English Wikinews has been broken for a while. The entire system is predicated on the judgement of reviewers, and a handful of rather rude admins. I saw some rather aggressive posture and a pretty threatening demeanor employed towards others when I tried contributing early last year.
I once tried to submit an article on Wiknews a couple of years ago. It was something about a Blue moon on New year's eve at the end of 2009, the story at the time had a thousand legitimate sources on google news which apparently wasn't deemed notable enough by a reviewer, several hours later when the event itself had passed. Now, compared to contributing on English Wikipedia which has a much higher visibility rate, activity, and a giant repository of related articles, Wikinews seemed less and less relevant. The entire policy of editorial content on Wikinews is counter-productive when anyone can go and contribute to the larger sister project much easily. It's pitiful when you realize what it can be in the age of micro-blogging with a diverse contributor base like ours. We already have more reporter and contributors in every country than any news/wire service. We just can't figure out how to use it. Theo On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, Fajro wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile > > > > Chile non-western? > > Fixed! > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chile&diff=prev&oldid=448703219 > > > > > Oh, I took it to mean Western as in (Europe + USA). Cultural imperialist, I > know. > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l