[Foundation-l] Wikipedia and Wikinews

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Who is going to do this automation ? Is this the functionality that has the
highest priority or have other wanted features more gravity?
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Dec 19, 2007 5:58 PM, Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> If there is a policy to lockdown article contents after 10 days, why
> isn't it automated?
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 6:54 PM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> > Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >
> > >Is Wikinews an acceptable source for Wikipedia? The same reasoning
> > >that stops it appearing on Google News would seem to make it
> > >inappropriate for Wikipedia too.
> >
> > It should be - if the article is about a week old. I've probably
> protected
> > more pages than anyone else as part of Wikinews' archiving policy. When
> our
> > stuff is 7-10 days old it should be fully locked down and no content
> edits
> > allowed. With that policy and an open edit history I believe that when
> an
> > article gets to the archived state it should be a credible source for
> > Wikipedia - if not before.
> >
> > There are a handful of templates on Wikipedia for linking to Wikinews
> > articles, they serve in a limited way to advertise the existence of the
> > project, but there is no {{breaking-help-Wikinews}} template to add to
> > articles that are in the news.
> >
> >
> > Brian McNeil
> >
> >
> >
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