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(a)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:Rece… 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_Silv…
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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Jon
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