[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

Przykuta przykuta at o2.pl
Tue Sep 13 14:33:31 UTC 2011


> > And it's hard to gain authors if you have no readers because the texts
> > will only be of interest for a few days. If you write a news article
> > and noone reads it you have wasted your time. On Wikipedia however, if
> > you write an article you can rest assured that people will read your
> > text. If not today then in a year.
> >

Sometimes people look for old news, but our category system in Wikinews is not too good (alphabetical). Bugzilla knows this problem for years.


But - click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Random

and next use http://stats.grok.se/

Articles in en Wikinews are more popular, than articles in smaller Wikipedias

przykuta




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