Proposal: Making news more accessible

[Wu Han]

I wanted to leave it until someone else responded as I worried I was muddying the waters a bit and hoped another proposal would clarify things. Luckily, James provided such a proposal; I agree with everything he wrote.

I think my main issue stems from having advocated for the "Literature" subtopic in the first place: in any potential reorganization, I want the "Literature" subtopic to remain in largely the same form, with its specific theme/style of writing. I think "Academia" could/should be merged with "Literature" as the theme and general style of writing in those topics are similar. Thus, I specifically agree with the proposals toward this end from James.

The only thing I'm not sure about is the "Politics and Economics" section, as I'm not sure what would go into the "politics" subsection? Also, with how "Intergovernmental Organizations" are organized under the proposal, where would I put a non-governmental organization, or a humanitarian organization, or a lobbyist group (for examples)? Under "Politics?" Just curious...

[GreekIdiot]

Quoting james's proposed layout here real quick for reference.

Disclaimer: I have not been able to 100% follow the details of information posted by either james/wu.

I do like the principle of "themes", however.

National News
World Events
↳ Conflicts
↳ Diplomacy
↳ Media
Intergovernmental Organizations
↳ Global
↳ Regional
Politics and Economics
↳ Business
↳ Politics
Culture and Society
↳ Arts
↳ Literature
↳ Religion
↳ Sport
World Congress
↳ General Assembly
↳ Security Council
↳ Campaigns
↳ Sessions Archive
↳ Resolutions Archive

Newsfeed (empty, maybe includes a couple of "directory" style threads, i.e. List of Newspapers)
↳ National News
↳ Diplomacy
↳ Conflicts
↳ Media

Organisations (empty, maybe includes a couple of "directory" style threads)
↳ World Congress (I'd argue that to me this subsection is unnecessarily broken down, but that's not really a strong position, james has been running it)
↳ Global
↳ Regional

Life (empty, maybe includes a couple of "directory" style threads)
↳ Business
↳ Politics (includes orgs and lobbies to answer wu)
↳ Religion
↳ Sports
↳ Culture (arts, literature, academia in one place)

[GreekIdiot]

After syncing with james and louis, we'll be taking this a little bit step by step. Generally our goal remains to simplify things.