Just a brief comment that I am really pleased to see the wide spectrum
of world interest in the news articles selected. I am so saddened these
days by the tabloid quality in the UK TV and radio news and the Wiki
news is like breath of fresh air. Please keep your high standards.
Professor Paul Barrow
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Milos mentioned Google Wave in another thread. I have four invites if
anyone's interested. I thought we could try out a collaboration on
there sometime, though if you want to just play with it, that's fine
too! Reply here if you want one.
If you're already on it, my address is thewub.wiki(a)googlewave.com
Pete / the wub
Please Help!! [[Wikinews turns 5]] ( http://enwn.net/BA452 ) needs to be
spruced up so we can have something really kick ass for our birthday.
Lets make it a real community effort, read the talk page for ideas if you
need somewhere to start or something to work with.
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Jon
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This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
Today I've noticed creation of the account on sr.wn which means "Jobs
Serbia". It is obviously that it is an account from some portal which
is used for job advertisement. Instantly I've got an idea: to offer to
that portal to make one page per day for linking the job offerings. It
is useful and it is relevant to many Wikinews readers, as well as it
may make Wikinews more relevant to its readers.
But, I've started to think further... To allow original advertisements
or to require linking to a relevant site? For some time I was thinking
that it is better not to allow original content related to
advertisement, but, after all, I think that it is about wiki and wiki
should allow that. At last, advertisement is the part of almost all
daily newspapers and why not to put it on Wikinews, too?
Further, advertisement may be about a lot of fields, not just about
jobs. It may be about housing, cars, whatever...
So, the question is where to stop? At the beginning and not do that at
all or to allow every [legal] advertisement? Or something between?
At one side, it is not so relevant at the English language area: there
is Craigslist for that. In many other language areas such portals
don't exist and they don't have a lot of chances for success because
there are not enough of users who would be willing to use one
specialized site for that kind of advertisement.
At the other side, it is relevant as a concept for en.wn and other
Wikinews editions. If it becomes successful as a model, it may bring
new quality and many more users.
You may guess that I am very interested for that idea :) However, I
think that it is very possible that I am inside of a small minority.
Tell me what do you think about that and, more important, which
problems may we have? (BTW, yes, it is about spreading free
information and I don't think that it is against WMF's goals.)
Let's put it to a vote shall we?
Should a list moderator completely ban this "person"?
Ironic that he trots out Orwellian analogies. Particularly considering a
substantial number of the 'topically appropriate' articles I've
contributed to Wikinews.
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In a message dated 11/4/2009 7:47:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org writes:
> Yes I did. It still violates all the WMF principles and policies I've
> left above. If the Serbian mission statement allows it - the WMF will
> withdraw approval for that mission statement and demand it be revised.>>
Then we will elect new Foundation members, which is our right.
We'll take the old ones out behind the barn and beat them.
The community drives the rules. The rules do not drive the community.
Do you have any other examples of the Foundation actually "demanding"
something that the community was against? Or demanding it stop something that the
community was for? I can't. This line of attack undermines the community
as the ultimate force behind all results. We do not work for the
foundation. The foundation works for us.
Will
In a message dated 11/4/2009 12:25:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org writes:
> This is your *last* troll on this list. Educate yourself or get banned.>>
You have responded to every message I've left. Troll and hypocrite.
If I'm banned, then you should also be banned. Since you are exactly the
same.
Will
In a message dated 11/4/2009 12:12:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org writes:
> If it existed to serve whatever the hell the community works it would
> allow members - it doesn't. You know why? To *protect the mission*. That
> mission is not there for others to exploit for commercial purposes.>>
Anyone can run for the board.
What do you mean?
I've various things going on at the moment keeping me busy. I'd like not
to have to worry too much about the list being moderated over the next
couple of weeks.
Various points I've noted when daily clearing the junk
*phishing from ebay/banks/dhl - set to auto-discard these email
addresses, will never be real subscribers
*ditto for clear PR, seminars, newsletters (nonspoofed) - most of these
say they're from noreply@whatever
*Cyrillic spam - the new fad is apparently harvesting millions of .ru
email addresses and spoofing them to send such.
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