"Dominating it" Phoebe? We're talking about *a* single thread. One
thread. That you can delete on sight without reading. And yet you keep reading
it, and you keep complaining about reading it. Doesn't that seem a bit
counter-productive.
Just... stop... reading.. that one thread. Just say no. I have faith.
Will
By failing I mean that it never achieved any sort of siginificant presence.
When Wikinews was started it was, imho, to shunt news off the main project
into its own space. News by it's nature is far more verbose then
encyclopedic material. News inundates you constantly, while encyclopedic material is
more placid and stable.
News should be far more material. And yet the English Wikinews has only 15
thousand articles. So something seriously went wrong in that approach. It
simply did not capture the attention of any significant part of the core
community.
It's a bit silly to talk about three thousand links, when we have over
three million articles. So that's one tenth of one percent? In terms of news
outlets, our own news outlet gets a trivial number of links compared to
others. And it's ours! That's my point. That's what I consider failing.
Crawling along with your tongue out in the desert, while the nearest water is 20
miles away.
Better to re-focus attention on those projects which are successful, than
have ten non-successful projects dragging off any resources at all.
Will
In a message dated 11/5/2009 11:29:32 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rarohde(a)gmail.com writes:
> In a $6 million budget, I'd honestly be disappointed if the Foundation
> wasn't spending at least $100k on development projects that might some
> day take off,>>
But that's exactly my point. Wikinews has had it's chance, for years, and
it didn't make the grade. Time to cut the losses and try a new project with
that 100K investment. Every corporation looks at the brands which have
lingered around and has to make the decision to cut and re-direct. How many
more years do you want to give Wikinews to try to make it before you cut it
out? Or would you never cut it out at all? 100K on a new project like
WikiEarth or WikiDirections or WikiStockQuotes or whatever might pay off soon.
Wikinews has never paid off it's investment.
Will
Hey All--
The WMF fundraising team will have a new member starting today: Megan
Hernandez.
Megan recently graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in Human
Development and a minor in Spanish Literature. Previously, Megan has
worked with the American Cancer Society and spent time as a volunteer
coordinator at Mundo De Ninos Children's Shelter in Peru.
She will be working as Development Associate
(http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Development_Associate) and will
immediately be diving into providing support for the Annual Fundraiser.
Please help me in making Megan feel welcome.
-Rand
--
Rand Montoya
Head of Community Giving
Wikimedia Foundation
www.wikimedia.org
Email: rand(a)wikimedia.org
Phone: 415.839.6885 x615
Fax: 415.882.0495
Cell: 510.685.7030
“At some future time, I hope to have something witty, intelligent, or
funny in this space.”
Hey all --
Just heard that Steve Kent (Head of Office IT Support) got fired. Is this
just a wild rumor? If not, what's the backstory?
MZMcBride
public(a)mzmcbride.com
Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
no outside agency points at Wikinews articles for anything.
Why do we still have this project?
Will
Hi all, Rand asked me to forward this email for him as his client is
presenting difficulties getting it to the list.
--
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate