On 06/09/11 13:32, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 6 September 2011 05:53, Shii<s...@shii.org> wrote: >> I am an American Wikipedia administrator living in Japan. Recently, as >> you may have seen on the news (but not Wikinews), Japan got a new >> prime minister. I watched his press conference and decided to grace >> Wikinews with this breaking story within minutes after it happened. >> The review process might delay it a few hours, but as it was 4AM EST, >> I figured Wikinews would probably still scoop Reuters and the AP. >> >> Five hours later (hmm, 9AM EST...), a reviewer finally looked at my >> article and failed me on one count: THE FACT THAT THE EVENT TOOK PLACE >> IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. No joke. He informed me that because the people >> at the press conference were not speaking English, and the reporting >> on the article was not in English, it was likely the article would not >> pass anyone's review. I asked for clarification on this astounding >> statement, requested another review for the article, and waited. > > While I agree this isn't a good situation to be in, I'm not sure what > the alternative is. The reviewers need to be able to understand the
I have been reading about this new "wiki" technology: http://c2.com/ Apparently, this "wiki" thing enables its visitors, even unregistered ones, to create new pages without any need for review! I therefore suggest that "wiki" is installed on Wikinews and that would solve all Shii's problems. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l