I can't speak for the entire Wikinews community, but a lot of it was the lack of technical assistance. There was one major item which Wikinews _really_ need to be even remotely useful and it was very difficult to get any help at all. Eventually the community wrote the extension themselves but couldnt get the dev's to review it appropriately. This was drawn out over several years, and (at least from my view) the Foundation really started to turn around and give much better support starting about 1 year ago.
There is also a host of other backend and support style related issues... but they are ones that the Foundation really wasn't well equipped to handle in the first place. Simply put, the Wikinews concept needs a much more specific set of assistance than the general "Here's a wiki, have fun".
-Jon
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:14, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:59:34PM -0400, Chris Lee wrote:
I didn't mean what is a fork, or how to fork etc...
I meant more along the lines of the difference in scope, guidelines. Why
did
they break off?
For starters, they weren't happy with the server maintenance by WMF. They couldn't get essential components deployed for 2 years or so.
I'm not sure what the entire set of circumstances was. Someone should probably do a debrief and postmortem.
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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