On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:08:10PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
Considering Wikinews was started and pushed heavily by Erik Moller (early on he was personally bailing people up at wikimeets to get them to contribute to it), I suggest your analysis is on crack^W^W^Whypothesises too much cause for what is *entirely* explicable by a small community going insular and going for perceived quality over outreach.
When Erik started working for the WMF, I think he had to go more hands-off due to COI. GNSM sort of was symptomatic of that.
That said, the heavyweight structure was already coming in years ago, I actually managed to cut my teeth on denting it once. (I documented the pattern I used at [[:EN:WP:BRD]] ).
I haven't tracked wikinews as well as I would have liked to, of late. <scratches head>
sincerely, Kim Bruning