On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:07 +0100, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Today I've noticed creation of the account on sr.wn which means "Jobs
> Serbia". It is obviously that it is an account from some portal which
> is used for job advertisement. Instantly I've got an idea: to offer to
> that portal to make one page per day for linking the job offerings. It
> is useful and it is relevant to many Wikinews readers, as well as it
> may make Wikinews more relevant to its readers.
>
> But, I've started to think further... To allow original advertisements
> or to require linking to a relevant site? For some time I was thinking
> that it is better not to allow original content related to
> advertisement, but, after all, I think that it is about wiki and wiki
> should allow that. At last, advertisement is the part of almost all
> daily newspapers and why not to put it on Wikinews, too?
>
> Further, advertisement may be about a lot of fields, not just about
> jobs. It may be about housing, cars, whatever...
>
> So, the question is where to stop? At the beginning and not do that at
> all or to allow every [legal] advertisement? Or something between?
>
> At one side, it is not so relevant at the English language area: there
> is Craigslist for that. In many other language areas such portals
> don't exist and they don't have a lot of chances for success because
> there are not enough of users who would be willing to use one
> specialized site for that kind of advertisement.
>
> At the other side, it is relevant as a concept for en.wn and other
> Wikinews editions. If it becomes successful as a model, it may bring
> new quality and many more users.
>
> You may guess that I am very interested for that idea :) However, I
> think that it is very possible that I am inside of a small minority.
> Tell me what do you think about that and, more important, which
> problems may we have? (BTW, yes, it is about spreading free
> information and I don't think that it is against WMF's goals.)