On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Milos Rancic<
millosh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that we need such place for a couple of reasons:
> * Meta is "too Meta" for our needs. We need a meta site which would be
> regulated by Wikinewsians.
> * All coordination will be moved to that site: this includes, but it
> is not limited to:
> ** Organizing bot work.
> ** Organizing work related to cooperation: translations, contacts and similar.
> ** Accreditation process should be moved there.
> * In the future, we should make Template: namespace at that site which
> would be used by all Wikinews editions.
> * We may generate there a set of documents which would help to the new
> editions how to start a successful edition. BTW, as a LangCom member,
> a number of times I mentioned that not just localization of the
> messages should be enough for the project approval. Wikinews edition
> is the most problematic for approval because it needs constant work.
> So, as a LangCom member, I would like to see defined rules by
> Wikinewsians for new edition approval.
> * Similarly to
beta.wikiversity.org, Wikinews meta site may be used
> instead of Incubator: It would be much better if the process of
> creation of Wikinews edition would be monitored by Wikinewsians, not
> by contributors with just Wikipedian background. (While it is good
> enough formally to have contributors with just Wikipedian background
> for all other projects, Wikinews has very different needs than one
> repository of knowledge.)
> * Optionally, we may use something like
wiki.wikinewsie.org for that
> purpose; but it has a number of limits.
>
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