Wikitravel talk:News Expedition
ContentsInitial thoughts[edit]Based on a recent discussion on the Travellers' Pub, it seems that we could be doing a better job with the news on the Main Page. Personally, I've noticed the following things:
My thought around setting up this expedition was to come up with strategies to help reduce these problems. I think this could involve a multi-pronged approach, because different kinds of news can be developed differently. For example, fixed events such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Presidential Inauguration, Summer Solstice, etc. are predictable, so collaborative editing of these news items would work well if they had a higher profile. On the other hand, events such as an airline going bankrupt aren't predictable, so the only way to respond is to be aware of them and add such items promptly. I'd be interested to hear what issues others have about the news and their thoughts around how to make things better. I'll have more concrete thoughts of my own as well in the near future. Cheers, JYolkowski 22:39, 11 February 2009 (EST)
RSS Feeds[edit]If anyone are using an RSS reader or aggregator, I'd encourage you to sign up for the US State departments Travel warnings and alerts feeds, which can be found here and also the Australian version. Unfortunantly the British FCO doesn't seem to be providing such feeds. If we are more users signed up, it will increase the chances of catching new alerts, and relaying them on the front page. If anyone can come up with other feeds that would be useful for us to watch, please come forward. --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 10:56, 21 February 2009 (EST) Proposed redesign for Travel News on Main Page[edit]Based on the discussion above, I've created a proposal for a revamp of the "Travel News" section on the Main Page; see Wikitravel:News Expedition/Travel news proposal. I thought I'd propose it here first and see if there's any interest in this and iron out any problems here before making this higher-profile. If you have any comments or suggestions, please discuss here or just go ahead and edit the proposal itself. Cheers, JYolkowski 21:41, 5 March 2009 (EST)
Cool, seems like there's general agreement that this is better than before. I'll propose this on Talk:Main Page shortly. Cheers, JYolkowski 19:08, 13 March 2009 (EDT)
Pictures w/Travel News[edit]Copied over from Talk:Main Page: Just a thought. Would probably need to edit the "newsitem" template to add this, but I don't think having a couple more photos would be too bad (look at the number of photos on Wikipedia). Comments? AHeneen 02:29, 15 March 2009 (EDT)
To note -- the image must use the |right or |left parameters in order for the text to wrap properly. And I would suggest no more than one image at a time -- not one per news item. LtPowers 07:49, 16 March 2009 (EDT) Kudos[edit]This expedition seems to me really successful and you guys are doing really great work—it's nice to see such good content regularly cycling across the Main Page! --Peter Talk 22:55, 31 March 2009 (EDT) Travel News[edit]Swept in from pub: Just a reminder to everyone to please help with updating the news. You don't even have to read lots of stories, simply spending a few minutes browsing headlines...you can spot ones which might affect travelers. You should read the news to begin with...it will give you a better understanding of the world and consequently better understand where you travel. Just spend 5-10 minutes browsing some news websites and then 5-10 min. adding some stories to Travel News (copy the new items before saving, then paste them to the main page). My favorites are: BBC News, France24, & Fox News. A few others that you might want to check out are: Reuters, CNN, Al Jazeera, & RIA Novosti. —The preceding comment was added by AHeneen (talk • contribs) . |
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