For comparison: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
the twitter version: "Wikinews is half as active as Citizendium." - d. On 1 May 2016 at 17:45, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> hi jimmy, >>> >>> i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish >>> an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I >>> simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which >>> i find frightening. an editor for 10 years, tens of thousands >>> contributions, thousands of pages created, degree in journalism, >>> dissertation about news on wikipedia, administrator.[1] >>> >>> jimmy, as wikinews refers an old mail of you from 2003 as the holy >>> grail of NPOV, could you please clarify once and for all that your >>> NPOV statemant you sent to wikien-l was valid for wikipedia. and not >>> for wikisource, wikiquote, wikinews. best on the wikinews talk page >>> concerning NPOV [2][4]. i understand of course that certain publishing >>> standards might apply - but NPOV, and "sourced" in the sense of >>> published somewhere else cannot be amongst them [3]. >>> >>> just as a note, i hate that the blog [5] opens 20 times slower than >>> wikinews on my mobile phone, >> >> The blog is hosted by Automattic (known for Wordpress.com) in the same >> environment as high traffic sites like time.com or fivethirtyeight.com. >> You can file technical issues on Phabricator: >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/328/ or contact the blog >> team (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines ). >> >> that it is not in different languages, >>> >> It does support multilingual posts, e.g. >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/18/wikimedia-server-switch/ is available >> in 23 languages. > > asaf and others were so kind to point me to the statistics of > wikinews, only SIX persons contributing. this a nice private wiki now > - nobody would notice if it is set read only :) > https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/SummaryEN.htm > > still i think it benefits the movements software if you as WMF > communications team eat our own dogfood and publish on mediawiki. > wikinews might fit nicely as its target of publishing original texts > is closest - but anyway wiknews would need a policy change and the > bureaucrat(s) changed to allow such kinds of texts. if this policy > change revives its contributor base good. if not i'd agree with asaf > and others to just let it formally die, as it is already de facto > dead. > >>> that i do not have the "usual mediawiki features". i hate that >>> signpost [7] cannot be read on mobiles because of formatting. i hate >>> the glam newsletter [6] for the same reason, despite beeig again on a >>> different wiki, no "read in different languages". which is the main >>> reason i write this mail ... and asked joe why not using wikinews. and >>> i hate that wikinews does not use mediawiki features to properly >>> classify what quality an article has, e.g. "blog", "npov", etc. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Foxj&project=en.wikipedia.org >>> [2] >>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:Neutral_point_of_view#raphael_honigstein_and_outreach_blog_on_wikinews.3F >>> [3] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Pillars_of_Wikinews_writing >>> [4] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-November/008096.html >>> [5] blog: >>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/ >>> [6] glam newletter: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter >>> [7] signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
