[Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 But George we do have pointers from Wikipedia to Wikisource, Wikiquote, and so on.  Wikinews is sort of the red-headed stepchild of the entire collective.  It's been going for years and yet only has 15,000 English-language articles.  That's probably smaller even than Citizendium.

The failure is even more severe when a project is so small that it can be dominated by a clique of people pushing power-plays to silence opponents.  That is simply in my mind anathema to our entire structure.  When a club becomes an effective tool, used by those in power against those not, than a project should be shut down.

Will Johnson 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed










On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> [...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.

I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia "Reliable Source" as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers from Wikipedia to Wikinews is to be expected.

(I leave the rest of the case for others to debate).


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com

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