But then wouldn't these local pages start to become biased? There would undoubtedly be many more Canadian editors at the Canada article than Americans, not in small part because of the redirect.
I really think there should be some way to integrate national news into the mainpage so it remains edited by all...
Mark
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:30:09 +0100, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
I'm not suggesting that we balkanize or limit to only locally relevant news...I'm just fine with the idea of en.wikinews.uk being a redirect to the English wikinews site, though that'd be a bit redundant. That's the good thing about wiki as a whole is that it gets over the local bias (the European bias, American bias, etc.) with so many contributors.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jens Ropers Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 3:53 AM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] start a new Wikipedia / Wikinews
On 31 Dec 2004, at 02:14, James R. Johnson wrote:
That's a good idea there...en.wikinews.uk or en.wikinews.usa sound good.
'''Oppose.''' Beware of balkanization. The above proposal would lead to a situation where people would not only just read about the so-called "locally relevant" issues that interest them, but it would probably very soon also lead to the respective wikis mostly containing the locally predominant POV -- which may be sharply at odds with the rest of the world. There are enough global media franchises whose "localized" products sell well enough due to added local slant and preselection. Our mission, I dare to believe, is to transcend these things and reach for higher goals.
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