[Foundation-l] Social issues for the newer projects

[Gerard Meijssen]

Dan Grey wrote:

>--- SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Michael, thanks for starting such an interesting
>>thread. 
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>>On 7/7/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
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>>>So, in that respect, Wikinews is quickly growing
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>>beyond the point where
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>>>the effect you mention is highly significant. I
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>>also think that in terms
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>>>of "quality content", the community has produced
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>>some excellent material
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>>>so far - on par with the best Wikipedia has to
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>>offer.
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>>Surely you exaggerate.  The pinnacle of Wikinews
>>content is still a
>>hasty, impressionist memo next to Wikipedia's
>>nuanced and excellent
>>monographs.
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>>But that's just my opinion
>>Cheers,
>>   SJ
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>Now really, I must take issue here.
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>Every Wikinews article is npov, fully referenced, and
>fully fact-checked. Only a handful of Wikipedia
>articles, compared to the bulk, are written to such a
>high quality.
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>Dan
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Hoi,
I do not take issue but want to note to a discrepantion. What you 
describe may be true for the en.wikinews but if it is true it is 
certainly not true for all the other Wikinews projects. I sincerely hope 
that the other projects will be a success. But there is still a lot of 
growing to do.

The London bombing had a positive effect on the Dutch Wikinews as well. 
I hope we do not need many of these incidents to make the other Wikinews 
sites a success too.

Thanks,
   GerardM