I believe there are enough participants to start a Scandinavian Wikinews at this point (There are 11 signatures on the list):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition#Scandinavian_.28...
May I propose a logo for the upcoming WikiNews? :) http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:SkanWikiNytt-logo.png
Regards Kurt http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brukar:Kurtber
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:52:28 +0200, Kurt-Rune Bergset kurtber@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are enough participants to start a Scandinavian Wikinews at this point (There are 11 signatures on the list):
The idea is interesting, but since there already is a Swedish wikinews, it would basically mean that there are only danish, nynorsk and bokmål involved. I can see that it will take a lohg time before gettin a nynorsk page, but the other ones should be pretty ready quite soon after a scaninavian one anyway.
I would however propose that all four wikis share the same frontpage, if possible. Or at least parts of it. The international listings, and then have one listing each for denmark, norway and sweden, for example.
Also, what is the languge code for skandinavian?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition#Scandinavian_.28...
May I propose a logo for the upcoming WikiNews? :) http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:SkanWikiNytt-logo.png
Regards Kurt http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brukar:Kurtber _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
Hi,
since this is a significant difference from the way we are currently doing things, I believe there needs to be a vote on this first. Please organize a vote on Meta on whether the Scandinavian Wikinewses should be separate, or united, and announce it widely, especially on the sv.wikinews.org Village Pump.
If there's a majority in support for a united Scandinavian Wikinews, we can use sv.wikinews.org for it.
All best,
Erik
I guess there are no language codes for scandinavian, as it's not a language, but we could use something like "skan.wikinews"?
REFERENDRUM If there is to be a referendrum on wethere to make a Scandinavian Wikinews, it is important to announce it on the different scandinavian (norwegian (bokmål), norwegian (nynorsk), danish and swedish) wikipedias too, as norwegians and danes does not have their own wikinews'.
Then again; I can't see why we should vote on wether to have separate scandinavian wikinews-editions when it is obvious that the one we have (the swedish) is thriving?
VISIONS FOR SKANWIKINYTT I don't belive anyone has suggested making a Scandinavian Wikinews IN STEAD OF national wikinews-editions in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Personally I see the Scandinavian Wikinews as a cooperation in the scandinavian wiki-community.
When SkanWikiNytt (or something like that) has been running for a while, it will hopefully have gained members from Denmark and Norway, thus making a ground for creating a danish and norwegian wikinews. The swedish wikinews seems to be thriving, and I would NOT want to stop that project, by using sv.wikinews for a scandinavian wikinews portal!
When we have wikinews-editions in all three countries, the Scandinavian Wikinews will have its function in being a portal for making "top stories" from all scandinavian wikis (norwegian, danish and swedish) available to the public. Making scandinavian news available to those who are used to only national news.
Idealistic regards! Kurt
On Mar 31, 2005 8:22 PM, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
since this is a significant difference from the way we are currently doing things, I believe there needs to be a vote on this first. Please organize a vote on Meta on whether the Scandinavian Wikinewses should be separate, or united, and announce it widely, especially on the sv.wikinews.org Village Pump.
If there's a majority in support for a united Scandinavian Wikinews, we can use sv.wikinews.org for it.
All best,
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