Wikinews/Open issues

How should articles be titled? We probably want to be able to modify and rewrite headlines, so if the title is the headline then the article will have to be moved all over the place. Perhaps the best solution is to just have the key words.

Authors and dates should get categories.

Will we give the date of a reporter? The location it was filed from?

What will Wikinews bylines look like? Presumably collaborative stories won't mention reporters, much like small AP and Reuters wire feeds, but larger ones will?

Is it possible to write Wikinews summaries of reports for historical events?

Which of these are appropriate for Wikinews?

• Book summaries
• Movie summaries (e.g. for documentaries)
• Interviews
• Upcoming events / calendars

Wikinews should have some sort of office or project to take in feedback from readers and users and think about ways to fix the process and system to better achieve its goals.

Should there be topic pages for ongoing investigations, linking to all related articles?

What about for news topics themselves? In a statement like "Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority died today" it seems like the terms should link to a page that looks like:

Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) (born August 4 or August 24, 1929 as Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni, also known as Abu Ammar) is the President of the Palestinian Authority (leader since 1993, elected to a four-year term in 1996); leader of Fatah and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (since 1969), and co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. (Read more...)

In the news

• Arafat dies : Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority has died today. ...

• Celebrities team up to beat Bush : ...and ate caviar. Among the gathered was Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a somewhat...

• and so on...

Such a page would be automatically generated by grabbing the first paragraph from the associated Wikipedia page and doing a search for links to the topic page.

Perhaps, similarly, Wikipedia pages could have a

like

which pulls in the top headlines for a newsmaker and displays them in a sidebar.

One topic page I'd like to do is a page of interesting stories which aren't receiving attention in the mainstream media.

• "I watched [the Russian agent] him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists."

• "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."