Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Joseph Seddon
What are the examples of successful citizen news websites? What could we learn from them? On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:15 PM Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > One of the central problems of Wikinews is that the content is not > suitable for collaboration. > > Content suitable for collaboration is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
(Hit send too early).To my mind the larger problem is that the content becomes static over time, Rather than growing and evolving as it does with many of our more successful Projects. On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:25 AM Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Respectfully Disagree. They can formulate questi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Respectfully Disagree. They can formulate questions, coordinate and fact check answers... and that’s off the top of my head. That said I think wikinews is fundamentally not one is our success stories, but I don’t agree with what my friend Ziko said there. There are many roles for community there.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, One of the central problems of Wikinews is that the content is not suitable for collaboration. Content suitable for collaboration is related to a reality to which the collaborators equally have access. Think if an encyclopedia based on scholarly literature that (potentially) everybody can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-26 Thread Johan Jönsson
Den fre 26 apr. 2019 kl 15:36 skrev Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>: > You appear to have 66 sysops on sv:? ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Wikipedia), how well to you think > this system would scale up for an order or two of magnitude more? I think it would scale well

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-26 Thread Peter Southwood
You appear to have 66 sysops on sv:? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Wikipedia), how well to you think this system would scale up for an order or two of magnitude more? Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of