Wikinews talk:Upcoming events

Right place?

Would the Foundation allow us to restart this at wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Upcoming events? Note the no language code in front. That would be really good for if someone in Ohio finds something in France, or someone in Rio finding something in Sydney. -- Zanimum 15:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

wikinews.org is a forwarder to en.wikinews.org - I also don't fully understand your reasoning... --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 15:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, technically wikinews.org shouldn't redirect to en, it should be a multilingual portal. But beyond a multilingual portal, we could set up an entire (hidden) wiki, that would be accessible by direct link from any of the Wikinewses.

The reason I suggest this, if we have an event taking place in Paris, and we add it to our English Wikinews Upcoming Events list, that's fine and dandy. But only English speaking Wikinewsies from France are going to see the listing. The better place to put it would be the French Wikinews, on an equivalent of the "Upcoming events" page. So the suggest would sit dormant, likely not be covered.

But if we had one portal for everyone, then everyone would just have one place to go. I dunno. -- Zanimum 17:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Note that there have also been several fruitless efforts at something similar on Meta, e.g. m:Press Corps and m:Scheduled attendance for Wikinews or Commons. This seems a long-standing problem that needs a definitive solution. Problem with meta is that people engaged in local projects don't visit it. Another thing is that organising human resources in a way as to assign people to different tasks has been met with comments of "un-wikiness" in the past, completely idiotically imho.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:12, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, it wasn't to assign people to various things, it was to increase their potential for awareness to particular things. -- Zanimum 13:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

That might make more sense: there are too few editors here to cover France, Rio and Sydney.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Claimed/unclaimed events?

Once events are claimed, can we move them to a separate section, or better yet, separate page? Otherwise, I feel a little weird posting about relatively trivial things on the North American page. -- Zanimum 14:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand the problem... please elaborate.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, suppose 50 people post 60 things to this page. Suddenly, the neat and tidy template that's been created is doesn't do too much good. You have to sort through 3 (North America, Oceania) to 30 (Europe, Africa) countries to find stuff near you, and then when you do find things near you, they're passed due, because they got hidden in-between everything else. -- Zanimum 18:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes maybe a claimed / unclaimed section would be nice. Or, maybe in the future, a map of where the events are and where us Wikinewsies are... --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 08:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I wonder.......

....if we should maybe revive this??--Bddpaux (talk) 00:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

I’d say yes but only if it can be managed properly. I’ve only tagged it as historical because the last edit here seems to have been ten years ago. --Green Giant (talk) 01:18, 26 July 2021 (UTC)