[Wikinews-l] Rebooting the "Wikipedia invasion

[Brian McNeil]

> 2009/12/1 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
>         I've decided that now is a *very* appropriate time to, once
>         again, try
>         and restart discussion on Wikipedia paying more than
>         lipservice to
>         Wikinews as the appropriate venue for news coverage.
>         
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Brian_McNeil#.22Recent.22_templates
>         
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:35 -0500, Alexandr Romanov wrote: 
> The examples look good to me. One suggestion, maybe link "Wikipedia is
> not a news site" to WP:NOTNEWS ?
> 
I think this is a point for Bawolff to chip in...

There are a few special pieces of Javascript active on enWN which try to
detect incoming Wikipedians and caution them about editing on Wikinews,
i.e. articles are a "snapshot", not to be encyclopedic, &c.

IIRC the flow is as such:

1. User reads Wikipedia article, sees link to Wikinews article
2. User clicks link, reads Wikinews article
3. User selects to edit Wikinews article, a custom WP-specific edit
   intro is displayed.

Any intermediate steps between 2 and 3 will see the "Referrer:" lost and
the custom edit intro not displayed.

Oh, and as some will recall, {{Howdy} }[1] has a "quick guide" for
Wikipedians; I'd really love Jimmy and Mike Peel's input on this.



[1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Howdy



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