[Wikinews-l] Rebooting the "Wikipedia invasion

[bawolff]

Yes, that is correct. {{Editintro from wikipedia}} is shown to anyone
who hits edit from a page on wikinews, when there referrer starts with
http://en.wikipedia.org  which covers most, but not all (ex secure or
mobile wikipedia) traffic from en'pedia. (unless the article is old,
in which case {{editintro notcurrent}} is show). As brianmc mentions,
if the user browses around, the referer header is lost. See
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Javascript#Custom_Editintros for
the gory details.

As for wikinews articles on portals - there is a bot run/developed by
Miza13 ([[w:user:Wikinews importer bot]]) that copies various DPL's
from wikinews to various portal pages & templates on wikipedia. This
can be most commonly seen from [[Portal:Current events]] on wikipedia,
where wikinews content is displayed quite prominantly (I think Cirt
set that up, if i recall). Wikinews content is also dynamically added
to several other pages. most portal pages have a small this topic in
the news section, and some articles on major topics (typically major
countries) have a {{Wikinews}} like template that updates dynamically
by the bot.

Of course there is also the manually added {{wikinews|Some article
name}} template that is added by hand like the other sisterlinks
templates.

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As for this idea in general, I think this is a great idea, but we
should make sure to try and get wikipedians on board in so it doesn't
look like somebody from the outside is changing all these templates.

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- Bawolff
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million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.



On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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