User RichardF from English Wikipedia came over to Wikinews asking if there was any way to automatically include links to Wikinews articles in Category/Topic portals on Wikipedia.
With a very short delay, user slackr (also on en.wp) has devised a bot, which will take the output of DPLs on portal sub-pages on Wikinews and format it into a template for use on the corresponding WP portal. One example would be en.wp's television portal.
As this has all been a case of IRC and talk page "who do I ask?" stuff this possibly hasn't had a lot of publicity. Although, on the Wikinews mailing list there has been some enthusiasm and a suggestion it would be very useful on other language project pairs.
I think this has a lot of potential - depending on where it is used. At least on the English Wikinews many articles are primarily the work of one contributor, Virginia Tech and the London bombings are obvious exceptions to this. It also has the obvious advantage that with an appropriate "update this list" invitation can increase Wikipedia contributors writing on the Wikinews project.
So far we've had one French contributor say they'd like it on their wiki, I suspect the Polish would be interested in it too, IIRC they have a deal to dual-license some news from another source who'll also pick up their coverage. Not so sure about the ."derivative". logo on their front page though. http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna .
Brian McNeil
Brian McNeil wrote:
With a very short delay, user slackr (also on en.wp) has devised a bot, which will take the output of DPLs on portal sub-pages on Wikinews and format it into a template for use on the corresponding WP portal. One example would be en.wp's television portal. ----
I have incorrectly attributed the creation of this bot, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikinews_Importer_Bot
Brian McNeil
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