WikiUpLib:Cable/Definition

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A cable is :

  • a headline whose length is 140 characters minus the place for a link (1st channel is twitter)
  • a shortlink bringing to the cable content which is stored as a wikipage at http://uplib.fr (we may use our own link shortener)
  • there may, or not, be an associate image (to see)


Cable technical format

A cable content is a short wiki page made of :

  • Generally only a few informative lines about a news. Should be easily readable.
  • No predefined format. Maybe an optimal format will emerge, and we will adopt it. But at the beginning, we just try our best.
  • some links (internal and external)
  • 1 image
  • the whole should stand in a page without scrollbar
  • images must be proven licence free images ("image is ok, believe me" is not a proof)
  • image size must be reasonable (max 150ko, mean 100ko), if writers don't know how to do ... learn !
  • no a priori cable validation (5 minutes at maximum). The great a priori validation is done by being selected to be a member of the team. The hypothesis is then confidence (until it is broken).
  • posteriori validation : if a writer breaks the editorial policy and/or the technical policy too much, he is simply fired
  • an original cable may followed by related retweets
  • an original cable may be replayed 2 or 3 times in the day
  • an original cable may be replayed as an archive when relevant
  • a cable is not fixed. It can very well be augmented in the minutes/hours/days which follow the news with additionnal informations, links, reactions, etc
  • each cable gets some categories. Which will facilitate compilation etc.
  • a cable has its short life on social medias, and a longer one on the wiki
  • a cable may be available in several languages
  • cables are searchable from inside the wiki, and from outside (google etc). This increases of course the audience.



Cable content

  • info prémâchée, à la boing boing. Substantifique moelle. résumé, extrait -> disposer d'un marqueur de guillemets -> modèles


Non urgent Cables

  • there is a need for urgent cables, but all cables cannot be urgent (that's not sustainable)
  • long and relevant quotes


Cable production

Cables production goes from

  1. picking relevant informations (matching the editorial policy),
  2. picking them early,
  3. writing the cable,
  4. managing to have it propeled/announced/mentionned/heralded on twitter rapidly (minutes after writing)
  5. updating the cable

Cable production is done here, in the wiki. A cable is a wikipage.

UpLib's priorities are 1/ the picking 2/ earliness. A minimum quality of writing is required. But writing must not delay the early cables.

Non urgent cables are of course also allowed and encouraged. But we feel that there is a need of several early news each day to make the twitter timeline attractive and catch audience.


Animation

  • an original cable may followed by related retweets
  • an original cable may be replayed 2 or 3 times in the day
  • an original cable may be replayed as an archive when relevant : à relire sur UpLib :