I'm very pleased that the technical solution I suggested and helped develop with Ilya has been implemented on Wikinews. The fact that it had been discussed and was in development before you changed the main page should, however, be mentioned Erik. Another is that it might not now be in existence if I had not written a crude implementation this afternoon and given it to Ilya.
I put the inputbox on the Main Page to demonstrate it.
When has it been okay to experiment on the main page of a live site without so much as an explanation to the regular contributors to that site?
I'm not opposed to the inputbox extension in and of itself; it's a slick piece of code which answers a need often expressed. I do not think it is appropriate to use a complex nested template as it is currently implemented, but that could be resolved by the community.
Wikipedia has no such dependencies. I follow a link and I start writing. If my article is not perfect, that's fine, because it's still linked from the right places. People can see it. People will eventually fix it for me. In general, there's less things to know, and less things that can go wrong.
This was the justification for the use of the manual list in addition to the automated list, until the additional functionality was coded. I used nearly the same words, in fact.
The governance issues are not the basic reason for the Open English proposal (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition)
There are currently 5 people supporting the creation of an Open English edition of Wikinews, which is obviously not entirely due to the recent differences regarding the DPL. Like any community at en.wikinews there are different opinions as to what the goals of the project may be, and some members of the community feel it is not going someplace they wish to continue to support. But we continue to support the larger goals of Wikinews, creating site where any human can contribute news, valuable in its own right, with an open decision-making process. And we would rather not leave the project, so an alternative edition which serves different goals would give us the opportunity to contribute without exacerbating strained working relationships.
Amgine