[IMC-UK-Features] Region proposal - was: topic page proposal

[wietse]

Hi all,

A few weeks ago I wrote this email to the lists with a proposal for a 
new topic page:

> I would like to propose a new topic page:
>
> URL:  /en/actions/sea
> Title: Actions At Sea
> Description: Actions which happen at and/or related to our seas
>
> The reason why I'd like to propose this topic page is because of the 
> ongoing and intensifying campaigning by both greenpeace and the sea 
> shepherd on the whaling issue as well as other campaigning which 
> happen at and/or related to the seas. The Indymedia network covers 
> mostly regional areas, but the vast majority of the planet is covered 
> in water. I guess not much happens around the worlds oceans, but it 
> would be nice to have a space to collect stuff that does happen.

After having discussed this with various people, I would like to change 
this proposal into one for a region as what goes on this page is more 
dictated geographically than topically. I feel it is important to set 
this up, especially as there is no such regional news archived 
accessibly anywhere within the Indymedia network and also as campaigning 
around marine wildlife and the state of our oceans seems to have 
intensified.

I'm happy to commit populating and to moderating this new regional page 
and provide features for/ from it.

> There are tonnes of newswire items related to the recent Sea Shepherd 
> adventures and a couple of features, with another one from Notts being 
> published in a couple of weeks.

This feature will be published on Notts later today

> I've added this proposal to the wikipage as well:
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkTopics

As far as I know there is no set process of agreeing on creating a new 
region, as there is for topic pages. Maybe we could set a deadline of 
Monday 14th April to discuss this? I have slightly changed the proposed 
url and description:

URL:  /en/regions/sea
Title: Indymedia at sea
Description: Actions which happen at sea and/or related to our seas

Cheers, Wietse