Wikinews:Open Door Day

Original idea

If I look at Protesters demonstrate at US Coast Guard Academy by User:Ragesoss, I think we could promote doing OR on Wikipedia, I don't know what would be the best way but maybe there are more people out there willing to cover the 1 event that happens next to them in a year. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

You know what the solution is? Wikimedia needs an open door day, or rather a week. With a banner on the Wikipedia sitenotice saying: "All projects are holding open door days, check it out", and a link to various cool activities on Wikinews, Commons, Wikiversity, Wiktionary... People could follow a little tutorial and get started, get the taste of the project. We could have public chatting with Erik Möller about Wikinews, 'Write an article with Jimbo', 'interview Florence Devouard for an exclusive Wikinews interview', or 'cover the event near you'. Commons could have photojournalism courses, Wikiversity writing classes... One week that all Wikimedians are invited to broaden their horizon.

Anyone agree? Anyone interested to write up a proposal about in on Meta and spread the word?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea. Wikipedia has huge visibility and something in the sitenotice there would help sister projects enormously. I'm not so sure how we'd go about proposing this, so I'd suggest starting that here and then transplanting it when we have more feedback. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

To do-list

• Write a proposal and post it on Meta
• Think of cool things people could do on Wikinews
• Post it on the mailinglist
• Spread the word (see below)
• Expand this to do-list
• ...

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• Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
• Sean Heron 20:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC). I´ve had a similiar idea (I was specifically thinking of the german wikinews then) earlier, and believe this could really give Wikinews a boost.
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