[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

[Asaf Bartov]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> On 10/2/13 9:04 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
>
>>
>> It might also be worth looking at Wikinews.
>> [..]
>
>
documents created on editing that might be useful for new contributors.
>>   Some one from Wikinews would probably be more than happy to customize
>> learning materials for the project to local needs.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Laura Hale
>>
>
> Great idea !
>

I think that would be setting people up for disappointment.  Consider the
high bar set out in Laura's own (recommended reading) essay on Wikinews:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/3/What_news_is_not

It is no less exacting than the norms of Wikipedia, and is not an obvious
companion to the much looser space Florence was describing in the original
post on this thread.

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