[Seattle-editorial] Eds.Notes: Editorial WG Meeting 3-21-04

[Joseph Eisenschmidt]

The Editorial WG held it's formal meting on 3-21-04.

Attendees were: Walt, Benjamin, Mark, Laury, Tonieh, and Joseph.

Notetaker: Joseph

The meeting was casual, and well attended, as three new folks 
arrived, including 2 folks who were not white males.

More time was spent on the ranking and rating of articles than any 
other subject. 

Much was discussed about the desireability of having the readers 
rank and even hide articles from view by voting. 

One member felt that we would be in a better legal position if the 
'editing' of the newswire was done by the public in a consistant 
way. 

Also, it was suggeseted that we insert a check box on the publish 
page telling folks posting to the newswire that their work is being 
submitted for the use of SEAIMC, allowing us to edit or post it as 
we wish. They would agree to this or not by checking. We reached no 
decisions on this, but agreed to ask S.B. about the ranking and 
rating functionality of Mir.

We talked about the importance of contacting writers when using 
their work in ways that might alter it or use it in un-intended 
places.

We noted that our 'open publishing' button which used to link to 
our policies and proceedures is broken.

We discussed and agreed to look into Portlands editorial policy 
with a mind to amalgamating some of their good activities into ours.

We discussed how the comments section affected our work and the 
appearence of the newswire. We agreed to consider new ways of 
limiting comments short of just hiding abusive ones. mentioned was 
limiting the number, or the date after which comments could be 
made. We did not make any decisions about comments.

We agreed to ask Nathaniel, Rick, and folks from RadioX to give us 
an update on their efforts, and Mark was particularly interested in 
building a radio or audio news show of interest to the readers. 
Perhaps a compendium of audio from various sources.

Laury offered Flash, Graphics layout, and clerking services.

Tonieh offered with clerking the wire, and doing script conversion 
and other services. 

It was agreed that attending another Ed. Meeting would be required 
for Mark, Laury, and Tonieh to receive passwords to the admin of 
Mir.

We agreed to ask S.B about implementing the local newswire section 
of the newswire, Ranking and rating options, and other technical 
issues which we can talk about offline.

It was thus.

Joseph 

  

  





  



Joseph