On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As long as the wikipedia article actually links the
wikinews page and
doesn't just redirect to a more general subject (or worse, show as
blank).
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
should
the en-wiki be
encouraging the 'news' type items over to Wikinews, or embracing them as a
core strength of the project....
I'd say news ought to be kept on Wikinews. Wikipedia reporting on
current affairs tends to result in timeline articles and new bits keep
getting added to the end. Major events tend to get enough attention
that someone sooner or later refactors them into decent articles, but
lesser (but still notable) events get left as "As of 17th April, ... .
As of 18th April, ... . As of the afternoon of 18th April, ... . etc".
Reporting the news on Wikinews and then writing a quality article
after the fact would result in Wikinews getting the attention it
deserves and Wikipedia getting good encyclopaedic articles.
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I would see nothing wrong, in that instance, with a soft-redirect page
saying something to the effect of "Please see the news article for
this event on Wikinews (insert link here)", if that really is the
appropriate thing to redirect to. Other times, it may have to be
mentioned on a disambiguation page or the like. And if we do wind up
with an article on a "flash in the pan" event that turns out not to be
appropriate for an encyclopedia article, we could always redirect it
to the Wikinews archive in the same way. Benefits Wikinews (by making
sure it gets eyeballs), benefits us (by making sure we -don't- get
those types of articles and that news stays on the project designed to
work with it).
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