[Wikinews-l] We've been forked! [fwd from foundation-l]

[Brian McNeil]

Ah, a couple of clicks on random page reveals seeding with VoA content.

The list of users I saw at casual inspection should manage pretty well
for quality writing from themselves.

The review policy seems *very* casual; and, makes no really clear and
emphatic mention of checking for copyvio.

I note Brad Patrick asking the "where's the money going" question.
(heh).

A spectacularly remarkable resemblance to the enWN main page, but with a
logo I find a bit,... "ugh" (the original Wikinews one was crap too,
admittedly).

When there was discussion of enWN forking off from the WMF it was with
the intent to take the name and marks, seek VC (I'll not go into that
on-list), and fund "proper" OR/investigative journalism.

I see the site (well, wiki to be exact) essentially set up on Sept 4th.
The domain was probably then, or within the following week. It's on the
same host as techessentials.org (Joe there seemed to be having a few
problems late August - http://pastebin.com/ZJiX1hGA).

They're looking to fund themselves via TE running their own advertising
programme, and receipt of donations.

It might well work; simply reproducing VoA content and getting ad-clicks
from that could well cover the cost of hosting the wiki through the
initial days. But, only time will tell.

I can only comment on a few of the contributors I see there; they may
well face similar decline as Wikinews did in the past when noticable
numbers of contributors have headed off to college/uni and had zero free
time.

In the words of the ancient Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting
times".


On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 14:30 -0700, Jon Davis wrote:
> Interesting Interesting.  We talked of this many times, I'll be there
> watching to see how it goes.  
> 
> 
> Are there plans to implement all those fun tech toys we always wanted
> but never got?
> 
> 
> -Jon 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:11, bawolff <bawolff+wn at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Tempodivalse and some other folks have started a fork of
>         Wikinews.
>         Thought I'd forward since it may be of interest to some folks.
>         
>         Personally I'm interested to see where this goes and if they
>         have
>         success. At the end of the day, the more free content material
>         that
>         exists in the world the better, regardless of where it is
>         created.
>         
>         
>         Cheers.
>         -bawolff
>         
>         
>         Fwd from foundation-l
>         >
>         > Greetings everyone,
>         >
>         > I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large
>         portion of WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own
>         project (http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply
>         dissatisfied with Wikinews. The new wiki has finished its
>         creation stage and is about ready to publish news articles.
>         >
>         > At least nine users have pledged to support this fork, and
>         several others (including non-WN Wikimedians) are interested -
>         more than there are active remaining Wikinews contributors.
>         >
>         > -Tempodivalse
>         >
>         >
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