[Wikinews-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

Samuel Klein sjklein at hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Sep 6 22:24:47 UTC 2011


Thread convergence!  Wikinewsies invited to chime in on foundation-l.  SJ


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From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against
non-Western articles on Wikinews
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


On 6 September 2011 12:56, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:

> But as Tom say, online media has quickly found that the traditional
> editorial process doesn't work so well on the internet. On the other hand
> the net does allow very quick rewrite & expansion for a developing story.
> It's this last step that WN perhaps hasn't learned or adopted yet.


So how to get there from here?

Is anyone from Wikinews reading this discussion?


- d.

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