Dan Grey wrote:
On 27/08/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
It was discussed on the mailing list. The only reason I added this to the agenda was that I realised there had been discussion about this on the Wikinews list starting over two weeks ago that had not yet been resolved. Details are in this thread: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-August/000286.html
There's about four people on the mailing list. It has near-zero traffic as we're still small enough for *all* discussion to be kept on the wiki.
The wiki is only the english wiki. And for once, it would be nice that a decision for a project is not done entirely by its english version. Suggestion : please advertise this mailing list so that more editors participate to it.
The page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License says arguments will be collected until August 17.
I have no idea who made that page - and certainly word of its existence was never circulated.
Erik. One probably goes back from the time Wikinews concept was being discussed. The second one is recent and an attempt to make a decision.
Since that was 10 days ago, it seems overdue for a decision to be made, or at least for it to be put on the agenda so more people are aware of it. An older discussion is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License_straw_poll
I had a look at that the other day. The vast majority of the "votes" there are from 2004. What's more noticeable though is that hardly any of the users on that page actually are Wikinews contributors. To sum, nothing on that page is relevant to the situation today.
Dan
Best I can then suggest is that you organise such a vote and advertise it in ALL languages wikinews. Are you ready to do this for us ? It would be nice that the community makes a suggestion, which will be approved or not by the board, in the way new projects are.
What do you think ?
Anthere