[Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 4 23:32:15 UTC 2009


----- WJhonson at aol.com wrote: 
> 
> ... Few to no Wikipedia articles 
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. 

How about: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Treaty#Signing 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87#Arrest_and_trial 

or indeed the nearly 3,000 other articles listed at: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Wikinews&limit=500 

> And I submit that 
> no outside agency points at Wikinews articles for anything. 

Google News has started to link to stories in both Wikipedia and Wikinews, depending on individuals' profiles. 

Andrew 


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