On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:52:48 +0100, Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote:
On 31 Dec 2004, at 02:14, James R. Johnson wrote:
That's a good idea there...en.wikinews.uk or en.wikinews.usa sound good.
'''Oppose.''' Beware of balkanization. The above proposal would lead to a situation where people would not only just read about the so-called "locally relevant" issues that interest them, but it would probably very soon also lead to the respective wikis mostly containing the locally predominant POV
Please don't leap to conclusions. If you read what I wrote (which is what James was replying to), I *did not* suggest having wikinews sites specific to a country *and* language. Aside from the obvious POV issues, this would be a complete waste of time simply because of duplication of effort.
My suggestion was that, for example, en.wikinews.ca could redirect to a particular page about Canadian news in the English wikinews site, such as http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Canada.
These locale index pages would just be regular wikinews pages. Their purpose would be to serve as a collection of links to news stories relevant to a particular country or locale. The stories they linked to would not themselves be tied to the locale in any way (and therefore subject to locale-specific POV issues); they would just be regular pages on en.wikinews.org.
I appreciate the need to avoid POV issues, but surely maintaining a collection of links to stories relevant to a specific locale serves a useful purpose.
regards,
Steve