I agree. We need more inter-language coordination. Although stuff does
diffuse between languages, that doesn't happen very fast.
However I think admins should be on whatever language they represent,
but a lot of other things like accreditation should be cross language
(in cooperation with wikinews foundation when it happens like BrianMc
said).
Perhaps we should also start some page on meta to coordinate
inter-language stuff (in the past though such things have died
quickly)
Maybe have each wiki write sort of reports (translated by google
translater?) every so often (~once every couple of months, but just
short little things, couple paragraphs at most. nothing like
Eloquence's state of the wiki.) describinbg what local events that
have happened, what successes the wiki has had of recent, what
pitfalls/mistakes they have made, just general thoughts of general
wikilife so we're all on the same page.
-bawolff
On Nov 14, 2007 5:23 AM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
I agree, each language Wikinews is a relatively small
community. We need to
work cross-wiki on things like weather, oil prices, and other standard
automated news website stuff. Bots that do things like create new day
category pages should be moved over to the toolserver and set up to cover
all language variants and appropriate interwiki links.
Craig Spurrier is currently drawing up plans to propose a Wikinews
Foundation (name not decided). This will be purposed with the task of
standing behind the reporters, verifying credentials, and so on. If that
comes to fruition, I'll likely hand over the
wikinewsie.org domain to the
org.
Brian McNeil
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Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikinews internationalization
I think that Wikinews is small enough that it may avoid Wikipedia
mistakes. The biggest one is Wikipedia's communities separation to
language projects. So, I suggest next policies:
- One body at the organizational level. For example,
wikinewsie.org
should be a matter of all Wikinewsians; accreditations should be
Wikinews-wide, not en.wn only; if there are offices in other parts of
the world, they should function as offices of any other news agency.
- The same policies. From basic ones (like NPOV is) via different
procedures to, ideally, one place for voting for project admins.
- The same methods at the technical level. If we have some bot for
currency exchange rates, it should work all over the projects, not
only on one.
There are a lot of bad things which may be avoided if we are
functioning as one community, not as separate, language based
communities.
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