MF-Warburg wrote:
> Hello. I have some doubts. While the number of edits in the project is
> certainly impressive, this seems to be achieved by a tactic of doing
> extremely minor edits in order to create fairly short articles. There were
> four articles that were edited today, you can see it in all of them:
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Gando_nuhahun_aku%…
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Nawe_d%C3%A9_domi%…
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Insurance_h%C3%B2_…
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Buhari,_Jonathan_p…
>
> A first user creates the article in little slices, then user Samatics comes
> in to fix some formalities. All articles are rather short and link to a
> single English-language article (is it the source?) each.
> Incidentally, you can also put all of the articles into Google Translate
> and it will recognize them as being in Yoruba and put out an intelligible
> English translation. I don't know how worrisome that is, though (but see <
> https://books.google.de/books?id=801byTVQSuwC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq…
> at the bottom of p. 2).
>
> Am Mi., 15. Feb. 2023 um 15:47 Uhr schrieb Sotiale Wiki <
> sotiale.wm(a)gmail.com&gt;gt;:
>
> >   I agree to the approval of guwwikinews.
> >
> >  I had previously been concerned about this project's focus on creating
> >  Wikimedia projects in a short period of time, but I realized that this was
> >  just my pointless concern. Some projects are often left unattended to
> >  establish other projects after being approved. However, guw projects are
> >  not, and are usually maintained and contributed continuously.
> >
> >  The sustainability of the community and sufficient contributions are also
> >  generally satisfactory. And no major problems are found that would prevent
> >  approval.
> >
> >  Therefore, I have absolutely no reason to oppose, and I'm in favor of
> >  approval.
> >
> >  Sotiale
> >
> >  2023년 2월 14일 (화) 오후 9:37, Jon Harald Søby &lt;jhsoby(a)gmail.xn--com&gt;-4f21ay07k 작성:
> >
> >   Hi all!
> >
> >  I would like to suggest the approval of the Gungbe Wikinews [1]. The test
> >  wiki was started in October, and has had a steady and solid activity ever
> >  since [2], with a core group of 8 active users who have made a substantial
> >  number of edits.
> >
> >  According to Samatics, their most active contributor, they average about
> >  7 new articles per day (I haven't double-checked this number, but have no
> >  reason to doubt it). For comparison, the 14 newest articles on the English
> >  Wikinews as of right now range from February 12 to January 8, so that's one
> >  article every 2.5 days – meaning the Gungbe Wikinews is already one of the
> >  most currently active Wikinews editions. They even have an audio Wikinews
> >  subproject [3] with spoken news articles!
> >
> >  The localization of MediaWiki into Gungbe is great and ongoing, currently
> >  MediaWiki core is at 70 % [4].
> >
> >  [1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw
> >  [2]
> >
> > https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wn/guw&…
> >  [3] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wn/guw/Linlin-hihia
> >  [4] https://codelookup.toolforge.org/guw
> >
> >  --
> >  mvh
> >  Jon Harald Søby
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Hello,

Apologies for posting here. I just found out about this threads and I want to address MF-Warburg concerns.

As far as I can tell, wikinews articles are mostly news summary from respected newspapers as sources (at most 2 sources per article). This policy we have adhered to. Most of the news articles on enwikinews are stub-like if compared to enwiki articles see examples here:

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/More_than_100_killed_in_mosque_bombing_in_Pakistan
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Earthquake_strikes_Aksu_Prefecture,_Xinjiang_Region,_China;_no_casualties_reported
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_singer_Madonna%27s_elder_brother_Anthony_Ciccone_dies_at_age_66
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Glasshouse_in_to_Tier_1_women%27s_cricket_final_on_Australia%27s_Sunshine_Coast

When we started this project, we cite two to three sources but decided to stick to one source since ours is summarising a news article and then translating it. This is a community decision. You can see examples here.

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Folasade_Ogunsola_l%E1%BA%B9zun_y%E1%BB%8Dnnu_tintan_heyin_m%E1%BA%B9b%E1%BB%8Ddo-azinpon%E1%BB%8D_UNILAG_t%E1%BB%8Dn_go

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Naijilia_na_klan_eyin_Bola_Tinubu_l%E1%BA%B9zun_t%C3%B2g%C3%A1n_w%E1%BA%B9_Obaseki_d%E1%BB%8D

As to posting short edits, I correct the sentences in most cases and that gives a lot of issues to me. So I encouraged writing text in bits and making sure the tonal markers are right. This reduces the level of my corrections on the body of texts. I also come in to add the proper formatting (once we get approval importing and then using the templates is usually easy and this will reduce this work) and audio to the news. You can confirm this trends on guwwiki or guwwiktionary. It's not a tactic as you concluded. Gungbe is tonal and a word if not marked properly can have different meanings e.g owhé(house), owhe(year),  owhè(sun).

Concerning using Google translate to translate our article and Google suggesting it as Yoruba. A proper test I think you should have done is reversing the Google translated text in English back to Yoruba and you will be amazed to see that no single word or expression will be the same as the previous text in gungbe. But thanks for this observations, it makes me to be aware of the possibility of gungbe being added to Google translate languages soon. My explanation for this is that there are large body of texts online for Gungbe and Google's algorithm is based on how close a written text is to an existing language. I found this interesting paper https://metatext.io/datasets/jw300. And did the same test you did on this:
https://www.jw.org/guw/Wes%E1%BA%B9dot%E1%BA%B9n/linlinwe-l%E1%BA%B9/at%C3%B2%CC%A3h%C3%B2%CC%A3-nuhih%C3%B3%CC%A3-l%E1%BB%8D-t%E1%BB%8Dn-s%E1%BB%8Dha1-2019-jan-f%C3%A9vr/naw%E1%BA%B9-jiwhey%E1%BA%B9whe-n%E1%BB%8D-yin/

https://www.jw.org/guw/nuhe-biblu-pl%E1%BB%8Dn-m%C3%AD/kanbi%E1%BB%8D-l%E1%BA%B9/pipeh%E1%BA%B9-z%C3%B2%CC%A3n-j%E1%BA%B9magb%E1%BB%8D/
The texts are in gungbe but Google gives an intelligent translation and detects it as Yoruba. But when done in the reverse. It doesn't match the previous text. (You can try it too)

I'll suggest when you do such test next time, try to do the reverse and see if it matches the previous text.

In addition to the above, you can see that most of our sports news article are longer than most enwikinews articles. You can see here:

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Kane_do_ag%C3%B3_200t%E1%BB%8D_et%E1%BB%8Dn_to_Premier_League_m%E1%BA%B9_dile_Tottenham_duto_Man_City_ji

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Man_City_h%C3%B2_Chelsea,_nado_s%E1%BA%B9p%E1%BB%8D_m%E1%BA%B9he_to_aga_to_todohukanji_EPL_t%E1%BB%8Dn_m%E1%BA%B9

Or a full list in the sports category:

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wn/guw/Aihundida_lanm%E1%BA%B9yiya_t%E1%BB%8Dn

Let me know if further clarifications are needed from me.
Once again, apologies for posting here as I assume it is not open to the public.

Best
Samatics
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