Do we want the Wikipedia news people? They'd need to put in a lot more effort - at the moment they just make 2-3 sentences from an item that is being included in Wikipedia, and their work appears on the 8th most popular site on the Internet.
Wikinews does okay having a link above the crease on WP's main page. Selling a link like that on the main page would probably be worth six figures, we're not capitalising on that. And we cannot order people from Wikipedia to work on Wikinews to do so. It is like the meta discussion on a global BLP, we don't want told what we can and can't write, let alone even risk it. WP people involved with their news section would not take kindly to being told to do a full report on Wikinews.
Brian.
-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jason Safoutin Sent: 25 May 2009 21:53 To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'
That can already be done easily as it is now. Those who write the news on WP can write the news on WP. It should not be a matter of popularity, but a matter of getting out the most information, the easiest, quickest way possible, with as much *collaboration *as possible. As it is, with the contributions on WP for the news, we are not collaborating we are competing. It may or may not be an intentional competition but is its one. It seems the only time we get any contributors from WP is when they do something to piss everyone else off. When the incident is settled, they go back to writing news on WP...the same news that they were just writing on WN. So I am just lost as to what exactly the point of all this would be? Its like taking what WMF stands for and ignoring it because something may or may not be as popular as it was before.