Wikinews Importer Bot has helped improve the amount of links incoming to Wikinews' Main Page and to individual Wikinews articles - Perhaps not directly from en.wikipedia's Main Page itself - but certainly from Portal pages, and pretty prominently at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Brian McNeil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org">brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do we want the Wikipedia news people? They'd need to put in a lot more<br>
effort - at the moment they just make 2-3 sentences from an item that is<br>
being included in Wikipedia, and their work appears on the 8th most popular<br>
site on the Internet.<br>
<br>
Wikinews does okay having a link above the crease on WP's main page. Selling<br>
a link like that on the main page would probably be worth six figures, we're<br>
not capitalising on that. And we cannot order people from Wikipedia to work<br>
on Wikinews to do so. It is like the meta discussion on a global BLP, we<br>
don't want told what we can and can't write, let alone even risk it. WP<br>
people involved with their news section would not take kindly to being told<br>
to do a full report on Wikinews.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
Brian.<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Sent: 25 May 2009 21:53<br>
To: Wikinews mailing list<br>
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'<br>
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That can already be done easily as it is now. Those who write the news<br>
on WP can write the news on WP. It should not be a matter of popularity,<br>
but a matter of getting out the most information, the easiest, quickest<br>
way possible, with as much *collaboration *as possible. As it is, with<br>
the contributions on WP for the news, we are not collaborating we are<br>
competing. It may or may not be an intentional competition but is its<br>
one. It seems the only time we get any contributors from WP is when they<br>
do something to piss everyone else off. When the incident is settled,<br>
they go back to writing news on WP...the same news that they were just<br>
writing on WN. So I am just lost as to what exactly the point of all<br>
this would be? Its like taking what WMF stands for and ignoring it<br>
because something may or may not be as popular as it was before.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jason Safoutin<br>
Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator<br>
<a href="mailto:jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org">jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org</a><br>
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<br>
<br>
Brian McNeil wrote:<br>
> I would agree were Wikinews a far, far more active project. In such<br>
> circumstances Wikinews would do the news, and it would be filtered to a<br>
> small section on the Wikipedia main page.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Brian.<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
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> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org">wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org</a>] On Behalf Of Jason<br>
Safoutin<br>
> Sent: 25 May 2009 20:01<br>
> To: Wikinews mailing list<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'<br>
><br>
> I have my stance on Wikipedia and the news section. Wikipedia is an<br>
> online encyclopedia. Not a news site. Whether or not it was around<br>
> before Wikinews makes no difference. The mere fact that Wikipedia has a<br>
> news section, makes it almost like Wikinews is to compete with them.<br>
> There would be no real problem, other than those who would scream about<br>
> it, to move the Wikipedia news to Wikinews. There would be nothing lost<br>
> on Wikipedia, given the fact Wikinews and WP are run by the same<br>
> foundation and are all sister projects. I hear the same argument of<br>
> "Wikinews is not a reliable news site", but there is no logical reason<br>
> for Wikipedia to have a news section. It just seems, in my opinion, that<br>
> having it on Wikipedia, just takes one of the fundamental goals of WMF<br>
> away: collaboration.<br>
><br>
><br>
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