Honestly, anything that has ever been started on meta for wikinews, has tended to fade into oblivian (for example WORTNET) I think a large part of that is since its not in local RC, no one sees it. I don't think a wikinews specific meta is going to change that. -- -bawolff
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Milos Rancic<[email protected]> wrote: > I think that we need such place for a couple of reasons: > * Meta is "too Meta" for our needs. We need a meta site which would be > regulated by Wikinewsians. > * All coordination will be moved to that site: this includes, but it > is not limited to: > ** Organizing bot work. > ** Organizing work related to cooperation: translations, contacts and similar. > ** Accreditation process should be moved there. > * In the future, we should make Template: namespace at that site which > would be used by all Wikinews editions. > * We may generate there a set of documents which would help to the new > editions how to start a successful edition. BTW, as a LangCom member, > a number of times I mentioned that not just localization of the > messages should be enough for the project approval. Wikinews edition > is the most problematic for approval because it needs constant work. > So, as a LangCom member, I would like to see defined rules by > Wikinewsians for new edition approval. > * Similarly to beta.wikiversity.org, Wikinews meta site may be used > instead of Incubator: It would be much better if the process of > creation of Wikinews edition would be monitored by Wikinewsians, not > by contributors with just Wikipedian background. (While it is good > enough formally to have contributors with just Wikipedian background > for all other projects, Wikinews has very different needs than one > repository of knowledge.) > * Optionally, we may use something like wiki.wikinewsie.org for that > purpose; but it has a number of limits. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
