[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[KIZU Naoko]

I'm hesitate to chime in, not only I've kept saying I'm on a wikibreak
- but I'm really on a break, my doctor said I had to give a full rest
and no new task anymore till the time allows again! - but also I'd
been inactive on Wikinews, but let me point some out.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:21 AM, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Only the English Wikipedia, and while en.wp is our most successful project
> so far, there are other successful Wikipedias that were formed only through
> community efforts with no paid editors.

1) Regardless how you esteem their achievement, Italian speaking
community decided to draw a line in "the area both Wikipedia and
Wikinews cover". They eliminated "Current Events" type page on the
Italian Wikipedia and any fresh ongoing things should be only accepted
onto the Italian Wikinews. (check your farovite Wikipedia "Current
Events" page to see if you find a link to the Italian equivalent).

2) Everyone has its own systematic bias. Major media too. Even on a
certain Wikinews edition short of original reports, carefully
synthesized media reports could help readership to widen their view to
the things falling out from major media available in their
language(s), if such is available on Wikinews).

On the other side, both media and publishers are doing more than
writing articles: there is a lot of things to maintain. Behind most of
major successful Wikipedias I'd point out such people behind the stage
are working, from the WMF staffers to Chapter paid people. It would be
a topic worth to discuss sister projects including Wikinews are being
paid attention as much as Wikipedia in regard of maintenance and
outreach.

Cheers,

>
>
> 2011/9/14 Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>
>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:17:49PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
>> > The elephant in the room in all this is that Wikinews lacks the critical
>> > mass of editors to overcome these issues.
>> >
>> > So...
>> >
>> > Producing a functional daily news outlet (website) requires a substantial
>> > full time staff... of course so does an encyclopaedia, but an
>> encyclopaedia
>> > doesn't have a weekly time limit on story completion... so we can adopt a
>> > more leisurely model.
>>
>>
>> Actually, wikipedia did have a paid full-time editor at bootup. Perhaps
>> wikinews needs something similar, and never really booted properly, due
>> to lack of it?
>>
>> sincerely,
>>        Kim Bruning
>>
>> --
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> foundation-l mailing list
>> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>



-- 
KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子
member of Wikimedians in Kansai  / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp