But George we do have pointers from Wikipedia to Wikisource, Wikiquote, and so on. Wikinews is sort of the red-headed stepchild of the entire collective. It's been going for years and yet only has 15,000 English-language articles. That's probably smaller even than Citizendium.
The failure is even more severe when a project is so small that it can be dominated by a clique of people pushing power-plays to silence opponents. That is simply in my mind anathema to our entire structure. When a club becomes an effective tool, used by those in power against those not, than a project should be shut down. Will Johnson -----Original Message----- From: George Herbert <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 1:16 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] Few to no Wikipedia articles > point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a Wikipedia "Reliable Source" as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having pointers from Wikipedia to Wikinews is to be expected. (I leave the rest of the case for others to debate). -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
