I am undecided as well about closing or not closing fr. There is one contributor to it. What worries me is that he is not a wikipedian, and seems to have strange ideas about npov. I tried to discuss it a bit with him... but basically, npov is not so much about "explanation", but rather more about "habit and precedent". Most learn and understand it by working with others. As he is alone.... I am dubious. But for now, content seems fine. It is essentially working along the same line that the french wikipedia current events.
So, the main drawback of its existence is for now a bad image propagated to french journalists; But well....
Ant
Jimmy Wales a écrit:
Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
Le Friday 15 April 2005 05:33, Andrew Lih a écrit :
Perhaps it's apparent to all parties, but could somone elaborate on "Given the struggles that some Wikinews projects have had already"?
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
I think that Jimbo refers to the French Wikinews which is still in beta with no real participant. There is still no consensus on what to do with this project within the French community. Some people proposed to close it untill there is a wider consensus.
Yes, this is what I had in mind. The French Wikinews was started according to existing policy, but clearly that policy is inadequate to ensure a proper launch with solid community support. When we were in Brussels a while back Delphine/notafish was making a valiant effort to get it going/get it organized/make it work, but to my knowledge this hasn't been successful.
I don't support closing it; I don't support keeping it open. I just think we should observe and learn from the process.
It's probably worth noting that a polarized community (as zh is) is of course different from a community which simply doesn't have people interested (fr, and I think some other existing wikinews). Zh might be successful just because it is controversial.
There are many many factors to consider in making these decisions.
--Jimb o