[Wikinews-l] Should srwn be shut down as abandoned?

[Jon Davis]

This might seem a little callous against our SR brethren, but SRWN is dead.
Take a look at Recent Changes
http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE:RecentChanges-
It is a serious fight to find anything happening that isn't a bot.
Yes,
the article count is increasing, scarily so... but that is only because news
is being copied wholesale from other sites.  In the end, 99.9% of their
articles never get touched by a human.

Take a look at
http://sr.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Hju_D%C5%BEekmen_i_Ali%C5%A1a_Silverston_u_komediji&action=historyfor
example.  One bot uploads it, another fixes it... that's the entire
wiki.

The real truth in death I think comes from the Wikimedia Stats page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaSR.htm  - Take a look
at the new reporters chart.  The last new reporter they had was in December.


Sure, it is great they have a lot of articles, gaining at the rate of about
100 a day... but wow can we even say that this project NPOV when all the
stories are bot imported, and never touched by human hands?

Food for thought.
-- 
Jon
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