On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tempodivalse r2d2.strauss@verizon.net wrote:
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
Hi Tempodivalse,
Thanks for the notice! I also wish OpenGlobe luck.
I went looking for discussion about this on Wikinews, and couldn't find anything recent about this on the wikinews mailing list, the English-language Wikinews (I didn't check the other languages) or on Meta. I'm sure I just missed something. Can you point us to any discussion links?
Thanks! Phoebe