Hello Jacques,
glad to see you participating on the mailing list. I hope you can get some more people from the French community to join.
many thinks that wikinews is outside wikipedia "way of life" so reject the project (no editor freedom,...)
They forget that If the creator of wikinews, the living WIKI God himself, said something about the way people may write articles, may use a workflow or templates and so on, it's just ideas, draft framework, draft blue print, ... it's not LAW, it's just a ... 'what do you think of that' .
i think, am I wrong Erik ???
Well, first of all, I'm sure there are many misconceptions about how Wikinews presently operates. There currently is _no_ review process on the English Wikinews. You can immediately start writing articles and put them on the Main Page when they're finished. If there are any problems, the articles are tagged, as described here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Article_flags
So, Wikinews operates pretty much like Wikipedia. One difference on the English Wikinews is that we protect articles after a couple of weeks.
Secondly, yes, all policies on the English Wikinews or elesewhere are wiki-editable by everyone, and you're free to make up your own rules for the French Wikinews as you see fit. I personally have no special authority whatsoever about Wikinews policies.
I think that polish, french, spanish, italian, ... wikinews DONT HAVE TO FOLLOW editorial way from ENGLISH or GERMAN editions. -They could find they own ways,
Right.
to finish : French people HATE the need to add [[w:fr:WORD|WORD]] when you write with wikinews, it's so cool [[WORD]]
It should just be [[w:bla|bla]], I'll try to get this sorted out. A fine trick is to write [[w:bla|]] (note the pipe), which will become [[w:bla|bla]] after you save.
i stop otherwise I put 100 ideas a mail, not good, people don't read ...
I'll read. Please let me know what your ideas are.
PS : Eric, I do not use article namespace to write my article into fr:wikinews, so your number for french is a bit .... how to say .... hard here (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/State_of_the_Wiki) i think the number of articles is upper, much more.
I'm not sure I understand. Do you count the short paragraphs on the Main Page as articles? I think it wouldn't be fair to the other editions to count these as articles, though if fr.wikinews.org keeps writing articles in that fashion, we may have to find a way to statistically measure it properly.
All best,
Erik