I wholeheartedly disagree with using any wikinews namespace for any form of advertisement - including internal ads.
Press releases are not news - they are advertising.
A better location would be the wikimedia.org site - a wonderfully already biased site dedicated to the promotion of all things wiki.
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-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Amgine Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:05 AM To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikinews as Wikimedia press room
This is how I understood the proposal.
On en.Wikinews we are using Portal: namespace to create areas of news concentrated on a specific topic. It would be easy enough to create a Portal:Wikimedia for press releases about Wikimedia, with new press releases created as Portal:Wikimedia/Press release date/Title or similar naming convention, to keep them out of the main namespace.
Another option for en.Wikinews would be to create a portal-like page under the Wikinews: namespace, perhaps Wikinews:Wikimedia Foundation press releases. Similar idea for naming the press releases.
We could not run them as articles, but I believe we can host WMF press releases so long as they are not in the main namespace.
Amgine
Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
Okay, wait, maybe I misunderstood you.
Do you want to put all Wikimedia press releases on Wikinews, instead of putting them in the so called "press rooms"?
-- Regards, Datrio
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