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Wikinews Chat/Invited bloggers

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Dear X,

In December 2004, the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the Wikipedia encyclopedia, launched the Wikinews project, a beta foray into citizen journalism. Anyone is invited to contribute articles to Wikinews, or to improve existing ones. Unlike stories on activist websites, Wikinews articles have to be written from a neutral point of view, and factual claims must be sourced. The English edition can be found at:

http://en.wikinews.org/

We are inviting notable bloggers to participate in an online chat on citizen journalism and the interaction between bloggers and the Wikinews project. There will be an introduction to the Wikinews project and an open discussion with lots of room for questions. We will also try to highlight ways in which bloggers can get content from Wikinews, as well as contribute content. The event will take place on Internet Relay Chat. You can find out more about IRC here:

http://www.mirc.co.uk/irc.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

The "Wikinews and Blogs" chat will take place on Saturday, February 5, 2005, 22:00 UTC on the #wikinews channel on irc.freenode.net. You can learn more about the event at

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chat

An IRC client has been set up to connect to the chat, and can be accessed at

http://homepage.mac.com/chrisw4all/launchIRC.html - Java http://googlish.com - CGI

We would be very pleased should you decide to participate in this event. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Y

Tentative Invitation list edit

Notes and thoughts and brainstorming.

vlogging, podcasting edit

blogging edit

high traffic us edit

media blogging edit

outside of North America/Europe edit

There are also a few in other sections. We should invite 20+ for balance

  • |not sent| Hoder (aka Hossein Derakhshan) [h o d e r - at- h o d e r -dot- c o m]
  • |already contacted| joichi ito
  • Isaac Mao

related projects edit

misc edit

traditional and crossover media edit

RSVP edit

  • Dave Pell - probably not
    Wld love to participate, but I am overseas and away from connectivity for the most part until Feb 8.


IOTM January 2006 edit

Hi! this is Amgine @ Wikinews.

Just thought you might have a citizen journalist interested in sitting in on our Interview of the month (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month) which will be taking place in IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews) tomorrow, 11 Jan. 2006, at 1500 UTC.

The interview is with Brazillian political blogger Ricardo Serran Lobo, who blogs at http://www.vizinhodojefferson.blogger.com.br/ There is research about the interviewee at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006_Questions and we hope to be able to come up with live questions as well. (The interview will be taking place in Portuguese, and will be moderated by reporters from the Portuguese Wikinews (http://pt.wikinews.org).

Hope to hear from you, even with this short notice.

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