[Imc-oceania] Re German IndyMedia

Wed May 30 04:09:54 UTC 2007

Just a warning, folks, about the German IndyMedia site. It may be different 
now - hopefully! - with foreigners coming in and perhaps using it, but in 
the normal day-to-day running of it there seems to be a self-righteous, 
know-all group censoring postings. They won't allow you to publicise 
upcoming events, for example, nor will they publish a press release. I have 
argued with them for years but there's no movement. They have a very myopic, 
only grudgingly international approach to what an IndyMedia site should be. 
Every piddling little anti-Nazi action somewhere has hugely better chances 
of getting published than a call to a worthy event. If you're going to use 
them this time, rattle their cage and complain. Maybe this event will wake 
them up to what IndyMedia's for. Diet Simon, Noosa, Australia, formerly 
Gorleben, Germany.

This is the sanctimonious message you get when you don't play by their 
rules, which I see no other IndyMedia site I"ve visited using in any shape 
or form (see part translation below):

Anmerkung der Moderationsgruppe: Trotz der Bitte, de.indymedia.org zum 
Veröffentlichen von eigenen Berichten und selbst recherchierten Reportagen 
zu nutzen, wurde hier ein Termin, ein Demoaufruf, die Einladung zu einer 
Veranstaltung oder die Ankündigung einer Aktion reinkopiert.
Es ist nicht das Ziel von Indymedia, ein möglichst umfassendes Infoportal 
incl. Terminkalender anzubieten. Indymedia will ein Plattform für engagierte 
MedienmacherInnen und ihren eigenen Inhalte bieten. Das Veröffentlichen von 
Terminen, Aufrufen und Einladungen gehört nicht zu den Zielen des Projektes. 
Mehr Informationen, warum sich Indymedia nicht zum Veröffentlichen von 
Terminen eignet, findest Du hier.    Bitte nutze stattdessen die verlinkten 
Terminkalender-Seiten.

Despite the wish of the moderator group to use indymedia to publish own 
reports and self-researched reportages, here an appontment, a demo call, the 
invitation to an event or the announcement of an action was copied in. It is 
not the aim of IndyMedia to offer a comprehensive information portal, 
including events calendar.  IndyMedia wants to be a platform for engaged 
media makers and their own contents. The publication of action dates, calls 
and invitations is not one of the aims of the project.

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> In the run-up to the upcoming G8 summit in Germany, it was decided that an
> English section on the Indymedia Germany site would be necessary, as tens
> of thousands of international protesters and activists are expected to
> come and do their own reporting in languages other than German. This has
> now been set up (http://de.indymedia.org/en) and is already seeing some
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> form etc.) have been translated into English, so it should be easy for
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