[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[Ivay Martínez]

I speak from the perspective of an administrator in the Spanish edition. The
fact that today Wikinews is not sufficiently relevantly, does not mean that
in the future will be equal. The project has unique values ​​and
possibilities in the future may be successful.

It is true that even within the same community of Wikipedia editors we are
treated as peripheral, but the success of projects depends not only on
the internal
work that is in them, but promotion we ourselves do it. And it does not
depend on whether Wikimedia treat us well or not.

I hope that this fork is the result of the search for a project with clear
objectives and specific goals, not the fight between a group of editors and
other. If this is the case, however much success.

2011/9/12 MZMcBride <z en mzmcbride.com>

> David Gerard wrote:
> > Wikinews is still recoverable. But what it's been doing so far clearly
> > failed. What can they do that would work? Open it up further?
>
> Sage Ross once discussed with me the idea of having Wikinews be foremost a
> source of news about the Internet. It could report on news and goings-on on
> various Web sites. The idea made the idea of Wikinews almost seem
> redeemable
> to me, though I'm not sure how much it falls within Wikimedia's scope.
> Perhaps he'll chime in here to elaborate, as I'm surely not doing the
> concept justice.
>
> If Wikinews had started as a site with news about the Internet and
> particularly online communities, I think it would've grown into a proper
> project over time. Instead, it primarily regurgitates news stories from
> elsewhere and outputs them under a free license, which there doesn't seem
> to
> be much of a market for. Some of the Wikinews interviews have been
> impressive, but beyond those, there isn't much to speak of after seven
> years
> online.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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-- 
*Atentamente:

Iván Martínez
Coordinador General
Wikimedia México
mx.wikimedia.org

Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. *