But George we do have pointers from Wikipedia to Wikisource, Wikiquote, and so on.
Wikinews is sort of the red-headed stepchild of the entire collective. It's been
going for years and yet only has 15,000 English-language articles. That's probably
smaller even than Citizendium.
The failure is even more severe when a project is so small that it can be dominated by a
clique of people pushing power-plays to silence opponents. That is simply in my mind
anathema to our entire structure. When a club becomes an effective tool, used by those in
power against those not, than a project should be shut down.
Will Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
[...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia "Reliable Source" as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers from Wikipedia to Wikinews is to be expected.
(I leave the rest of the case for others to debate).
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
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