Erik Moeller a écrit:
Elian -
I didn't see a reaction from the board to
your announcement that
nl.wikinews was set up. You seem to confuse not reacting with having
no objections or "being happy".
I did speak to both Jimmy and Angela about it before I set it up, and
they were OK with launching it. I could not reach Anthere, that's why I
first only set up
nl.wikinews.org to give her a chance to react.
Technically, I did not need to speak to any of them, since the policy
was already agreed upon.
I can be reached any time by email. I check it dozens of time per day,
even during work hours.
My mail adress is anthere(a)wikimedia.org.
I am also often on irc, though admitedly not at the same hours you are,
since I am at work during the day.
I also check my user pages on meta, fr and en everyday.
I had no reason to comment on nl creation. Dutch editors supported
greatly the wikinews. Obviously, there was already a high enough number
of editors to take care of it nicely.
When I was in Rotterdam, I talked with Puck on this matter, and he made
important comments about it I think. I know there are several seriously
involved people working on it. So, there is no comparison.
My issue with fr is not a global one, and Elian is correct in saying
this is not a board issue I am trying to raise here. The global
community supported the project, the board approved the project, so this
is just enough. The board is not concerned any more now.
I talk just as an editor.
An editor who just know that there was no global support in the french
speaking community (so, it would probably have deserved talking to the
community first)
and who know the 5 editors requirements is counting editors who are not
french speaking, or not very active or just not active anymore (so, I
question the validity of this requirement and question the ability of
wikinews to function and build a nice community on these basis).
and the day of its creation, it was not even labelled as a beta site.
I know some people are working on it, but it is different from new
language wikipedias. All the rules are still to set up. It will take
time to do so.
I think we should favor a down top approach. Which means people (enough
people) should be asking for a wiki. Not the top down approach where one
person decide which languages are ready to start.
I remember frequent calls on the mailing list, for the setting up of
french wiktionary for example. You could hear the people asking for it.
Asking and asking and asking again. You then know editors badly want it.
Here, I heard nothing at all.
Anthere