On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:33 PM James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to popularity per Alexa:
Wikipedia is 5th Wikimedia is 276 (includes both Commons and Wikispecies) Wiktionary is 432 Wikibooks is 1,892 Wikisource is 2,790 Wikiquote is 3,953 Wikidata is 8,848 Wikiversity is 9,372 (includes Wiki Journals) Wikivoyage is 14,850 Wikinews is 60,829
There are 644 million websites. That means all our sites are doing fairly well relatively. Wiki Journals are hoping to split off to become their own sister site. The Wiki Journals accept primary research and than subject it to peer review. Might make sense to merge Wikinews into such a site. Of course would require consensus.
hey what brilliant idea! i'd support merging wikinews into a something like wikijournal. besides the more traditional ways like preprint server or mail, i'd find it especially charming if one option of peer review is the wiki-way, via "tag the quality and the type", maybe even allow different groups to set such tags. and not (only) the wikinews way, or, ironically, the nupedia way, where an editor decides "publish or not", and articles get stuck into a "preprint", "private", "sandbox" namespace. is this something which you think might work?
rupert