2009/12/1 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org I've decided that now is a *very* appropriate time to, once again, try and restart discussion on Wikipedia paying more than lipservice to Wikinews as the appropriate venue for news coverage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Brian_McNeil#.22Recent.22_templates
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:35 -0500, Alexandr Romanov wrote:
The examples look good to me. One suggestion, maybe link "Wikipedia is not a news site" to WP:NOTNEWS ?
I think this is a point for Bawolff to chip in...
There are a few special pieces of Javascript active on enWN which try to detect incoming Wikipedians and caution them about editing on Wikinews, i.e. articles are a "snapshot", not to be encyclopedic, &c.
IIRC the flow is as such:
1. User reads Wikipedia article, sees link to Wikinews article 2. User clicks link, reads Wikinews article 3. User selects to edit Wikinews article, a custom WP-specific edit intro is displayed.
Any intermediate steps between 2 and 3 will see the "Referrer:" lost and the custom edit intro not displayed.
Oh, and as some will recall, {{Howdy} }[1] has a "quick guide" for Wikipedians; I'd really love Jimmy and Mike Peel's input on this.
[1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Howdy