I stand by Jon here, and seriously call into question the NPOV of this
project. The articles are coming, more or less, copy and pasted from BETA
OTS and VOA.
Let's be honest, if I came across this community, I wouldn't want to stick
around much, let alone join it. Aside from two bots, there doesn't seem much
to a community.
These are my, admittedly quick, thoughts.
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Jon Davis
wiki@konsoletek.com wrote:
> This might seem a little callous against our SR brethren, but SRWN is
> dead. Take a look at Recent Changes
>
http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE:Recen... It is a serious fight to find anything happening that isn't a bot. Yes,
> the article count is increasing, scarily so... but that is only because news
> is being copied wholesale from other sites. In the end, 99.9% of their
> articles never get touched by a human.
>
> Take a look at
>
http://sr.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Hju_D%C5%BEekmen_i_Ali%C5%A1a_Silve... example. One bot uploads it, another fixes it... that's the entire
> wiki.
>
> The real truth in death I think comes from the Wikimedia Stats page:
>
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaSR.htm - Take a
> look at the new reporters chart. The last new reporter they had was in
> December.
>
> Sure, it is great they have a lot of articles, gaining at the rate of about
> 100 a day... but wow can we even say that this project NPOV when all the
> stories are bot imported, and never touched by human hands?
>
> Food for thought.
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