context

At wikinews (sister of wikipedia where anyone can write news) beginners find it hard to get started, and to find what to write about in their local area. There is a need in a program which lists good news sources for a particular area and lists what happened recently here or what may happen soon so that a volunteer writer or reporter can start writing about the event immediately after it happened. This may increase participation because writing a new article would become easier. This may also increases the chances of local participation as the locals would become able to unite into groups to update their local content.

data satisfies these requirements

• an '''event''' has a name, date + time range, place (longitude, latitude), links to '''url'''s, notes
• an '''url''' has an url string, title, publisher, link to event
• a '''publisher''' has a location (name, found at wikidata or openstreetmap which allows to visually present publishers on a map), title, url, rss feed

people can

• view events on a map
• view events on a time line
• add an event
• add an url
• link an url with an event
• list urls whose events are unknown
• view publishers on a map

the app can

• automatically add newly published entries from publishers, automatically suggest dates whilst leaving these new entries as pending review ** this includes adding new trends/events from social networks such as twitter or facebook

implementation detail

• a javascript script on wiki which stores its data in json format
• or an existing app/program hosted off wiki