I agree, each language Wikinews is a relatively small community. We need to work cross-wiki on things like weather, oil prices, and other standard automated news website stuff. Bots that do things like create new day category pages should be moved over to the toolserver and set up to cover all language variants and appropriate interwiki links.
Craig Spurrier is currently drawing up plans to propose a Wikinews Foundation (name not decided). This will be purposed with the task of standing behind the reporters, verifying credentials, and so on. If that comes to fruition, I'll likely hand over the wikinewsie.org domain to the org.
Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic Sent: 14 November 2007 11:44 To: wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikinews internationalization
I think that Wikinews is small enough that it may avoid Wikipedia mistakes. The biggest one is Wikipedia's communities separation to language projects. So, I suggest next policies:
- One body at the organizational level. For example, wikinewsie.org should be a matter of all Wikinewsians; accreditations should be Wikinews-wide, not en.wn only; if there are offices in other parts of the world, they should function as offices of any other news agency. - The same policies. From basic ones (like NPOV is) via different procedures to, ideally, one place for voting for project admins. - The same methods at the technical level. If we have some bot for currency exchange rates, it should work all over the projects, not only on one.
There are a lot of bad things which may be avoided if we are functioning as one community, not as separate, language based communities.
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