[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[M. Williamson]

I do believe it means exactly that.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers includes all users with at
least 1 edit in the last 30 days; that seems like a really low threshold
though. I took the liberty of collecting some data based on that page:

- 23 users with at least 30 edits in the last 30 days (= average 1 edit/day)
- 8 users with at least 100 edits in the last 30 days
- 2 users with at least 300 edits in the last 30 days ("super active"):
Brian McNeil and Pi zero

I was a bit shocked to see these numbers myself. Seems rather low,
especially considering Wikinews is not like Wikipedia, where you only need a
handful of active users at one time to work on articles, but rather requires
high activity all the time to be a successful news outlet. English Wikinews
is, in my opinion, a failed project, at least currently. I have tried on
several occasions to switch to Wikinews as my primary news source, each time
I end up asking myself why on earth I did such a thing because it's almost
useless for people who want to stay informed about current events.

2011/9/12 Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Tempodivalse <r2d2.strauss at verizon.net
> >wrote:
>
> > At least nine users have pledged to support this fork, and several others
> > (including non-WN Wikimedians) are interested - more than there are
> active
> > remaining Wikinews contributors.
>
>
> Wait, does this mean that Wikinews had fewer than twenty active
> contributors
> prior to the fork?  Or am I horribly misinterpreting the statement here?
>
> Kirill
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