On 22/12/2007, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Dmcdevit dmcdevit@cox.net wrote:
Brian McNeil wrote:
I have forwarded this message onto Wikinews-l. If
you have any Japanese
contributors that want to work on doing an article
for en.wikinews I'd be
delighted to help out, polish English, and put
them on the right track.
I would *much* prefer a press release or similar action by the WMF than a Wikinews article. I am always uneasy by Wikinews' frequent articles about Wikimedia, which doesn't square with the NPOV, and it doesn't seem to be getting better.
Dominic
Wikinews is a wiki. Volunteers are going to write about what interests them. I hope the article itself is written in an un-biased way, but you are really strecthing NPOV beyond credibility to say dictates whether an article can *exist* or not. By your measure en.WP violates NPOV because it covers a greater precentage of American towns than Japanese towns.
Not quite. I think a better comparison would be if en.wp had a different measure of notability for WMF-related topics compared to general. When it comes to news, what journalists choose to write about shows their judgement about what is important. Wikinews' disproportionate coverage of Wikimedia-related topics suggests that a different measure of notability or importance is used. Of course it's inappropriate to say something like "Wikinews can never write about WMF" but maybe there should be some guidelines encouraging wikinewsies to cover stories in proportion to their relevance or importance or whatever... well, maybe it is this:
from http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Content_guide "News is relevant. Being Wikinews — global and Internet-based — stories about local news may need to have their relevance explained for our international audience. Stories should appeal to a large number of people."
Would Wikinews write this story if the winner was YouTube?
Maybe Brian should sometimes funnel his considerable enthusiasm to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases rather than Wikinews.
cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise