annoying. V/r, Ryan Lane _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
