Today I've noticed creation of the account on sr.wn which means "Jobs
Serbia". It is obviously that it is an account from some portal which
is used for job advertisement. Instantly I've got an idea: to offer to
that portal to make one page per day for linking the job offerings. It
is useful and it is relevant to many Wikinews readers, as well as it
may make Wikinews more relevant to its readers.
But, I've started to think further... To allow original advertisements
or to require linking to a relevant site? For some time I was thinking
that it is better not to allow original content related to
advertisement, but, after all, I think that it is about wiki and wiki
should allow that. At last, advertisement is the part of almost all
daily newspapers and why not to put it on Wikinews, too?
Further, advertisement may be about a lot of fields, not just about
jobs. It may be about housing, cars, whatever...
So, the question is where to stop? At the beginning and not do that at
all or to allow every [legal] advertisement? Or something between?
At one side, it is not so relevant at the English language area: there
is Craigslist for that. In many other language areas such portals
don't exist and they don't have a lot of chances for success because
there are not enough of users who would be willing to use one
specialized site for that kind of advertisement.
At the other side, it is relevant as a concept for en.wn and other
Wikinews editions. If it becomes successful as a model, it may bring
new quality and many more users.
You may guess that I am very interested for that idea :) However, I
think that it is very possible that I am inside of a small minority.
Tell me what do you think about that and, more important, which
problems may we have? (BTW, yes, it is about spreading free
information and I don't think that it is against WMF's goals.)