Comments on: Community contributions http://www.newsless.org/2008/10/community-contributions/ Time to stop breaking the news, and start fixing it.* Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:20:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Why we’re not creating a wiki at Newsless.org http://www.newsless.org/2008/10/community-contributions/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Why we’re not creating a wiki at Newsless.org Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:28:50 +0000 http://www.newsless.org/?p=158#comment-597 [...] the News.” I’ve spent many posts chronicling the wonders of Wikipedia. Yet, as I’ve mentioned, the news site I’m creating to illustrate the arguments I’ve been advancing here will [...] [...] the News.” I’ve spent many posts chronicling the wonders of Wikipedia. Yet, as I’ve mentioned, the news site I’m creating to illustrate the arguments I’ve been advancing here will [...]

]]> By: Matt http://www.newsless.org/2008/10/community-contributions/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Matt Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:44:10 +0000 http://www.newsless.org/?p=158#comment-149 My prototype will probably be layered much as you set it out here, although as I mentioned, only that talk-page layer will likely be open for public editing. I also have some questions about what the home page should be that might be fodder for a future post. And I think you're right that "the news" is ideally a change log, but will probably be something else until our content management systems catch up to these ideas. So we agree on a lot. My prototype will probably be layered much as you set it out here, although as I mentioned, only that talk-page layer will likely be open for public editing. I also have some questions about what the home page should be that might be fodder for a future post. And I think you’re right that “the news” is ideally a change log, but will probably be something else until our content management systems catch up to these ideas.

So we agree on a lot.

]]> By: Newsmaven http://www.newsless.org/2008/10/community-contributions/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Newsmaven Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:02:37 +0000 http://www.newsless.org/?p=158#comment-139 I've been envisioning several levels within a news site, each with a different purpose and different community editing attributes. At the top is the traditional front page presenting the major news items of the moment. Headlines or one-graf teasers here tie to reporter-written stories that summarize whatever the new development is, but don't go into background the way traditional newspaper stories do. Rather, they link to relevant wikipedia entries, which is layer two. These top layer stories are editable within the newsroom only, although they accept comments that may result in changes. Layer two is the wikipedia, to which the reporter adds whatever new facts are contained within the top layer story (or starts a new page for a completely new event). Any top layer story might affect multiple wikipedia pages. This section would be completely open to community editing just like Wikipedia proper. Finally, below this is the wiki-talk page on which anyone could comment on the process, as you've discussed previously. Ideally, front page news would simply be generated (as you've suggested) as the change log for wiki entries, but I think initially it's going to have to be a manual process to tie the top layers together. Enjoy the cake. I’ve been envisioning several levels within a news site, each with a different purpose and different community editing attributes.

At the top is the traditional front page presenting the major news items of the moment. Headlines or one-graf teasers here tie to reporter-written stories that summarize whatever the new development is, but don’t go into background the way traditional newspaper stories do. Rather, they link to relevant wikipedia entries, which is layer two. These top layer stories are editable within the newsroom only, although they accept comments that may result in changes.

Layer two is the wikipedia, to which the reporter adds whatever new facts are contained within the top layer story (or starts a new page for a completely new event). Any top layer story might affect multiple wikipedia pages. This section would be completely open to community editing just like Wikipedia proper.

Finally, below this is the wiki-talk page on which anyone could comment on the process, as you’ve discussed previously.

Ideally, front page news would simply be generated (as you’ve suggested) as the change log for wiki entries, but I think initially it’s going to have to be a manual process to tie the top layers together.

Enjoy the cake.

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