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As detailed as possible: I arrived at the Plaza Francia by coincidence at around 15:00 local time and discovered the event. Interested, took some pictures (those uploaded to Commons) and looked for the organizer of the event to gather enoguh information for a Wikinews article. Some minutes later, I managed to establish contact with Carlos García, a mid-aged man who kindly accepted to answer a couple of questions.
After he accepted, I got my phone and started writing key information about our conversation. Apart from the information shown in the article, Mr. Gacría revealed to me the locations of the previous events (all in Caracas), the dates when they were held, and some attendance numbers. We sit along the festival (close to their main stand, which is shown on this picture) and talked for some twenty minutes (or until 15:58 LT, according to my phone):
Me: Who organizes the event?
Garcia: The Expo Gastronomía organization.
Me: When the first edition was held?
García: The first edition was held on April 2011 and we had 8 exhibitors representing 8 countries. Then, we had an attendance at around 3,000 people.
Me: Whis are your estimated attendance for the fifth edition?
García: Well, back then when we did the event at the [prior venue I can't remember], we had a more effective control of the attendance, given that the place was a bit smaller, and we had all access areas under control. Notwithstanding, we expect an attendance of around 10,000 to 13,000 people, measuring our event against prior ones by other organizations, such as the book festival held some months ago.
Me: How many countries are covered this time?
García: Eight. We have nine exhibitors though, but two of them are dedicated to Italy: One of them for pizza.
Me: I have seen that some of the stands don't dedicate to food. Did you develop a wider scope this time? How are the stands organized?
García: Well, this year, we have four categories: Typical foods, which are covered at the eight stands of the specific countries. They showcase and sell food typical from those countries. Then we have the handicraft stands. The third group are gastronomy stands; they have coocking books and recipes, as well as kitchen products and metalwork. Finally, we have a new category, that is hotel businesses and tourism; on this one, we have only three exhibitors this time.
Me: Who are the sponsors of the event?
García: Well, we have Coca-Cola, La Granja, Oroweat, G200 Eventos, Gygm Group, and the Office of Chacao's Mayor.
Me: Any big or recognized company that registered as exhibitor?
García: Well, we have Cosecha San José as one of the exhibitors, though they are betting to be sponsors on the sixth edition.
Me: This is the fifth edition, held in 2013. The first was on April 2011, which means that you have more than one event pear year, right?
García: Indeed. We usually have two per year.
Me: When the next event will be held?
García: We are planning to have the eixth edition on November 2013, maybe December.
Me: So it's definitely coming this year
García: Yes, definitely.
Me: Which are the key people behind this event, apart from you?
García: Well, there's me, and my partner, Yolanda Martins.
Me: Thanks for your time, Carlos. It was a pleasure.
García: The pleasure was mine. Thanks for coming.
Mostly everything I asked is on the report. I did precise questions that derived on precise answers. I avoided making more substantial questions due to the nature of mr. García's limited time to me, even when he showed willingness to provide information. Additionally, García offered me the Expo's twitter account, @expogastronomia, to let him know when I posted the news (so that he could retweet, which he did). — ΛΧΣ2102:01, 12 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
A few crucial details I didn't find in the reporter's notes. These were the sort of details that can easily be gotten wrong; reviewers of original reporting are especially alert for documentation problems with details of that sort.
I didn't see the dates of the event in the notes. I did eventually find these dates buried far back in the twitter feed. It's really easy to just trip up on a detail like that — you're there, obviously you know the dates, and then you type it wrong in the article, or something like that.
Of the three countries that had been named in the article, afaics only one of them is mentioned in the notes. This too would be really easy to trip up on, so I consulted the event's web site. Which indicated that neither Tunisia nor Germany was represented. Btw, just to show how easy it is to trip up on things like this: the event web site lists only seven countries on its front page — but does list eight countries on a subpage.
The more solid and detailed the documentation, the better. Ideal for an in-person interview is an audio recording, backed up with a transcript of the interview in the language(s) it was conducted in (and human translation of the transcript into English — yes it's a great deal of work; we've done it successfully for a couple of mixed-Spanish-and-English interviews, and the results were worth the effort).
The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.
A few crucial details I didn't find in the reporter's notes. These were the sort of details that can easily be gotten wrong; reviewers of original reporting are especially alert for documentation problems with details of that sort.
I didn't see the dates of the event in the notes. I did eventually find these dates buried far back in the twitter feed. It's really easy to just trip up on a detail like that — you're there, obviously you know the dates, and then you type it wrong in the article, or something like that.
Of the three countries that had been named in the article, afaics only one of them is mentioned in the notes. This too would be really easy to trip up on, so I consulted the event's web site. Which indicated that neither Tunisia nor Germany was represented. Btw, just to show how easy it is to trip up on things like this: the event web site lists only seven countries on its front page — but does list eight countries on a subpage.
The more solid and detailed the documentation, the better. Ideal for an in-person interview is an audio recording, backed up with a transcript of the interview in the language(s) it was conducted in (and human translation of the transcript into English — yes it's a great deal of work; we've done it successfully for a couple of mixed-Spanish-and-English interviews, and the results were worth the effort).
The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.
