English Wikipedia "In the News" section is sometimes no better in bringing a "worldwide coverage". But often suffers from "*I didn't know it, So NOT important*" attitude. See a recent discussion "*[Posted] Anna Hazare ...*" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates/August_2011 The old good thing, unlike Wikinews, is that there are lots of active participants for ITN on en.wiki.
Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
