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
-----Original Message-----
From: wikinews-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic
Sent: 14 November 2007 11:44
To: wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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.
_______________________________________________
Wikinews-l mailing list
Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l