All I am saying is Wikipedia is not a news site. And if we have to have
a policy on why we are not Wikipedia, then they should have one on why
they are not Wikinews.
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Jason Safoutin
Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator
jason.safoutin(a)wikinewsie.org
Brian McNeil wrote:
Do we want the Wikipedia news people? They'd need
to put in a lot more
effort - at the moment they just make 2-3 sentences from an item that is
being included in Wikipedia, and their work appears on the 8th most popular
site on the Internet.
Wikinews does okay having a link above the crease on WP's main page. Selling
a link like that on the main page would probably be worth six figures, we're
not capitalising on that. And we cannot order people from Wikipedia to work
on Wikinews to do so. It is like the meta discussion on a global BLP, we
don't want told what we can and can't write, let alone even risk it. WP
people involved with their news section would not take kindly to being told
to do a full report on Wikinews.
Brian.
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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jason Safoutin
Sent: 25 May 2009 21:53
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'
That can already be done easily as it is now. Those who write the news
on WP can write the news on WP. It should not be a matter of popularity,
but a matter of getting out the most information, the easiest, quickest
way possible, with as much *collaboration *as possible. As it is, with
the contributions on WP for the news, we are not collaborating we are
competing. It may or may not be an intentional competition but is its
one. It seems the only time we get any contributors from WP is when they
do something to piss everyone else off. When the incident is settled,
they go back to writing news on WP...the same news that they were just
writing on WN. So I am just lost as to what exactly the point of all
this would be? Its like taking what WMF stands for and ignoring it
because something may or may not be as popular as it was before.