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