There has now been a vote, organized by Formulax, among Chinese language Wikimedians on whether there should be a Chinese Wikinews. The results are at: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%B… In an amusing demonstration of the problems of voting, there were 13 votes opposed to the project, 13 votes in support, and 1 vote with support only if compromises could be made about NPOV. There was a larger vote earlier on whether this should be up to the global community to decide, or to the Chinese community. That vote was inconclusive, too, with opinions evenly split (50% want it to be a global decision, 50% want it to be a local decision) and very strong expressions of emotions on both sides. We can continue voting until we get a nice result, but I think it would be best now for the board to make a decision about this. My recommendation is a compromise: the project should go ahead under somewhat more rigid conditions (at least 10 support votes with at least 6 of them from Wikimedia regulars PLUS the process at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_language_pre-launch ). We can deal with problems of censorship as they arise. Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l