hi jimmy,
i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish
an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I
simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which
i find frightening. an editor for 10 years, tens of thousands
contributions, thousands of pages created, degree in journalism,
dissertation about news on wikipedia, administrator.[1]
jimmy, as wikinews refers an old mail of you from 2003 as the holy
grail of NPOV, could you please clarify once and for all that your
NPOV statemant you sent to wikien-l was valid for wikipedia. and not
for wikisource, wikiquote, wikinews. best on the wikinews talk page
concerning NPOV [2][4]. i understand of course that certain publishing
standards might apply - but NPOV, and "sourced" in the sense of
published somewhere else cannot be amongst them [3].
just as a note, i hate that the blog [5] opens 20 times slower than
wikinews on my mobile phone, that it is not in different languages,
that i do not have the "usual mediawiki features". i hate that
signpost [7] cannot be read on mobiles because of formatting. i hate
the glam newsletter [6] for the same reason, despite beeig again on a
different wiki, no "read in different languages". which is the main
reason i write this mail ... and asked joe why not using wikinews. and
i hate that wikinews does not use mediawiki features to properly
classify what quality an article has, e.g. "blog", "npov", etc.
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Foxj&project=en.wikipedia.org
[2]
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:Neutral_point_of_view#raphael_ho…
[3]
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Pillars_of_Wikinews_writing
[4]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-November/008096.html
[5] blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/
[6] glam newletter:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter
[7] signpost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
best,
rupert