Ah, a couple of clicks on random page reveals seeding with VoA content.
The list of users I saw at casual inspection should manage pretty well for quality writing from themselves.
The review policy seems *very* casual; and, makes no really clear and emphatic mention of checking for copyvio.
I note Brad Patrick asking the "where's the money going" question. (heh).
A spectacularly remarkable resemblance to the enWN main page, but with a logo I find a bit,... "ugh" (the original Wikinews one was crap too, admittedly).
When there was discussion of enWN forking off from the WMF it was with the intent to take the name and marks, seek VC (I'll not go into that on-list), and fund "proper" OR/investigative journalism.
I see the site (well, wiki to be exact) essentially set up on Sept 4th. The domain was probably then, or within the following week. It's on the same host as techessentials.org (Joe there seemed to be having a few problems late August - http://pastebin.com/ZJiX1hGA).
They're looking to fund themselves via TE running their own advertising programme, and receipt of donations.
It might well work; simply reproducing VoA content and getting ad-clicks from that could well cover the cost of hosting the wiki through the initial days. But, only time will tell.
I can only comment on a few of the contributors I see there; they may well face similar decline as Wikinews did in the past when noticable numbers of contributors have headed off to college/uni and had zero free time.
In the words of the ancient Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times".
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 14:30 -0700, Jon Davis wrote:
Interesting Interesting. We talked of this many times, I'll be there watching to see how it goes.
Are there plans to implement all those fun tech toys we always wanted but never got?
-Jon
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:11, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote: Tempodivalse and some other folks have started a fork of Wikinews. Thought I'd forward since it may be of interest to some folks.
Personally I'm interested to see where this goes and if they have success. At the end of the day, the more free content material that exists in the world the better, regardless of where it is created. Cheers. -bawolff Fwd from foundation-l > > Greetings everyone, > > I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project (http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews. The new wiki has finished its creation stage and is about ready to publish news articles. > > At least nine users have pledged to support this fork, and several others (including non-WN Wikimedians) are interested - more than there are active remaining Wikinews contributors. > > -Tempodivalse > > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l-- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ http://snowulf.com/ http://ipv6wiki.net/
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