Shutting down Wikinews is not the only strategic option. Wikinews is now
hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. In the future it could be hosted by
another organization. For example Wikia. Or maybe the current users start a
Wikinews Association or Foundation and will start self hosting. Someone
from the Wikimedia Foundation should weigh in with a marginal cost estimate
of hosting Wikinews. It probably might be not much more than the cost of
the domain registration. For the Wikimedia Foundation the financial cost
saving would be not more than those domain registration fees. Currently
there is no case the existence of Wikinews hurts the reputation of
Wikimedia or Wikipedia in my opinion.
Regards,
Ad Huikeshoven
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 9:17 PM Dan Garry (Deskana) <djgwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:41, Yaroslav Blanter
<ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, I am not a fan of Wikinews and I do not
particularly see the
project as in any way successful. However, if the project is shut down
against the will of the community (I now mean the Wikinews community, or
perhaps even specifically the English Wikinews community), I will ask
myself whether Wikivoyage (I am active in the Russian Wikivoyage, where
we
have a couple of dozen active users) could also
be shut down one day
against the will of the community, just because we are not successful
competing with the brands like Lonely Planet, DK, or Michelin, for
example.
I've not seen any proposals involving shutting down projects without
community involvement, so hopefully you shouldn't need to worry about this.
Dan
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