[Foundation-l] Re: Swedish, Spanish, French Wikinews set up

[Anthere]

I would appreciate greatly that when you create a new wikinews, you take 
care of updating the wikinews page, which is currently stating that only 
en and de exist.

Second, when the project was approved by the board, I think we agreed on 
a couple of mandatory requests, in particular to insure that the 
wikinews would not be managed by 2 editors with a particular bias.

I did not check for all the wikis you created, I only check for the 
language I know.

I do not see where these steps are respected here. In particular, I do 
not see the names of the five regular editors supporting the french 
version. I have no memory of much discussion about that on the french 
pump either. A couple of guys mentionned it would be nice, but that is all.

My personal opinion Erik. I did not approve wikinews because I felt it 
would be biaised and it would divide the community strength. Also, the 
majority of french editors did not support it.

This is why some mandatory steps were added to try to limit the risk of 
us having a baised project. To ensure enough support would exist for 
each individual project.

In setting up a new wikinews without following these rules we commonly 
aggreed with, you are making a joke of the whole agreement. I gave my 
agreement for wikinews because there was such an agreement between us.

I stand up by these requirements of 5 editors interested and involved.

So, I think that in 1 or 2 weeks from now, I will look at these newly 
created wikiprojects, and if the requirement of creation is not 
respected (ie, at least 5 real editors working on it), I will either 
block the new project or ask that a big stamp mentions proeminently that 
the project in-work is not related to wikinews as well as have another 
logo set on it.

Anthere

Elisabeth Bauer a écrit:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
>> The next editions likely to be created are Bulgarian and Chinese.
> 
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh
> 
> Are you sure that this is a good idea? IMO it's questionable if a wiki 
> should really be set up if a clear majority voted against the creation 
> of wikinews, especially with the concerns raised there.
> 
> greetings,
> elian
> 
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