Scríobh Eric Moeller:
There has now been a vote, organized by Formulax, among Chinese language Wikimedians on whether there should be a Chinese Wikinews.
I think it's interesting, but I hope that the board would withdraw support for a Wikinews that would have as a central plank of policy, a rule which conflicts with NPOV. Unfortunately, the Chinese government suppressing an NPOV Chinese-language news site is a very real possibility. I think that no zh.wikinews is still a better option than a zh.wikinews that panders to the communist government.
With that said, what other Chinese-language resources are there on the Internet? I still think that a free, NPOV Chinese-language news site could be a valuable resource, even if it gets blocked within the PRC, for Chinese people living abroad, and in democratic countries where large numbers of people can read the language (Singapore, Taiwan, etc). So, it could still be a useful thing, even if it gets censored within communist China.
But a Wikinews in any language that has "exceptions" to NPOV? No thanks!
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