[Foundation-l] Re: Intent to launch pt., pl., ro. Wikinews; further procedure

[Anthere]

No, please keep it to the procedure we agreed upon just a couple of days 
ago.

When I suggested that we added this requirement of "activity", there 
were two reasons

* activity shows interest, so avoid missed launches such as the french 
wikinews one

* past activity of at least 2 editors on a wikipedia (for example) 
indicates that at least 2 editors are aware of our basic principles and 
in particular NPOV requirement.

Again, the is a security measure. If 5 people, not even one oldby on one 
of our project, decide to  launch a wikinews with no experience at all, 
there is rather high risk that some of our principles are not respected; 
and since it is not in a language we necessarily manage, it might go on 
for a long time.

You mentionned yourself that wikinews was a tricky project, with rather 
serious liability issues. I agree with this. And this is just as much a 
reason to avoid launching by people who just happened to visit a couple 
of days sooner and found the concept great. We need at least 2 
experienced people.

Anthere




Erik Moeller a écrit:
> As per the procedure on
> 
>    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition
> 
> I'd like to launch three new editions later today or tomorrow: 
> Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian. For Portuguese, I count Carlosar as a 
> valid vote, because he has made 3000+ edits on the English Wikinews, and 
> he is a native speaker.
> 
> For future editions, I'd also like to suggest changing the language 
> procedure in the following way:
> 
>    The "activity on existing Wikimedia projects" requirement can be
>    dropped if a few support pages (FAQ, Mission Statement, etc.) are
>    created on Meta for the project to be launched. These can be
>    translations or original creations.
> 
> Such an effort indicates a genuine interest in working on a Wikinews 
> edition in a language. It also reduces the dependency of new projects on 
> existing ones -- we already know that many key people working on 
> Wikinews have not done substantial work on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia 
> projects. There would still be a requirement of at least 5 signatures, 
> so it's not just one person playing an overarching role.
> 
> If this works out, perhaps we can substitute one procedure for another; 
> I prefer the translation procedure, because it also makes sure that 
> certain pages are in place before the wiki is set up (a problem on some 
> new editions which were essentially blank for several days).
> 
> I'd like to credit the Memory Alpha wiki for this procedure, which has 
> successfully used it for setting up new languages.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik