Then perhaps the blog posts were over-enthusiastic. There is a current discussion on this topic at the English-language Wikipedia, but not at the link Andrew gave: it is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#RFC:_New_subsection_under_.22Not_a_Newspaper.22_about_commentary
Rod On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, the Foundation does not have "policy on news across > its various projects". > > So the answer to your original question: > > > > Has the Foundation made a conscious decision to promote Wikipedia as a > > > > source of news, and if so, what were the results of its discussions > > with > > > > the Wikipedia and Wikinews communities? Will the Foundation allocate > > any > > > > extra resources to this effort? > > > > would seem to be this: No, there is no particular decision to promote > Wikipedia as a source of news. There have, however, been a number of blog > posts and communications celebrating Wikipedia's success at providing > relatively up-to-date and accurate information on current events. No > discussion with either Wikipedia or Wikinews communities took place, or > needed to, as this was just another aspect of Wikipedia being showcased on > the Wikimedia blog. > > As far as I can tell, the Foundation has not allocated any extra resources > to promoting Wikipedia as a news source. You are mistaking a couple of > blog posts to signify Some Grand Policy Change, but it is not so. > > Asaf > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
