[Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

[CherianTinu Abraham]

English Wikipedia "In the News" section is sometimes no better in bringing a
"worldwide coverage". But often suffers from "*I didn't know it, So NOT
important*" attitude.
See a recent discussion "*[Posted] Anna Hazare ...*"  on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates/August_2011
The old good thing, unlike Wikinews, is that there are lots of active
participants for ITN on en.wiki.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> English Wikinews has been broken for a while. The entire system is
> predicated on the judgement of reviewers, and a handful of rather rude
> admins. I saw some rather aggressive posture and a pretty threatening
> demeanor employed towards others when I tried contributing early last year.
>
> I once tried to submit an article on Wiknews a couple of years ago. It was
> something about a Blue moon on New year's eve at the end of 2009, the story
> at the time had a thousand legitimate sources on google news which
> apparently wasn't deemed notable enough by a reviewer, several hours later
> when the event itself had passed.
>
> Now, compared to contributing on English Wikipedia which has a much higher
> visibility rate, activity, and a giant repository of related articles,
> Wikinews seemed less and less relevant. The entire policy of editorial
> content on Wikinews is counter-productive when anyone can go and contribute
> to the larger sister project much easily.
>
> It's pitiful when you realize what it can be in the age of micro-blogging
> with a diverse contributor base like ours. We already have more reporter
> and
> contributors in every country than any news/wire service. We just can't
> figure out how to use it.
>
> Theo
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, Fajro wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org
> > <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > > > non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile
> > >
> > > Chile non-western?
> > > Fixed!
> > >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chile&diff=prev&oldid=448703219
> > >
> > >
> > Oh, I took it to mean Western as in (Europe + USA). Cultural imperialist,
> I
> > know.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Morris
> > <http://tommorris.org/>
> >
> >
> > --
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> > <http://tommorris.org/>
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