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
site - a wonderfully already
biased site dedicated to the promotion of all things wiki.
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David Speakman
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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Amgine
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:05 AM
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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"?
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Regards,
Datrio
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