Forwarded message from Erik Moeller via Foundation-l:

This page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews

now contains five basic requirements for the launch of Wikinews, as outlined in my previous message: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-October/001228.html

Most specific policy ideas have been moved to

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Thinktank

and are considered non-binding, should the project be approved. This allows us to evaluate whether the community wants Wikinews to start, and to let us then concentrate on how to do it, using the ideas we have collected as inspiration. The vote will take place on:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote

starting October 22, 2004, 20:00 UTC. Until then, I ask people to translate these pages into other languages. I have also put this call for translations on [[m:Translation requests]]. Is there any other page I should use?

On October 22, I will announce the vote in many places to get as much interest as possible.

Regards,

Erik