We keep it because some people use it, some people contribute to it,
and it costs us very little to keep it going. All projects that are
useful and well used were at one point completely obscure, including
the English Wikipedia. That obscurity is not, of itself, a good reason
to delete the entire
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
[...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia Reliable Source as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers
should
be shut down.
Will Johnson
-Original Message-
From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
no outside
